Technology

How worried should you be about artificial intelligence?

Source: BBC

View the infographic to gauge the danger-level and likelihood of potential AI scenarios.

The Kepler Space Telescope is About to Run Out of Fuel

Source: Futurism

The Kepler Space Telescope is facing retirement, but its nine year life has given humans amazing discoveries of Earth-like planets.

What it Means to Build Without Bias: Questioning the Role of Gender in Architecture

Source: Arch Daily

In her thesis project, graduate student Hannah Rozenberg created an algorithm to measure how male or female physical spaces are and created architectural models of gender neutral spaces.

People Are Paying Insane Amounts of Real Money for “Virtual Real Estate”

Source: Futurism

Would you buy a virtual plot of land if it cost more than a plot of land in the real world? Read about the booming virtual real estate market.

When Romeo Is a Robot

Source: The Atlantic

After observing a mechanical “couple” that was created as an art installation, one viewer writes about how technology might affect the mystery and destiny of love. Watch the video embedded in the article to view how the two robots interact.

Exoplanet Travel Bureau

Source: NASA

Explore artistic impressions of the surface of three exoplanets discovered by NASA’s telescopes.

New Study Says We Could Be Alone in the Universe

Source: Mental Floss

Are humans the only intelligent lifeforms in the universe or have aliens remained undiscovered due to limited data sets? This article presents both sides of a question that many find impossible to answer: Are we alone?

A 12-year-old app developer

Source: TED

Kids today have access to a form of expression their parents didn’t: developing digital games and apps. Hear from one young developer about how he accomplished his initial goal and what’s next.