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A baby giraffe is a “calf” and there’s one due any minute on this live feed.

Highly useful. Super cute. Signal of a dark dystopian future. These are just a few thoughts that came to mind when an AI lab at MIT put a robot to work in a labor ward.

Heard about the hottest trend in wearables? Live bacteria!

According to book publishers, you can forget all those stories about the death of the physical book — sales numbers are in and they can definitively say that print is the new Paperwhite!

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According to book sales data, consumers actually aren’t going all analog and showing how much they love paper — but you could definitively say that Amazon totally screwed over those book publishers.

A bowl of canned fruit. The clang of a dropped spoon. The waiting, waiting, waiting. Experience the existential angst of booting up an old computer.

Speaking of fruit, remember Peach? I don’t either. What’s interesting is that it got a lot cooler after it was declared dead.

Speaking of death, here’s a weird sub-culture.

And the re: the death of the NYC Taxi industry: It’s bigger than you think, it’s long overdue, and Uber’s the least of its problems.

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver