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It is surprising how quickly the duopoly of iOS and Android, Apple and Google, became entrenched. At the 2007 iPhone launch event, Steve Jobs compared the touchscreen-centric iPhone UI with four ot…

The Turing Pi 2 cluster board is designed to provide you with the creative freedom to set up your own server, homelab, workstation, edge computing node, or whatever it may be.

🦜 Simple and powerful voice changer for Linux, written with Python & GTK - lyrebird-voice-changer/lyrebird

Laura Young thought she had gotten a deal. She then grew attached to the marble bust while she tried to figure out how to return it.

Last week, over 500 cryptographers from around the world gathered in Amsterdam for Real World Crypto 2022, meeting in person for the first time in over two years. As in previous years, we dispatched a handful of our researchers and engineers to attend the…

A key architect of myGov says he “despairs” at the lack of progress on the platform and that the outsourcing of the development of a new version to private consultants was a “huge mistake”. Labor last weekend promised to launch an audit of the myGov program…

Economist Mark Zandi says now isn't the best time to buy a home, with most housing markets showing signs of overheating.

Complete guide to the Amiga.

I’m currently applying for a master’s degree in computer science (MSCS). I thought I might share my experience here for other people in the same boat as me. My boat is that I’m a …

we should have a $25 minimum wage; anyone working full time deserves to live comfortably and $15 doesn't do it. obviously it will cause some severe disruption but one lesson of the last couple of years is we can adapt to labor changes.

Impostor.

Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.

Today I’m writing some short thoughts on how to design solutions or decide on actions when you face a new problem.
TL;DR constantly ask yourself what you are trying to do. One of the main lessons I’ve learned in this short time working in research (as an…

A report sent to the House of Commons ethics committee shows that Canadians' movements, including trips to the liquor store and pharmacy, were closely tracked via their mobile phones without their knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic.