Well this is awkward: TWTR board hired Goldman to "advise" it that the @elonmusk $54.20 offer is too low. Only problem: Goldman has a SELL rating with a $30 price target. Oops.

Teardown of a "date back" or "data back" camera and denoscription of how it works: A micro LCD projector with incandescent light bulb!

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Communicate with spirits using a Ouija board (powered by evil chatbots).

A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is.

Club Penguin Rewritten, a popular remake of the Disney-owned Club Penguin has been shut down in the UK. Three people have been arrested.

Sinking a major warship in battle is truly a rare event in modern naval warfare.

At Reddit, one thing we think about every day is how we can make it easier for people to find and engage in communities, content, and conversations. Over t

Support for developing in the Rust
language is headed toward the kernel, though just when it
will land in the mainline is yet to be determined. The Rust patches are
progressing, though, and beginning to attract attention from beyond the
kernel community.…

Former web developer Chris Willson has spent the last 14 years renovating a 293-foot “pocket” cruise ship he bought from Craigslist and hopes to transform it into a museum.

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Historically, “smart” TVs aren’t always particularly smart. They’ve routinely been shown to have lax security and privacy standards. They also routinely feature embedded OS …

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Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?

Russia wants to impose its brutal vision on its neighbour. That is everybody’s business

Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.

Oracle has begun making a new version of Solaris 11.4 available for free/open-source developers and for non-production personal use

The Pursuit of Thicker Desires in a Thinning World