In 2010 Christian Rudder, one of the founders of OKCupid, started a blog to accompany his massively popular dating site. Called OKTrends, it was an under-the-hood look at the vast amounts of self-reported data he and his colleagues had access to as the administrators of a site where millions of people answered extensive questionnaires, filled out in-depth profiles, and messaged potential partners.
The Miami Marlins baseball team mascot is a large anthropomorphized marlin named Billy. Today, through the magic of social media, we can see Billy joined by a new friend — a three-foot wide pear with stubby arms and legs from Japan called Funassyi. Funassyi is a yuru-kyara. The term, and Funassyi itself, are Japanese: yuru translates to "loose" or "laid-back," while kyara is a shortening of the En
Pepper promises a lot. SoftBank’s ambitious android, announced earlier in the month, is touted as the world’s first robot that can understand emotions. And it’s not just a lab experiment — it’s on display in two of the Japanese carrier’s stores right now, and will go on sale to the general public in February for under $2,000. SoftBank says Pepper will be able to staff its stores, mind babies, and
By Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Here’s a simple truth: the internet has radically changed the world. Over the course of the past 20 years, the idea of networking all the world’s computers has gone from a research science pipe dream to a necessary condition of economic and social development, from government and university lab
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