Norway’s massive pension fund recently surpassed 5.11 trillion kroner, which is just slightly more than one million for each of Norway’s 5.1 million citizens. This must be that “planning” thing people are always talking about.
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App plays the sounds of a coffee shop so you don't have to actually go to a coffee shop
Web service lets you hear the ambient sounds of the cafe without having to be there
If you love the hustle and bustle of working at a coffee shop but are too cheap to pay for a $5 latté, there’s now an app that lets you get something close to the same experience in a “virtual cafe.”
Audi is developing self-driving, self-parking cars
2013 is finally starting to look like the future we were all promised (although no jetpacks yet). Watch as an Audi prototype car drives itself into a parking garage after a smartphone command from its owner.
In the future, women run the world and throw balls of yarn at misbehaving men: a film review
This is the weirdest fucking thing you will see today. “First Wives” is a short film made for the Ottawa Digi60 Film Festival that is ostensibly some kind of meditation on male and female power in society. However, it falters in its execution.
10 per cent of people believe the world will end in 2012, just as the Maya didn’t predict
A survey of 16,262 people in 21 countries finds that 10 per cent of adults think the world will end in 2012 as part of the Mayan calendar prophecy that has sold countless books and movies to the stupid and gullible.
All prostitutes will be super-efficient sex machines by 2050, say two academics
In a realization of every nerd’s wet dreams, all prostitutes will be disease-free sex robots by 2050. In a new paper titled “Robots, Men And Sex Tourism” in the journal Futures, two New Zealand researchers imagine a future Amsterdam that can still trade on its image as a “sin city” without the attendant drawbacks of […]
Would you buy a $60 lightbulb if it lasted 20 years?
Just in time for Earth Day, Dutch electronics giant Philips has announced a new super-efficient LED lightbulb that can last up to 20 years.