Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are undoubtedly changing the way we view the world. Finance, banking, identity, and privacy are all areas that are immediately and irrevocably affected by blockchain technology. However, I also believe that they may be just as disruptive as automation to the way we work. CRYPTOCURRENCY OPENS A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY FOR WORKERS, QUITE LITERALLY […]

The 90th Academy Awards saw Latin American artists and films take home some of the most coveted Oscars. Mexico’s Guillermo del Toro won best director and his The Shape of Water took the top honour for best film. Chile’s A Fantastic Woman was named best foreign language film and its star Daniela Vega became the […]

Soon after entering the glassy building across from the High Museum on Peachtree Street, visitors pass from the entryway and ticketing desk into an almost otherworldly passageway, compared to the gray concrete streets outside. Bright pink and orange pool noodles of various lengths stick out from the walls like tentacles, and as one continues walking, […]

Efforts to find sustainable methods of creating bricks has lead Lego to harness sugarcanes for plant-based plastic. Lego will begin using sugarcane-sourced plant-based plastic with the botanical elements of their play sets. These will be included in box sets, to be released within 2018 and onwards. The new bioplastic is called polyethylene which is soft […]

I’m up just a bit early. I have surveyed the news on the internet (as I always do when rising). The national news is full of articles on the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting. There are details about the shooter, Trump is expressing the opinion that teachers should be armed, students at that high school […]

Angela Merkel is about to discover if she can begin a fourth term as German chancellor or if she’s headed for another election. With stable government in Europe’s biggest economy at stake, Germany’s Social Democratic Party plans to reveal on Sunday whether its members have voted to extend their coalition with Merkel through 2021. It’s […]

You know how anytime you close the guidebook and step off the tourist path — like, say, when you bike through a town instead of just Uber-ing your way around — you see a place in a whole new way? A trip with Journey, a nascent next-gen company that organizes weekish-long volunteer vacays, is like that, […]

“I honestly thought kids were a lot stupider,” Maher told Hogg and classmate Cameron Kasky on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher tonight. “You’ve really given me faith that the kids today are actually very bright, way brighter than we were.” And that was before Hogg revealed that he hung up on the White House last week, offended that […]

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple’s stunning “spaceship” campus — official name: Apple Park — is giving some staff a headache and worse.  Apple’s giant, doughnut-shape headquarters building is wrapped in glass and there’s plenty more glass inside too, walling-off offices and meeting rooms — and workers literally have been walking into walls, CBS San Francisco reports. The walls and doors […]

Make the most of any clear skies near the end of the first week of this month as you don’t want to miss 2017 VR12, a space rock the size of The Shard in London that hurtles past our planet less than four lunar distances away on 7 March. Predicted to exceed magnitude +12 at its closest, this near-Earth asteroid […]