Something Amazing

Matt's sitting in the King Chair and is very relaxed! In this episode - Matt tells Amberly about FIT - a new AI built for the fashion industry and how a serial killer was caught using a website you use to search your family history. Amberly tells Matt about the science of a favourite smell and how some bees were used to catch a big illegal pot farm.

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What an episode! We have facts from Japan, Instagram and a billionaire's mega factory.

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In this weeks episode: IBM has built the world's smallest computer and it only costs 10c! A man has a stroke and loses the ability to feel negative emotions, Google has a new bathroom mirror that can analyse your health and a woman's butt causes a plane to be grounded. How embarrassing!

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Matt tells Amberly a couple of a breakthrough in VR technology and how doctors are using the tech to practise surgery. Also, there's $1.5m up for grab in a Science competition to solve one of the world's biggest problems. Amberly tells Matt about a Scottish entrepeneur who tricked a major empire. Also, a country has turned off their entire internet for 5 hours for a very strange reason.

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It only took us until March to get to episode 2 of 2018 but we bloody made it! Matt tells Amberly about a startup that is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”. Also, Winograd Schema questions are things that humans find easy to answers but computers find them really hard. Test if you're a human! Amberly tells Matt the surprising artist behind Chupa Chups and reveals a corporate fraud that everybody can get behind!

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We're back for 2018! Amberly reports LIVE from NASA in a pre-recorded field trip. Matt tells Amberly about the worst inventions from the world's largest consumer electronics show. Also a lifesaving drone saved some kids from drowning over the holidays! 

Here's the videos of the inventions we talk about: https://futurism.com/ces-2018-most-absurd-technologies-to-come/

Here's the lifesaving drone video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzs-4yNyL58

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Every single fact is about Christmas and is AMAZING!

Merry Christmas,

Love from Matt and Amberly.

See you in 2018!

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It's our penultimate episode for 2017! Matt gives Amberly an update on the world of Biotech: meat free meat, cow free milk and a lamp made of mushrooms. Amberly is all doom and gloom this week - Facebooks emotional experiment, Rios decaying Olympic village and a really bad nights sleep.

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In this episode Amberly has a theme - and it's DOGS. There's even bonus dog facts! Matt tells Amberly about simulation theory, and how some Scientists believe they have disproved it. Also, police have invented a Pokemon Go style app to help find stolen cars.

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A new species of great ape has been discovered! Amberly tells Matt the amazing story of how reading some old Dutch papers lead to the discovery of a new species of Orangutan. Also, Amberly has a robot fact! It's all about the underdog helping clean up nuclear waste. Matt tells Amberly an animal fact about how cocktaoos are destroying the NBN. Finally, somone has built an AI to mess with scammers and it is brilliant.

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