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Robots could be binge-watching Netflix in the next few decades Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix   Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters In a few decades, Netflix could be making shows for robots to binge-watch instead of humans, according to CEO Reed Hastings. “Over twenty to fifty years, you get into some serious debate over humans,” Hastings  said  during a talk at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “I don’t know if you can really talk about entertaining at that point. I’m not sure if in twenty to fifty years we are going to be entertaining you, or entertaining A.I.s.” This isn't the first time Hastings has talked about the future of A.I. and humans, and his vision of it would make an epic Netflix show. Hastings believes that in just 5 to 15 years, we won’t be able to tell if we are talking to a human or a robot,  he said last year . And that's when the story gets really intriguing. “Future of intelligence is a race brewing between carbon-based lifefor...

2 psychologists think taking selfies all the time could be a sign of a mental condition called 'selfitis'' Julián Gentilezza / Unsplash Two psychology researchers have written a paper suggesting that people who post a lot of selfies on social media may suffer from "selfitis." They surveyed 400 people and categorised selfitis into three groups of severity. Other researchers in the field aren't convinced that selfitis is real, with some labeling the study as "dangerous." We all have a friend whose Instagram feed is filled with pictures of themselves. Selfies are so ingrained in our lives now that we don't really see them as any sort of issue. But according to two psychologists, snapping selfies all the time could have a negative impact on our mental health. In 2014, a spoof news article coined the term "selfitis," saying that the American Psychiatric Association was going to start recognising it as a real disorder. Thr...

Apple just admitted it's slowing down older iPhones — but says it has a good reason for doing it An iPhone 6, which Apple released in 2014. Flickr/Yanki01 Replacing an older iPhone's battery can help it perform better on speed tests. That's because Apple is using a new power-management feature to prevent iPhones with older batteries from suddenly shutting off, the company told Business Insider on Wednesday. Apple says it isn't purposely slowing down older iPhones to encourage customers to buy new models, debunking a popular conspiracy theory. Over the past few months, people have discovered that  older iPhones curiously become faster  after the battery is replaced. That, of course, has fueled conspiracy theories that Apple slows down older iPhones when a new model comes out. Data  from a top iPhone benchmark developer  published earlier this week seemed to confirm it. But Apple explained on Wednesday why iPhones with older batteries might have...

The Swedish co-founder of Bitcoin.com has sold all his bitcoin    Emil Oldenburg, the CTO and co-founder of bitcoin.com has spent the past three years in Tokyo. Oldenburg is also the co-founder of Safello, a Swedish bitcoin exchange. Linkedin / Emil Oldenburg // Bitcoin.com Bitcoin is “virtually useless” and has no future as a tradeable currency says Emil Oldenburg, the co-founder and CTO of  bitcoin.com , one of the world’s largest bitcoin websites. Oldenburg has sold his bitcoins and believes others will do the same when they realize how illiquid the market is. He says bitcoin's drawbacks are high fees and transaction lead times - a heated topic of discussion in the community today -  and resistance to change from people running the old bitcoin network. Oldenburg believes there's a brighter future for Bitcoin Cash, a spinoff currency of bitcoin that is now being actively promoted by bitcoin.com. Bitcoin.com is one of the world’s largest bi...

The incredible story of Elon Musk, from getting bullied in school to the most interesting man in tech Matt Weinberger Elon Musk Reuters What can't Elon Musk do? As CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI, Musk seems to be everywhere all at once, pushing all kinds of incredible new technologies. He's said he  won't be happy until we've escaped Earth and colonized Mars . Between space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries, research into killer robots, and the billions he's made along the way, Musk is basically a real-life Tony Stark — which is why he served as an inspiration for "Iron Man." But it wasn't always easy for Musk. Here's how he went from getting bullied in school to small-time entrepreneur to CEO of two major companies that seem like they're straight out of science fiction — and how he almost went broke along the way.  This is an update to an article originally publishe...