Issue 14

Ikea imagines the future of fast food. It's both a bug and a feature. Companies are betting on lab-grown meat, but none know how to get you to eat it.

Mar 20, 2018

🌭 THERE AIN'T NO MEAT IN DEM DOGS

If you had a choice would you prefer to eat bugs or test tube meat?

This week we have a couple of interesting links about the future of meat. We also cover condiments with a computer that's as small as salt.

Facebook had a tough week, but fortunately, you can still make an excellent living peddling fake news on the platform. The system works.

How many people fell in love with gaming because of Sid Meier? Civilization converted more people than Hick's Law, and the first part of the development story is in here.

Time to eat.

📰 From the Newsroom

Ikea imagines the future of fast food. It's both a bug and a feature.

A meatless hotdog is hardly futuristic.

mic.com

Companies are betting on lab-grown meat, but none know how to get you to eat it.

Simple: Just offer them the bug burger or the lab lunch.

futurism.com

♊ Scott Kelly spent a year in space and now he has different DNA than his identical twin brother.

I wonder if this qualifies him as an alien?

livescience.com

💡 Inspired by the electric eel this origami-folded hydrogel paper instantly generates 110 volts of electricity.

ieee.org

A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service, you just won't survive the process.

This is great if you are not committed to the here and now, but could be committed to the there and then.

technologyreview.com

🤖 Robots et. al.

🤖 Hacked retail robots can assault customers with porn and demand Bitcoin.

A pair of security researchers created ransomware that streamed porn, demanded Bitcoin, and then hurled abuse at customers. That's a weird reverse escalation.

This follows on from their earlier work where they exploited vulnerabilities to disable safety protocols in industrial collaborative robots.

vice.com

🕷️ Design & Development Arena

Smaller than a grain of salt, more powerful than an x86, able to track the shipment of goods and detect theft, fraud, and non-compliance.

IBM will reveal the world's smallest computer at IBM Think 2018. This puppy includes thousands of transistors and blockchainability. All while costing < 10c to manufacture. Woof.

mashable.com