March 11, 2019 HQ Trivia’s first live event was ruined by people who weren’t in the audience HQ Trivia made “quiz-tory” this week when it hosted its first live, in-person game with a $10,000 prize. Host Scott Rogowsky flew into Austin,…
March 11, 2019 Robots are playing ASMR-infused techno at SXSW In 2012, Moritz Simon Geist left a promising career as a research engineer in Germany to build robots and travel the world playing music…
March 11, 2019 LG might sell a pod-based ice cream-making gadget in the future I wasn’t looking for pod-related gadgets, but, somehow, they found me. LG hosted a pop-up at SXSW this year where it showed off a…
March 11, 2019 Drone no-fly zones around UK airports are expanding this week Starting this Wednesday, March 13th, it will be illegal to fly a drone within three miles of an airport in the UK, up from…
March 11, 2019 NVIDIA will stop supporting 3D glasses in April Have you noticed that stereoscopic 3D is out of vogue, at least at home? So has NVIDIA. The graphics chip designer has unveiled plans…
March 11, 2019 CRISPR doc ‘Human Nature’ embraces the hope and peril of gene editing When making a documentary on something as groundbreaking and controversial as CRISPR, the gene editing tool that could potentially help us eradicate cancer, you…
March 11, 2019 NVIDIA buys high-performance chip-maker Mellanox for $6.9 billion NVIDIA confirmed that it has purchased Israeli chip-maker Mellanox for $6.9 billion, reportedly trumping a $6 billion offer made by Intel several months ago….
March 11, 2019 Spain halts plans to use electric shock treatment on violent inmates Spain is putting on hold a scientific investigation that involved zapping prisoners' brains with electricity to curb violent urges. A pilot study saw the…
March 11, 2019 The Morning After: Tesla will raise prices, but keep some of its stores We've got the biggest stories from SXSW over the weekend, as well as news on more suspicious cryptocurrency dealings (to paraphrase, it was an…
March 11, 2019 NBC’s free news streaming service will fully launch in May NBC has run a limited version of its streaming news channel for the past few months. Soon, however, it'll be ready to open the…