In 1910, two beardy Belgians started a project: to collect the entirety of human knowledge in one place, and make it available to everyone. It sounds like they wanted to create Wikipedia or Google - but unfortunately, no-one had invented web servers or home…

We’re all (well, at least I am) getting pretty excited by what we see with ChatGPT and other large language models - it’s amazing progress in a ridiculously short space of time.

It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.

This post is just a quick summary of some replies I gave on Facebook recently, when people were asking questions that made it clear that the...

I’ve covered PC compatibility in the past, and tried to explain how just having an x86 CPU and running DOS does not necessarily make your machine compatible with an IBM PC. At the time, this …

Tracking config files

Normalize not making content out of random strangers.

Just got offered office space in San Francisco (SOMA) for the same price as 2009. Yikes.

An exclusive look at Wizards of the Coast's new open gaming license shows efforts to curtail competitors and and tighten control on creators of all sizes.

Imagine someone let you into an alien spaceship they landed in your backyard, sat you at the controls, and encouraged you to fly the ship...

How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.

Elevate your elevator etiquette by deselecting a floor button you hit by accident.

Some adventure game fans at Google wondered what would happen if you used the output from the classic text adventure game "Zork" as the input to Imagen, Google's text-to-image diffusion model. To support the results we wanted we made some additions to Zork…

Tools for synching and streaming files from Windows to Linux - google/cdc-file-transfer

some grunts at a meme cloud