No one messes with Engineer Man and he showed a scammer who was boss with his nifty coding skills.
Time: The History & Future of Everything (according to Kurzgesagt)
We all need perspective every now and again and Kurzgesagt gave us just that. Time is relative they say. It’s more of an excuse for procrastinators and unpunctual than quantum physicists. But many of us lament the lack of time we have. The Kurzgesagt YouTube channel was created in 2013 and mainly cover scientific topics …
Scientist Duo Win Nobel Prize for Helping the Immune System Fight Cancer
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel prize for their efforts “harnessing the cancer patient’s own immune system to destroy tumours”. A cure for cancer remains elusive but two immunologists have won science’s most prestigious award, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their work in cancer immunotherapy. Allison discovered a molecule that halted …
Earthbound In Space
YouTuber Krazy Contraptions sent their SNES copy of Earthbound to the edge of space and it’s out of this world (pun intended). If you could send anything into space, what would it be? Earth to Sky Calculus provides that service using a helium balloon, allowing you to send almost any object to “the edge of …
Hero Nation’s Gaming Warriors Need Your Help!
Michigan organisation Hero Nation want to inspire the future through Gaming Warriors, an eSports video game scholarship program. But they need your help. Video games get a bad rep in the press but they have helped to develop and educate so many people, crossing social and cultural barriers through the idea of communities. Unfortunately, many …
Let’s Build! – ODROID-GO + New Project News
The Retro Future reviewed the ODROID-GO a week ago and now has one of his own. But he’s not the only one…
What is ASMR and why does it give people “brain orgasms”?
If you like getting tingles, you’ll love ASMR. Here’s a quick primer on the physical sensation.
How to make your own meme generator
Memes fuel the internet and now you can create your own meme generator. From “Is This a Pigeon?” to the Distracted Boyfriend, memes are everywhere. We all want to join in and share our own sense of humour through these formatted images and now you can create your own memes with a bit of coding. …
Now You Can Simulate The Universe With IllustrisTNG. Sort Of.
The IllustrisTNG universe simulation is helping cosmologists study dark matter and other cosmic mysteries. We hold the universe accountable for a lot of life’s changes. Some of us even “speak” things into existence with its help. But there’s so much we don’t know about that infinite vastness we call the universe. As cosmologists and physicists …
Choco Mountain: The History of MK64’s Most Infamous Track
I’ve never tried a speedrun of any game. Especially Mario Kart. But I love watching videos about them. The sheer dedication and meticulous planning are endearing. MK64 is probably my favourite racing games of all time and one of the reasons I don’t have the discipline to do speedruns is because my go-to character is …
Create Your Own Working Pokédex!
Ever wanted your own Pokédex that detects Pokémon in the wild? Adrian Rosebrock’s might have the answer. Using deep learning, Adrian Rosebrock is turned a Raspberry Pi into a Pokédex. He trained a neural network to identify Pokémon using a dataset of 1191 Pokémon images. And its accuracy? 96.84%. The build itself uses a Raspberry …
Steve Schoger Gives A Masterclass In UI Design
I love UI design and because of that, I hate when popular services have bad UI on their sites (*cough* YouTube). Steve Schoger is a Canadian designer and in this episode of Refactoring UI, he redesigned a topic page for a website called Bad About. The original design is cramped and clunky but when Steve finishes, …