YouTube says that it has over 100 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute. That means, 6,000 hours of video every hour and 144,000 hours of video every day. So much! Too much!
Google expects further growth thanks to the rise of mobile devices. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently said that number could even grow to 6 or 7 billion users.
You might want to think twice about relying on making Google Voice calls from your computer. For those who have updated Google Talk in their Gmail accounts, it's easy to select "Try the new Hangouts". Some are reporting now that its impossible to place or receive Google Voice calls from the inbox.
When you think of bacteria, you think of some kind of hairy microorganism seen under a microscope, with an intent to hurt you. But this picture above isn't anything like that. It's art!
This picture depicts how the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus moves over time. It is for a competition in the Art of Science run by Princeton University. Mingzhai Sun and Joshua Shaevitz recorded the paths of the bacteria showing how it moves, and hunt, which happened over the course of four hours.
Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal. Reportedly an all cash acquisition, Tumblr will maintain control of its operations.
It will come a time when we might just be able to upload our brains to the Internet. In fact, there are many who are already thinking about this.
People like Ray Kurzweil have predicted that singularity will be reached, and it is the moment when machine learning will surpass human intelligence. Science fiction movies like the new thriller Upload don't thread along a new concept, it's just a something that's been long thought out for a long time already.
There's going to be more wearable tech coming out, now that Google Glass has gotten the ball rolling. This one here is called CastAR. and it takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face.
Self driving cars will come soon enough. But not before they undergo further testing and some more crowd brainwashing that its better to have one than to drive it yourself.
Still, the cost of a self driving car isn't going to be cheap. If its not coming from this 19 year old schooler at least. He was given an award for developing an artificial intellegence that will dramatically lower the cost of self driving cars.
On top of viruses and malware, one has to worry about the possibility of ants coming to eat your motherboard.
According to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, ants nicknamed “Tawny Crazy Ants” and actually named Nylanderia fulva are working up a threat for your electronics.
One day we're all going to be replaced with robots. The first are probably fashion outlets. Because who needs a human to fold a shirt now that a robot can do it.
ROS Industrial put together this highlight reel of its robots in action. And one of them can do just that. Of course, the demo is meant to show off what it can do, and not actually replace someone just yet. But given time, you can bet we'll be seeing more of these machines in stores.