Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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