i'm almost sure somebody had already posted the video about the pervious concrete, but is always amazing to see it working.

Not high tech , just spacey.

A video of the the nightsky - with the stars fixed and the earth rotating. Which is, of course, what actually happens.

k00l

Meanwhile, Microsoft enters the AI fighting ring with Tay, an AI handling a twitter account where it learns from conversations it has !
Much to Microsoft's sadness, making an AI is a harder task than they thought, they realised it when it started tweeting messages like this
http://4cdn.hu/kraken/image/upload/s...gPsH9f4Ys.jpeg
Seriously, it got to the far off extreme right within a day :lol:
“Ricky Gervais learned totalitarianism from Adolf Hitler, the inventor atheism.” :lol:

Edit : some quotes from reddit
Spoiler:

This is both hilarious and frighting.

AIs can be whatever you train them to be.

This is a dark reflection of google giving their AI the dataset of youtube and it quickly learning what a cat was.

Just talked with my father about this, he said it's the same phenomenon than with tourists, the first things locals teach them are swearwords. Also, the programmers must feel like s**t, you spend years coding and perfecting one of humanity's oldest dream, only for peple to f**k it up in a day :lol:

Yup. but paradoxically it sort of shows it was a success. It did learn, and even if what it learnt wasn't very nice it did produce grammatically correct sentences.

Thats pretty cool despite what the sentences actually meant.

Anyway in other news MAGIC!..err..I mean Magnets;

https://hackaday.com/2016/03/21/just...re-mechanisms/

So, apparently Telsa Motors just took over 200,000 pre-orders for their new electric car.
I'm not a car guy, but umm...that seems kinda a lot.

Their new car is $35,000, which is far cheaper/more mass market then their previous stuff, and goes 200 miles on one charge.

The other cool thing is;
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...up-to-the-hype

I don't like cars in cities... They take up space, they are dangerous, noisy and pollute the air... An electric solves ~2 of my problems, so I'm all in favour of them :D

Mr Musk must be a happy bunny right now. His car orders are now upto 300,000 and his space rocket firm - SpaceX - just pulled of the first sea-landing of a rocket.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/718605741288894464

Oh, and doubly cool - that rocket was the one delivering the inflatable habitat to the ISS.

Nice write up here about the current situation on the ISS:
http://www.space.com/32528-spacex-dr...e-station.html

A whole bunch of cool stuff there.

Wow, this is cool;


Kinda creepy watching them self-assemble.

Do you want to create Venom? Because that's how you create Venom.

http://static2.comicvine.com/uploads...ddie-brock.jpg

I always think Ferofluids look like venom;

Then again, cornstarch moves more like venom;

I've never seen cornstarch move like that before, that's mental!

Also my next christmas tree will be made out of ferrofluid :D

Have a mentioned Augmented Reality before? Did I ever mention we are going to live in a half virtual world?
Because we are.

http://www.wired.com/2016/04/magic-leap-vr

(Long but lots of cool stuff in that article)

Also, new MagicLeap video;

Love the message at the bottom.

That's cool as fuck. My only concern is that by the time this comes out of these decades of beta or whatever I'll be too old and possibly blind to be able to enjoy it. (there were awesome demos like this one from year 2004! why is it not out and about yet?!)

So I'll be happier knowing they develop bionic eyes alongside this AR technology.

Theres things better then the 2004 demos out now - Its $3000 for the Hololens or $1000 for the Meta Glasses. So its there, its out (just). Just a bit pricey.

The MagicLeap stuff is weird though. They have made fake images that behave like real ones at different focal depths.

Needs independent confirmation. And its just one of a few processes that needs to be defeated, but still;
http://bioviva-science.com/2016/04/2...t-human-aging/

wow.

Holy shit! OMG. They actually managed to thicken the DNA ends so we don't get genetically unstitched. Actual tears in my eyes there. :')

I knew you were the guy to complain to about getting old and blind. You never fail to deliver. :)

And Microsoft do something really cool for once - they have released a standard AR API for Windows10;
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-u...pment_overview

Sort of expected, but confirmed now. Basically, they have opened up their Hololens platform. This means;
a) Anyone can build Hololens compatible headsets and they will run the same applications.
b) Coders can write a app for any device supporting the standard without worrying about supporting specific devices.

This is similar to OpenVR - which is what Valve is pushing for VR (but in that case I think you have to use Steam).

I'm massively in favor of this as it means hardware will develop quicker, and (I am sure) a lot more sales will be made.
Right now if your buying a headset there is a worry about compatibility. Some games work on some headsets but not others.
This is nuts.
It should be like a computer Monitor - you don't have to worry about games not compatible with your monitor do you? :P

Its also now making the Oculus Rift look a bit bad from a software stance. They are taking the "Apple approach" of it all being closed down. Its more like a iOS app store then a PC device. You buy a game you need to run it on the Rift. You have a Rift? Well you can only run games in our store.
Similar Sony is coming out with a VR system which is likely also closed.

So, yeah, sorry - I hope they either change their policies or die off :P I want standards darn-it.

AR wise, MagicLeap, meanwhile, hasnt said much. I assume its a open Android system which is "ok" but it would be much cooler if they made it also compatible with Microsofts open standard.

Just, wow!

Now that you mention VR, no E3 thread this year DF ?

Sure, why not.