Day January 25, 2017

Raspberry Pi just got some serious competition

Makers and DIY-ers now have a shiny new computer to build things from.  Asus just launched the Tinker Board, its own version of a single-board computer — a form factor popularized largely by Raspberry Pi. Engineers and educators use these…

3D TV is officially dead

Sometimes the consumer electronics industry tries to sell a new technology that consumers thoroughly reject — and as a result, it goes on the trash pile of products that were "before their time," to put it nicely. Here’s a great…

What’s the Speed of Dark?

Illustration: Jim Cooke/Gizmodo Welcome back to Giz Asks, a series where we ask experts hard questions about science, technology, and humanity’s future. Today, we’re wondering about the “speed of dark,” and for that matter, the scientific nature of “speed” and…

Why It Matters That Human Poker Pros Are Getting Trounced By an AI

Image: Carnegie Mellon University We’re at the halfway point of the epic 20-day, 150,000-hand “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” Texas Hold’em Poker tournament, and a machine named Libratus is trouncing a quartet of professional human players. Should the machine maintain its…

What marijuana really does to your body and brain

Reuters/Fredy Builes Marijuana’s official designation as a Schedule 1 drug — something with “no accepted medical use” — means it is pretty tough to study. Yet both a growing body of research and numerous anecdotal reports link cannabis with several…