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The Visual Computer - In this paper, using both hand-drawn and computer-drawn graphics, we establish a method to generate advanced Escher-like spiral tessellations. We first give a way to achieve...

We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision.

Julian Assange’s fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan - the former foreign minister who called Assange a “miserable little worm” in parliament.

Watch ‘The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ here!

Prepare for a wild ride into the reality-bending universe of ‘The Matrix’, featuring performances by Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss.

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The latest version of Firefox is now available and includes an important step forward for web browser security.

Judges are reassured by US promises to reduce the risk of the Wikileaks founder taking his own life.

[This post discusses the Derek Parfit paper ‘Equality or Priority?’, and honestly, you would benefit more from reading that paper than this post if you want to really get into the weeds of the priority view. That being said, the paper is fairly long, and…

A hundred and twenty years ago, divers discovered a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in Greece. What they found changed our understanding of human history.

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism has captured the imagination of archaeologists, mathematicians…