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Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts, or eVTOLs, promise a futuristic vision of the world. One company, Pivotal, is taking a different approach with an eVTOL looks different from the rest of the market. Their ultralight consumer eVTOL weighs just 348 pounds, has eight propellers and does not require a pilot’s license to operate.
WSJ explores how Pivotal’s ultralight eVTOL works.
Kyle Chayka, a writer for The New Yorker, discusses how social media has changed over the years and why “normal people” have stopped posting their personal lives online.
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Over the past 45 years, few industries have changed as radically as Wall Street. From the rise of electronic trading to shrinking bid-ask spreads and increased regulation, the trading floor of the 1980s is almost unrecognizable today. In this episode of Experts By Decade, we sit down with three veteran traders to explore how the financial industry has transformed — and what it’s like to survive the seismic shifts.
In this video, we explore the unsettling implications of the increasingly popular philosophy known accelerationism, which, in some form or another, is quietly taking hold on the zeitgeist of the modern world. What does the future look like if technology continues to progress at the compounding rate it currently is? What is the end goal of technology’s seemingly unending and uncontrollable progress? Is it good for us? Do we even have a say in it?
Monte Carlo Simulation leverages the mathematical foundation of statistics to generate a spectrum of potential future outcomes. In scenarios where complex systems can’t be described in an explicit formula, they help us to model the world in the way it truly is, giving us insights into what might happen, how likely it might happen, and what the worst case scenario looks like so we can prepare for the reality (or realities) of the future.
They were supposed to vanish. The tech companies that once ruled the early internet, the portals, the dial-up giants, the banner-ad empires. One by one, they fell. Ask someone under 30 about Netscape, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, and you’ll get a blank stare.
But there’s one name, one name that still whispers through Wall Street terminals, YouTube charts, and Reddit threads alike.
You won’t find Yahoo at the center of Big Tech today. It’s not disrupting industries. It’s not making headlines. But somehow, when you search for a stock, check a chart, or peek at the market, you’re still likely landing on Yahoo Finance.
So how did this happen? This is the story of a product that outlived a brand. Of a platform that was never the flashiest or the fastest, but always, just there.
The video explores the rise and fall of early old internet companies, showing how most faded away while one still lingers. It touches on themes of tech history and internet history*, showing that not all companies can survive the test of time. The *search engine wars were a brutal battleground.
In his iconic 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the military-industrial complex—but that wasn’t all. He also cautioned against a growing “scientific, technological elite” dominating national policy through federal funding. What happens when science becomes politicized? When peer review rewards conformity, not discovery? And when government grants replace private innovation? This video dives into the hidden costs of federally funded science—and explores how private labs, bold inventors, and decentralized innovation have historically led to the biggest breakthroughs, from Edison and the Wright Brothers to Silicon Valley and AI labs today.
Step into the future of filmmaking with LiDAR technology! In this video, we explore how Leica Geosystems’ cutting-edge LiDAR scanners are transforming location scouting, VFX, and virtual production. From creating ultra-precise 3D maps to building digital twins for LED walls, discover why this might be the most important tool you’re not using yet.
When discussing classic Kodak point and shoot cameras, PetaPixel’s Jordan Drake remembered a long forgotten feature in a 2006 camera that pointed the way to smartphone cameras of the future. Let’s take a look back at the Kodak V570 and take some pictures with its follow-up, the V705.
In this video I discuss how Gimp 3 has finally had a stable release and comes with awesome new features that will save a lot of time with image editing like Non-destructive layer effects.