🚙🛩 New Japanese Flying Car Gets Off the Ground, For About a Minute
“Japan’s government wants the country to become a leader in flying cars after missing out on advancements in technology such as electric cars and ride-hailing services. The country’s technological roadmap calls for shipping goods by flying cars by around 2023 and letting people ride in flying cars in cities by the 2030s.”
🔮🍩 How I Get It Done: Astrologer Susan Miller
The world’s most famous astrologer writes your horoscope at Dunkin Donuts.
🐗 🐗🐗 30–50 Feral Hogs (And Many More Memes About Them) Have Taken Over Social Media
In case anyone needed context for why exactly your timeline was filled with feral hogs yesterday.
🎥🇨🇳 Chinese Vlogger Who Used Filter to Look Younger Caught in Live-Stream Glitch
Things I did not know were happening in the world:
“China has more than 425 million live-streamers and the use of face filters is common.”
“Live-streamers are discouraged from broadcasting in a public sphere, and are extremely restricted on what they can say… consequently, many live-streamers simply sing karaoke in their bedrooms, or eat snacks for hours on end.”
🤯 Neuroscientists Decode Brain Speech Signals Into Written Text
“With a radical new approach, doctors have found a way to extract a person’s speech directly from their brain.”
“The breakthrough is the first to demonstrate how a person’s intention to say specific words can be gleaned from brain signals and turned into text fast enough to keep pace with natural conversation.”
“In its current form, the brain-reading software works only for stock sentences it has been trained on, but scientists believe it is a stepping stone towards a more powerful system that can decode in real time the words a person intends to say.”