Fascinating essay about AI.

This is a company worth watching. Sounds too good to be true, and if true it could be really a game changer.

I'm at 35/45.

This is a completely impractical, unaffordable, probably crappy product. But it has a very high cool factor and I'm a sucker for gadgets. So in my book this is one of the coolest gadgets available today.

This looks just like the thing the Mossad would use. I wouldn't have thought this were possible.

This changes the economics of ultrasounds... if it works.

This is what happens when CS students have too much time in their hands even though they don't have any spare time in their hands.

Ars Technica to the rescue.

This is an essay that a very small subset of the population will find extremely funny, and the rest won't understand.

Many believe that water scarcity due to population growth and climate change would be a central factor in future conflict. For Israel specifically, it's a huge source of tension with neighbors. Here's a technological solution to prevent this. As they say: Necessity is the mother of invention.

"Israel now gets 55 percent of its domestic water from desalination, and that has helped to turn one of the world’s driest countries into the unlikeliest of water giants."

"...the national water authority built innovative water treatment systems that recapture 86 percent of the water that goes down the drain and use it for irrigation — vastly more than the second-most-efficient country in the world, Spain, which recycles 19 percent."

That's a pretty long list of signatories.

It's interesting to me that most people don't consciously know the unreasonable lengths Apple will go to deal with some detail nobody ever thought of.

This is extremely cool technology.

This nonprofit wants to take the Google Lunar X Prize (GLPX) competition and make Israel the fourth (after the U.S., Russia, China) country to land a spacecraft on the moon.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Mac. Apple put up a really nice site for it. My first Mac was a Macintosh Plus in 1987. I was a little kid doing stuff on it that no one else could do: desktop publishing, illustration, sound editing... It was a gigantic leap from anything else at the time and it completely changed computers forever.

Surprise, someone actually did the math to prove that curved TVs are a useless gimmick.

$35 with three months of free Netflix ($24) means you can justify this toy for $11. I'm addicted to gadgets and I'm fighting myself hard to keep me from buying this. I simply do not own a TV where I can plug it in. My only TV is attached to a Mac mini. And still I want to buy one.

In case you were wondering what to give me for my next birthday.

Interesting article on how Estonia leapfrogged most countries in the world in their usage of technology.