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25+ Star Wars Memes for Aficionados of the Force (February 21, 2024)

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Weird Al created a song called «The Saga Begins,» an epic homage to the story of Star Wars set to the tune of «American Pie» by Don McLean. And the world was never the same. Weird Al has long captured my heart and tickled my …
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30+ Hilarious Sci-Fi Memes to Fill Your Nerdy Needs (November 27, 2023)

One of the ways I celebrated my long Thanksgiving weekend was by watching Terminator 2: Judgement Day in theaters with some of my pals. I had never seen it, and an old movie theater in town was doing a special late-night screening. I haven’t seen the first Terminator, but I hear the second one is better anyway. It …
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30 Hilarious Sci-Fi Memes to Fill Your Nerdy Needs (October 30, 2023)

For many years, sci-fi imagination could only be realized by movie studios with budgets or highly skilled visual artists. Now, with the proliferation of AI and image-generating technology, everyone can have their most outlandish ideas realized. An Italian robot that only runs on high-quality Sicilian olive oil? You got it. An alien made out of …
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20+ Memes If You’re Feeling Extra Anxious About AI Technology Taking Over

The idea of something new taking over the planet can be daunting and alarming. Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, is changing the world rapidly. Chat GPT is a form of AI that knows how to answer endless questions, write grade A+ college essays, and draw images of things you’re curious about. If you’re interested …
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DALL-E Is Making Crazed AI-Generated Art Pieces That Speak Volumes About The People Behind Them

If you’re somebody that spends a lot of time on certain corners of Twitter, you may have recently found your feed clogged up by a particular type of monstrosity. I’m not talking about the latest flavor of ridiculous discourse, or that one guy you follow who is the living definition of a desperate need to …
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Compelling Reasons Connecting Everything to the Internet is a Mistake

Ever look around and get the sense that we’re living in some sort of techno-dystopia? We get it—sometimes it’s cool to have lights that you can dim from your phone or a watch that tells you how many calories you burned, but maybe the ‘Internet of Things’ has gone too damn far. Once you start …
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Amazon’s Alexa Tells Child to Touch Live Electrical Plug With Penny

When a 10-year-old girl asked Amazon’s Alexa to give her a ‘challenge,’ her mother was shocked when the device told her daughter to ‘plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs.’ Sounds like something an evil possessed appliance straight out of Maximum Overdrive would say. …
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Twitter Bot That Describes Memes Gets it Comically Wrong Every Time

Neural networks are artificial networks of neurons that are the backbone of deep learning algorithms. They’re basically simulated brains that have the capacity to ‘learn’ from datasets. If you remember those trippy ‘deep dream’ images that were going around several years ago, those were generated using a neural network. But not only is this sort …
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Jamba Juice Robot Gets Dunked On For Failing Miserably At Its Job

If we’re really living in the future that the tech bros want and we’re getting automated out of our jobs, you would hope the machines that replace us at least do things properly. Well, bad news for any juice mixologists out there: it looks like the robots are coming for you, but they don’t have …
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