Engineer Dave Sieg has spent the last 20 years preserving the only working Scanimate, an analog motion graphics machine that was the staple of film/tv animation in the 70's and 80's. Dave discusses the technical and cultural impact of the Scanimate and what…

Many don’t understand why they should be concerned about surveillance if they have nothing to hide. It’s even less clear in the world of 'oblique' surveillance, given that apologists will always frame our use of information-gathering services like a mobile…

Millions of people have bought into the idea that cryptocurrencies could make them rich, fast. But these booms are fake, say economists, and they may now represent a systemic risk.

I’ve spent nearly twenty years blogging, giving talks and releasing open source code. It’s been fantastic for my career, and a huge amount of work. But here’s a useful secret: …

The Framework Laptop is now shipping—and reviews are impressive. See why "It's the ultimate Right to Repair Laptop," according to PCWorld.

“No way did I realize how difficult it was going to be to try and get people to come to work these days”: CEO of CSX.

Nature Biotechnology - Rice and potato plants are more productive after epitrannoscriptome engineering.

Further adventures in JavaScript

While it has often been said that there is no such thing as bad publicity,
the new owners of the Audacity
audio-editor project may beg to differ. The project has only recently
weathered the controversies around its acquisition by the Muse Group,
proposed…

This is one of my favourite essays from my MA in Translation Theory and Practice. The MA certainly focuses more on the theory side of translation which is evident from this essay. The point of the essay was to compare

A documentary travelogue through aging virtual worlds.

Today, we are introducing a revised privacy policy to address the concerns raised with the previous privacy policy published earlier in July. The original policy, which was drafted in anticipation ...

Windows 11 contains some quite drastic and visual changes compared to the good-old Windows 10. After installing Windows 11 preview builds, which are

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms are increasingly developed in health care for diagnosis and treatment of a variety of medical conditions ([ 1 ][1]). However, despite the technical prowess of such systems, their adoption has…

The birds can bust open garbage lids—and the behavior is catching on fast, which could be a sign of social learning

Today I'd like to share some math connecting ideas from information theory, algebra, and topology. It's all in a new paper I've recently uploaded to the arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09581), which describes a correspondence between Shannon entropy and…

“We're in a science fiction novel now that we are all co-writing together.”