Monohm’s Runcible “Anti-Smartphone” Available for Pre-Order

Introduced last year, Monohm’s quirky yet refined anti-smartphone, the Runcible, has finally hit the pre-order stage. Monohm originally planned to put the Runcible up for pre-order a year ago, but software snags left the company scrambling for a back-up plan. Now on track to hit the hands of users worldwide, Runcible is available on Indiegogo for $399 with a ship date slated for September. It’s …

Symposium Stockholm 2016: Eugenia Kuyda

The founder of Luka, an artificial intelligence company, explains creating a chatbot to honor her best friend

When Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend Roman passed away last year, it was the first time the CEO of Luka lost someone so close—and she was unaccustomed to experiencing such grief. Luka, which Kuyda founded, is an artificial intelligence company that builds conversational bots, chatbots, and was the first company to publicly launch an English-speaking chatbot based on an artificial neural network. Roman was a start-up …

Researchers Discover Vast Underground Cities in Cambodia

Using cutting-edge laser scanning, archaeologists in Cambodia have just discovered massive underground cities near Angkor Wat. The massive subterranean cities, presumed to be roughly 900 to 1,400 years old, stretch across a staggering 734 square miles—about the size of Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Experts believe that the new discovery will dramatically change the longstanding theories on how the Khmer Empire was developed. Head to The …