Building Jarvis

Remember Jarvis from IronMan? Meta is already working on 3D glasses with augmented reality and they are planning to build Jarvis. If you are a Unity 3D developer, you can join the team!

Oil and electric cars

TIL that electric cars are not new. There are here for more than a century, but the worst news is that the pollution by electric cars are more than conventional ones.

A bonus link on oil, pricing and usage in the US.

Good News You May Have Missed in 2014

Bill Gates gives you the good news that you might have missed in 2014, and none of them is about Microsoft.

Air Fares 101 – Why do fares change all the time?

A very nice article that helps you understand why the fares change all the time (and if you are smart, you can figure out how to book at the reduced fare)

Fly anywhere within the world in just 4 hours!

This new plane can take you anywhere in the world in just 4 hours. Additionally it can fly in the space too! From Science Alert

Zurkerberg dislikes the idea of an "Dislike" button

Facebook is considering buttons other than "Like", but "Dislike" is not one of them. Zurkerberg dislikes the "Dislike" button and thinks its "not good for the world".

Animals that self-medicate

While humans choose to eat "junk" food to get diseases, animals choose to eat medicine to heal itself.

Your smartphone is powerful than NASA's spacecraft

NASA's new ORION spacecraft has PowerPC 750FX processors - the ones that were used in 2003 Apple iBook. With that little processing power, they could launch a spacecraft. With lot more power in our smartphones, we are launching some angry birds at egg-stealing-pigs. hmmm.

You can't win the game. It exists only to destroy the mind

Simple game. Sort of inception. A world within a world within a world within a world ...

Try it.

A Dual Screen phone

Seems like a naive idea, but having dual screen on a smart phone is good. Esp, when the second screen is e-ink, its lot of fun than you can imagine. Here comes YotaPhone.

Verge reviews YotoPhone 2.

Captcha redefined

When Captcha was introduced in Yahoo Briefcase, the artificial intelligence was not that great. But now the algorithms are smart enough to read the distorted text - sometimes, better accuracy than humans. So Google is experimenting interesting ways of differentiating humans & automated tools.

Explained in animated gifs: How the Jet Engine Works?

A wonderful animation of how the Jet Engine works. Have a look at other Animagraffs by Jacob O’Neal.

Why do we invent technology?

Not just to speed up the typing of "I'll be there soon" in our mobile. But also to make Stephen Hawking talk. SwiftKey guys say that "the aim was to enable him to write and speak with greater ease for longer periods and minimise typos". And they were able to double the rate of his speech.

Well done!

Amazing robots at Amazon's warehouse

Santa’s workshop isn’t at the North Pole. Its at an Amazon warehouse near you.

Here is a video of those robots in action:

So you thought learning to code is simple?

Learning code might be a nightmare: Take it from a software engineer.