Downtime
June 2017
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Your robot overlords part 46: Software never lies
- Editor in chief 26 Jun 2017 -
End of the Piers humour
- Community Member 22 Jun 2017 -
Beer, pee and charge phone
- Managing Editor 13 Jun 2017
As we all know, software and artificial intelligence is going to run the world and make all the decisions on our behalf, probably starting from a week next Tuesday. Downtime has long felt it is our ...
It’s been over a year since US robotics designer David Hanson made Sophia an internet phenomenon with a video in which he accidentally prompts her to agree to destroy all humans. The UK got a ...
Among those ever present first world problems is how to keep your phone charged - especially if you are out on the razz. The University of the West of England may have just the answer. It has ...
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Appocalypse how?
06 Jun 2017 -
A little less covfefe
01 Jun 2017
Apple opened this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference with a video speculating what the world might look like if all the apps used on their devices suddenly disappeared. As all the big guns, ...
Donald Trump has written a new page into the book of Twitter folklore with his now deleted classic, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. The garbled message, surely reaching for the word ...