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The Future Is Now
the future is now
May 17, 2024
ChatGPT Gets Real
You can now have a pretty normal conversation with an AI bot. Is that fun or terrifying?
By
David Pogue
the future is now
Dec. 5, 2022
That AI Chatbot Wrote a Pretty Decent
New York
Article
Is this the end of journalism as we know it?
By
Intelligencer Staff
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Nov. 8, 2017
Uber and NASA Want to See You in a Flying Taxi by 2020
Uber is calling it “ride-sharing in the sky.”
By
Madison Malone Kircher
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Aug. 26, 2016
This Terrifying Robot-Snake Surgeon Could Save Your Life Some Day
Say
ah!
By
Madison Malone Kircher
July 5, 2016
Japan’s First VR Porn Festival Was So Popular It Had to Be Shut Down
Too many bodies.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
the future is now
Dec. 18, 2014
Amazon Offers Manhattanites One-Hour Toilet-Paper Delivery
Among other “daily essentials.”
By
Margaret Hartmann
the future is now
Nov. 17, 2014
NYC Plans World’s Largest Free Public WiFi Setup
Now you’ll truly never have to look up from your phone in public again.
By
Jessica Roy
the future is now
Sept. 29, 2014
Julian Assange Appeared in Nantucket Via Hologram
He’s still stuck in the embassy.
By
Margaret Hartmann
the future is now
Sept. 25, 2014
Filmmakers Can Start Using Drones in the U.S.
The FAA is expected to approve their use on film sets.
By
Margaret Hartmann
the future is now
Aug. 12, 2013
London Orders Company to Stop Spying on People With Recycling Bins
Still spying on you: everything else in the world.
By
Dan Amira
life imitating minority report
Aug. 9, 2013
Things That Are Spying on You: Recycling Bins
A brand of recycling bins in London tracks what you’re doing, thanks to your phone.
By
Dan Amira
the future is now
Apr. 25, 2013
Manhattan Still Has All the Underground Cell Service
Now in 36 stations.
By
Joe Coscarelli
the future is now
June 25, 2012
NYC to Get Free Subway WiFi This Summer
In certain stations.
By
Noreen Malone
the future is now
Dec. 2, 2011
Facebook Engineers Are Coming to New York
Like, to stay.
By
Noreen Malone
the future is now
Oct. 16, 2010
Four Million People Around the World Are Now ‘Checking In’ on Foursquare
The very chic Wijono S. of Jakarta, Indonesia, marks the milestone.
By
Mike Vilensky
robot cars
Oct. 9, 2010
Google Creates Cars That Drive Without People in Them
Right.
By
Mike Vilensky