It’s massive, spanning twice the solar system, yet it’s so tiny it required never-before seen levels of artificial intelligence to map out and 8 entire observatories to picture. It’s a black hole in the centre of a nearby galaxy. Designated Messier 87, M87 for short, the black hole is located…
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Evolution of the Chatbot
The artificial assistant has been around for some time now, since the mid-90’s Clippy for Microsoft Office. Today’s version is much more intelligent, and we helped it get there. Today we see them everywhere, as in-store assistants, as sales representatives and even as medical helplines. The chatbot has become so…
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Pewds, Words and Campo Santo – Part 2
(This article is co-written by Morphman and Wil Morris) Well it’s been a few interesting days for internet cock-ups. The long ‘DaddyOFive’ case ended with them taking “Alford pleas to two counts of child neglect”, US conservative Republican Ted Cruz ended up in confused waters on Twitter because of a…
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Pewds, Words and Campo Santo
(This article was co-written by Morphman) The last year has not been great for PewDiePie, AKA Felix Kjellberg. He ended up in the deep do-of-dos earlier in the year when his Hitler jokes rubbed the wrong people up the wrong way. Long story short, he made Hitler/Nazi jokes in a…
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Largest Ransomware Cyber Attack, Could it have been prevented? – Thoughts from the Cyberverse
On Friday 12th of May 2017, the largest cyber attack in history took place. Over 74 countries saw government systems held ransom by online thieves. Among the affected were the British NHS, which was all but shut down for several hours and had vital services shut down for more than…
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Does Watch Dogs 2 get hacking right?
Watch Dogs 2 is out and one thing that stands out with this installment in the series is the hacking. After a lot of complaints from people playing the first installment, the developers consulted real hackers for the sequel, but does it show. It is a rather important element to…
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Star Trek Technology in Real Life – Bionics #StarTrekTember
Bionics are referred to in Star Trek several times, but with only two exceptions, we don’t actually see it. The two exceptions are Geordi Laforge’s visor and just about everything about the Borg. It seems as if bionics in the future mimics human (or alien, depending) body parts as closely…
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Star Trek Technology in Real Life – Auto Pilot #StarTrekTember
In the Star Trek universe, it would seem like you don’t need much input from a human to drive something as complex as an interstellar ship. We can at several occasions see someone on the bridge take manual control, indicating that the controls are usually automated. The helmsman is inputting…
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Star Trek Technology in Real Life – Warp Drive #StarTrekTember
Of the many fictional and theoretical Faster Than Light (FTL) travel methods, Warp differs in that it does not instantaneously take you to your destination. In order to travel faster than light, you either have to bend space itself to create a wormhole or change your own mass to be…
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Zappar Revisited – A talk with the founder
I got to talk to Zappar CTO and Co-Founder Connell Gauld about the company’s past, present and future. It was a bit of a fan moment for me, as Zappar was what introduced me to Augmented Reality a few years ago. Introduction to AR I first saw AR when Green…
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