One idea people seem to be pushing is the idea of moving to Mars and even terraforming the planet to be habitable for humans. While the idea sounds pleasant, it’s so unrealistic it’s flat out impossible. The biggest reason for terraforming Mars being an impossibility is magnetic fields or more...
The whispers of a computational revolution grow louder, yet the path ahead remains shrouded in quantum uncertainty. Quantum computing, a technology leveraging the bizarre principles of quantum mechanics, promises to tackle problems currently intractable for even the most powerful supercomputers. But as researchers inch closer to building stable, error-corrected quantum...
The idea of starting life anew on Mars has been well-researched and studied by many experts and scientists. While there are many things to work out, seeing this idea in action seems more doable every year, especially with all the money and resources that people are willing to put into...
Every Spring and Fall season, like clockwork, phone manufacturers roll out the newest model. People race to buy it, even if their current phone still works fine. It’s not always about better features — it’s often about feeling like you fit in. Having the newest phone tells the world you’ve...
Of all the applications that AI can be used for, insect tracking is something that is most unexpected. Research and development has been done with AI to incorporate it against the ever-present issues of diseases found with mosquitoes. In continents like Africa, mosquitoes pose a significant danger to animals and...
Having a smartphone that can make calls, check emails, surf the web, give you directions, translate different languages and do just about everything else you need when out in the world is a major convenience that has opened doors for a lot of people to expand their lives. While these...
The App Store currently hosts hundreds of note-taking apps for bullet journalers, visual thinkers, doodlers and people who like physically writing their notes but don’t want to lug around notebooks and keep track of what thoughts live where. Note taking apps that connect to a cloud service takes care of...
The efforts that people make to save endangered species have always been huge undertakings, as losing an animal to extinction is tough to see. Sometimes, it almost seems like certain species are doomed to die off, which was the concerning theory for the longest time when it comes to the...
The thought of implanting robotic enhancements into our bodies has always been a concept of science fiction, but things like Neuralink and other projects hit us with the realization that this is now a possibility. More specifically, putting a microchip into our brains is in early development and might be...
If you want to get into digital art, there are plenty of apps you can choose from on both Apple and Android. If you were wondering where to start, here are a few apps plus their features to help guide you. Sketchbook is a classic across both Apple and Android...
When talking about the recent developments of space travel and its technology, we are often contemplating the future of discovery that lies throughout the stars and what new boundaries humanity is ready to break. However, it seems that the recent space flight of an all-female crew has generated discussions that...
While the iPad and Apple Pencil don’t need much hype to make sales, people buying these electronics may be focusing on the potential the duo have instead of what they offer. Of course, art and writing apps are great on the iPad, as they’re the perfect mixture of the satisfactory...
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