Because soon robots will play all our sports for us, this is a video of Morpheus, a giant table tennis playing robot made by Omron that uses AI to actively analyze an opponent’s playstyle and adapts in real time in order to humiliate them. Nice try, robot, but I’m used

This is a video of Mark Zuerkerbrek (if you spell his name wrong he can’t track you on Facebook) demonstrating the latest iteration of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses during a developer event and the glasses failing to cooperate. In the first scene, he can’t manage to answer an incoming call.

This is a 3D visualization created by Youtube channel RED SIDE featuring the evolution of the fastest wheeled vehicles from 1898 to present. It’s pretty wild to think there was an electric car that could do 39MPH in 1898, and one that could go 65MPH by 1899. Then electric vehicles

Using nanolithography, Dr. Kelly Morrison and her team at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England have created the world’s smallest violin, measuring only 35 microns long and 13 microns wide. For reference, the average width of a human hair is about 50 microns. Damn, that’s one small violin! Unfortunately it’s not

This is a video created by filmmaker Travis Bible using Google’s AI video generator VEO 3 to demonstrate just how convincing AI-generated video is now, and how it can be used to create deceiving news, or scam people out of their money. These are terrifying times we live in. I

This is a clip from the BBC’s ‘The Secret Genius of Modern Life’ explaining why sausages work to use touchscreens (I thought it was because they look enough like fingers to fool the screen), and how touchscreens actually work. Whatever happened to magic being an acceptable answer? Hidden beneath your

This is a video of former NASA engineer Mark Rober pitting a Tesla’s camera-based autopilot feature against a Lexus’s LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, which uses lasers to measure distances and create 3D maps) to see which operates safer. The Lexus passes all six tests (stationary child in road, running

After losing his left eye to cancer, machinist Brian Stanley decided to make lemonade and created a titanium prosthetic with an embedded adjustable color LED flashlight (controlled by waving an RFID ring in front of it) so he can illuminate the darkness wherever he goes (or look like a Terminator).