Forget Dollar Shave Club; Buy the Same High Quality Razors for a Third of the Price

Time to get off Gillette’s 4750% profit margin razors. The Darco Pace 6+ gives a superior shave and buying the replacement heads doesn’t make you feel like a chump.

Lyft > Taxi

$20 off coupon for Lyft is in effect: TWENTY Now’s a good time to try them out for a ride if you haven’t before.

The Awareness / AI Box Experiment

“On the eve of a technological breakthrough, an insignificant janitor and a prominent engineer are faced with a decision that will alter the course of humanity.”

IBM invests $1 billion to promote Watson’s cognitive technologies

Impressive new stats from Watson (3yr / 24x / 90%): 3 years after its triumph on the television quiz show Jeopardy!, IBM has advanced Watson from a game…

Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

DeepMind is now getting superhuman performance on certain Atari games with Q-learning-based reinforcement learning. Their new architecture outperforms all previous approaches on six out of the seven games they…

Body maps show where we feel emotion

Engineering and psychology researchers in Finland investigated where we feel and don’t feel.

Largest Randomized Diet Trial Recruiting Volunteers Now

If you want to lose weight in 2014 but haven’t selected a diet, maybe you shouldn’t… Why not just sign up to get assigned a random diet to…

Awesome new sleep/wake assisting device debuted at CES

I attended CES this week and this is probably the product I’m most personally excited about. Alarm clocks are known to be damaging to cognitive performance, and are…

Scientists closer than ever to making artificial intelligence a reality

CBS may oversimplify the issue some. But they’re also right. AI is inevitable, and it’s really only a choice of *how* and not *if* we eventually design advanced…

FutureMed: The Future of Health

Can We Stop Worrying About Millennials?