Stressed Lizards are all Thumbs

Amazon shares some interesting numbers, XBox and PS4 networks saved by Kim.com and more weekly geeky news.

Stress makes us work harder for pleasurable rewards, but doesn't make us appreciate them more - Boing Boing

A new study from researchers at the University of Geneva suggests that while stress can cause us to work very, very hard to achieve rewards, being stressed out doesn’t help us enjoy those rewards.

Amazon Sales Update

The gift-giving season was very good to Amazon, judging by the

Facebook's “Your Year In Review”

It may not be possible to reliably pre-detect whether a person wants to see their year in review, but it

Google Algorithmic House Numbers

Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that

NASA 'Emails' a Socket Wrench To the ISS

Sarah LeTrent reports at CNN that NASA just emailed the design of a socket wrench to astronauts so that they could print it out in the orbit.

Thumb Typing Is Changing Our Brains

Smartphones are changing us, at least according to researchers at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich. It seems that as we moved from phones with buttons

The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots

If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won

Illusion Coating Hides Objects

Researchers have developed a new ‘illusion coating’ that could hide things by making them look like something else or even completely disappear.


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