The offshore industry is one of the biggest ones in the world, and even though it was severely affected less than a decade ago, today it is worth close to 40 billion dollars. The experts are suggesting that the market size will get close to 60 billion by 2025. To be able to keep up […]
You know how going on a first date usually feels like dipping your feet into an icy cold river of anxiety and self-doubt coupled with a growing hatred for whatever gender you’re attracted to? Well, what if while you were feeling all these things, you were able to carry a device that scientifically measures how […]
Technology is amazing, and so are the people who create it. That’s why many movies have been made about the folks behind the scenes in the tech industry. Whether you’re a super-geeky software development outsourcer (like the ones found at BairesDev), a device fanatic, or just someone who likes a good story, consider these films next […]
Going to the gyno is a lot like going to the dentist for me. I hate the process, the tools, and the chance that I have a cavity or an irregular PAP smear. Either way, something is getting drilled or frozen off and there’s a co-pay. Now, there’s a robot gynecologist coming to hospitals and clinics […]
A study commissioned by the sex shop Bondara and some crazy scientist named Dr. Ian Pearson says that soon we’re all going to be having sex with robots. Apparently, this is something “futurologists” (and geeks) have been thinking about for a while. They published an entire paper with lots of random predictions about all the weird shit we’re going […]
Almost 170 years go, Karl Marx talked about the future of automation and what it could mean for the economy and politics. Despite the fact these musings, found in his journals entitled Grundrisse weren’t published and translated into English until 1973, the famed German philosopher and economist- turned political icon had some pretty interesting theories […]
Because we all don’t have enough things to worry about, Dr. Kathleen Richardson, a “robot ethicist” at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, has launched a campaign to ban the creation of “sex robots,” calling the technology both “unnecessary and undesirable,” because once they complete their takeover, people will only want to have sex with sex […]
Taylor Swift, lithe-limbed fount of feminism and sunshine, brought out Julia Roberts and Joan Motherfucking Baez as her “surprise” guests this past weekend in Santa Clara. Let that sink in for a moment. Joan Baez, activist, folk singer of songs about union organizer Joe Hill, was called up on stage to dance next to Julia […]
