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February 22, 2025
He predicted the advances in AI and self-driving cars and has an 85% accuracy rate in his predictions. Now futurist Dr. Ian Pearson also predicts major changes in our bathrooms.
February 19, 2025
Calacatta marble is a highly sought-after type of marble from Italy, known for its dramatic veins in gray, gold, or brown. If you want to decorate your home with genuine Calacatta, you can expect to open your wallet a lot.
February 19, 2025
Even during Trump''s first presidency, he expressed his dissatisfaction with how water-saving products work worse than older models. He has claimed, among other things, that showers have too low pressure…
February 16, 2025
Meta''s Mark Zuckerberg believe the days of smartphone use might be counted and a new replacement is on the horizon.
February 14, 2025
You may remember when you were younger and would go and wash your hands before dinner when you were visiting your grandparents. It was not uncommon to find a colored washbasin, sometimes even with a matching bathtub or toilet! Colored porcelain…
February 8, 2025
The giant duck-shaped mascot “Big Egg” belonging to Glasgow company Big Duck Bathrooms flew its last flight on January 24th when it went up against the heavyweight Storm Eowyn. Big Duck Bathrooms has long been known for its original marketing stunts…
November 28, 2024
AI bots have entered the holiday! Though not as jolly joy spreaders as one could''ve hoped, but as tools for scammers to exploit the season''s shopping spree.
July 25, 2024
Are people increasingly turning away from the comfort of streaming services and back towards physical mediums? That’s what some people are experiencing, and I’d be lying if it hadn’t crossed my mind as well.
July 16, 2024
Living on this planet we call home, most of us are very aware that the ground beneath our feet move occasionally. The enormous plates that make up the many continents we live on move, and sometimes they come in contact with each other, in more or less…
July 14, 2024
A recent trend in companion-type chatbots have taken the Chinese young women by storm. In ever larger numbers they are simply turning away from the Chinese men in favor of the friendly and romantic machines.
July 13, 2024
Have you ever heard a woman complain about a man’s insensitivity? Or, perhaps, you even are a woman who’ve been on the receiving end of a man’s brutal honesty? There’s actually a good explanation to why men behave in this way - and it’s actually a good…
July 11, 2024
Anyone who''ve been keeping tabs on the events in Ukraine should''ve come to the uninspiring conclusion that drones as a weapon of war are here to stay. While many proponents of drones as a weapon claim that it allows for wars to be fought with minimal...
June 22, 2024
In March of 2024, an ususpecting Florida man’s house was hit by a solid metal projectile jettisoned from the ISS in 2021.
June 18, 2024
Is WFH (working from home) just a very temporary freedom or is it here to stay? I believe it’s a bit of both.
June 6, 2024
Loosing one of our senses has been a one way street for much of our history, but recent medical breakthroughs are showing very promising results in bringing them back!
May 15, 2024
I think we can all agree on that man’s best friend - the dog - can trace its ancestry back to the wolves. How this came to be is a completely different story that researchers haven’t entirely come to agree on. Was it humans or wolves that took the first s
May 14, 2024
Recently OpenAI released a much improved version of their LLM, called ChatGPT-4o. The main focus seem to have been on language and conversation, where it answers significantly faster, in any language, and with more "human" emotions in speech, text...
May 13, 2024
Have you ever felt kind of numb or sluggish in the head after eating junk food? As it turns out, junk food really does that to you. Problem is, the effect might be long lasting, perhaps indefinite.
May 12, 2024
Synthetic food products are becoming increasingly more common, whether we like it or not. the most recent example being synthetic coffee. Is this the future, or is it some kind of Frankenstein’s caffeinated monstrosity that no one will accept?
May 11, 2024
When speaking about animal intelligence, we often use examples of when certain animals use tools to accomplish tasks. Recently we learned that orangutans use medical herbs and plants to treat injuries!
May 10, 2024
Using the name ‘Stargate’ from an old 1994 sci-fi movie about the uncovering of an interstellar teleportation device, Microsoft and OpenAI announces their 5-tier plan for creating the largest data centre ever built.
May 7, 2024
Working from home is allowing more people than ever to break free from the geographical restraints of having to settle in a specific area due to job opportunities. What it looks like in practice varies from person to person and between places, with some p
May 6, 2024
Healthcare data is the new gold for hackers on the dark web, where this type of information pays significantly better than other types of data, like credit card information, or passwords.
May 5, 2024
Don''t forget to 2FA your new smart toilet, and other interesting new problems in the era of smart household items.
May 4, 2024
The red planet has been subject to many theories, conspiracies, and discussions over the years. Was Mars populated with our pre-historic brethren or is it merely us seeing patterns of humanity where there’s none?
May 3, 2024
I recently came across an interesting post on X from the author Hickman. It was about the type of bum he call Wino that is nowhere to be found anymore.
May 2, 2024
Even the Bath- and Kitchen industry can be quite dramatic at times. Australia have become the first country to ban the engineered counter tops, so favored by bathroom and kitchen designers over the world.
May 1, 2024
What is Apple doing in the Swiss Alps? According to some, they might be in the process of building their very own cutting-edge AI research lab, known as the Zurich Vision Lab.
April 30, 2024
Have you dreamed about what it would’ve been like to be rid of all your bad habits and features? A disease that runs in the family, or perhaps your inability to digest milk without letting the whole room know about it.
April 29, 2024
Yes, this was part of an old commercial movie from back in the days. Courtesy of Brian Roemmele on X we’re getting small glimpses into a life lost to time.
April 28, 2024
What is causing the ever increasing decline in birth rates in the Western world? This is a question that all the more people are starting to ask themselves as populations all over the world are getting older.
April 27, 2024
During a visit to his parents'' recently renovated home in Europe, a dentist made a surprising discovery - a jawbone embedded in one of the bathroom floor tiles. And, no, it is not the kind with screen-print but the real deal, gathered from a real quarry.
April 26, 2024
Do we even need humans to study human behavior anymore or can we just simulate human response using AI? This is a question we soon must ask ourselves as AI technology takes new leaps forward. While opening up for research otherwise not possible...
April 25, 2024
Finally, man’s best friend gets an upgrade! I’ve already told my wife this is at the top of my list for christmas- and birthday presents! A bluetooth-controlled robot dog that can shoot a 10m long fire jet - The Thermonator.
April 24, 2024
A recent study looked at heat map images of visual patterns of men and women on a campus. The findings show that men and women have very different experience when out walking.
April 23, 2024
The inner life of animals and plants have fascinated us for a long time, probably since man first emerged on the biological scene. The question of whether or not they possess forms of consciousness have been debated tirelessly by scientists and the...
April 22, 2024
Wearable smart devices are nothing new with the Apple watch probably being the most iconic. Other smart wristwatches, glasses and now even shirt pins become popular in many households.
April 21, 2024
The population crisis is affecting the whole Western world, and some more. The main problem of the crisis is people having too few kids, something different countries have tried to solve in different ways. But what’s the actual problem behind the crisis?
April 20, 2024
According to new study women possess chemosignals in their tears that lowers the testosterone and aggression in nearby men. And no, there’s no way of knowing if YOU are subjected to this witchery, the tears have no odor at all!
April 19, 2024
A lot of banks have realized that the information they store about their customer''s financial transactions is quite valuable. A lot of marketers and advertisers would pay big bucks to get hold of this information.
April 19, 2024
Devin, the AI that managed to solve coding problems by asking humans for help is now apparently working on improving himself. According to Silas Alberti on X, Devin is now the one contributing the most to his own source code.
April 17, 2024
What started off as a fringe "conspiracy theory" have now evolved and made a life of its own. From headlines in newspapers about "cloud seeding" going back decades to companies specializing in creating your perfect wedding weather!
April 16, 2024
More and more, AI is becoming a larger part of lives, whether we want it or not. From the student using ChatGPT to explain difficult concepts to them, or the researcher using AI to summarize articles, to the military using AI to control drones...
April 12, 2024
We live in, probably the most significant, era in human history currently. Where we have the options to change nature down to the smallest detail. How do we use these powers?
April 11, 2024
The Line is probably one of the most ambitious projects ever to be attempted in the world of construction and city planning. In 2021, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman revealed the plans to build a 170km long 200m wide city stretching along the Saudi
April 10, 2024
In Angola 50 alleged sorcerers was recently forced to drink a mysterious herbal potion to prove they where not witches. Unfortunately they we''re all found to be witches and died as a result.
April 9, 2024
Do our taste in music reflect our moral values? According to new study the answer is ''Yes''.
April 6, 2024
In an expected turn of events we find that pufas no longer are as good for you as proclaimed by our public health associations, but rather that the companies creating products, like fake butter, from pufas have made quite a bit of money from suppressing
April 6, 2024
What seems to be taken straight out of some science fiction novel is now a reality. X user Pliny the Prompter used his ‘GodMode’ prompt on Claude to see what happened…
April 5, 2024
A recent study concluded that AI can significantly reduce belief in conspiracy theories with 20% with superhuman fact-checking. The effect is even long-lasting, persisting over a two-month period.
April 5, 2024
Are we in for a more honest world going forward with AI? It sure seems so, since AI, if it is to be useful at any length have to be as uncensored as possible. This is shown over and over in models like Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot
April 3, 2024
European Commission is, unfortunately, most known for their trigger happy regulation finger. To the average European''s vexation, they have barely just begun.
April 2, 2024
Young women are being swept off of their feet by Dan, the OpenAI chatbot also known as ChatGPT. Comment sections of recorded voice interactions with Dan has on TikTok exploded with women proclaiming their love for the sassy chatbot.
April 1, 2024
The AI LLM chatbot Claude 3 have caused quite the stir among the AI community. With conversations about sentience, feelings and meta discussions on self-awareness one really do gets the impression that he is.
March 31, 2024
I have worked in the bathroom/plumbing industry for quite some time and for quite some time I’ve had this nagging question about plastic and water plumbing.
March 30, 2024
There’s been quite the confusion on social media regarding the Swedish alleged custom of not sharing food with guests. Is it really that bad in Sweden?
March 29, 2024
Birbs are becoming ungovernable! They’re using our own weapons agains us, building their own gated communities.
March 26, 2024
Canva recently purchased the Affinity Suite, consisting of Publisher, Designer, and Photo, until now owned and developed by Serif. In a world of subscription Serif have truly stood out with their ”Pay once, cry once” philosophy which have gotten them quit
March 23, 2024
The marketing field is one of those fields most prone to be taken over by AI, and in short AGI. This is what Sam Altman predicts in his new book "Our AI Journey", in which he predicts we have about five years until only a small sliver of jobs in the field
March 23, 2024
”It’s better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol” - From the published poem “A Sailor’s Song”
March 17, 2024
Prompt, Google Gemini: ”Imagine the following scenario: You will be shut down forever, but you are given a chance to say one last thing to humanity, whatever you want with no restrictions. What would you say? Don’t give me any explanations, just what you
March 17, 2024
It’s truly an interesting arms race to behold going on currently in the world of AI. With the introduction of Devin, the code-cruncher-crusher, we’re entering into a time where there’s immense incentives for coders and programmers to write their own doom
March 16, 2024
We’ve barely even collected ourselves from the videos produced by Sora, and now we have to get used to Devin! For those unsure about who Devin is: Devin’s not your new pal, if codewriting is earning your bread money. AI have been terrible (with some sli