We trust companies with our information every day. But many companies—even those that hold our most revealing information—are using it not just to provide the services we ask for, but to amp up their

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In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are expanding their control over the planet. His analysis is that, whilst material resources certainly matter, the real battle…

It was felled maliciously in the small hours of September 28th, aged around 300

BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers. Contribute to skiselev/8088_bios development by creating an account on GitHub.

Grâce au dernier catalogue du satellite Gaia de l'ESA, une équipe internationale, conduite par des astronomes de l'Observatoire de Paris - PSL et du

Old-school cathode ray tube TVs have become de rigeur in the retro scene as the true way to experience retro games “the way they were designed”. But there’s ...

In the post about GPT-4V, I mentioned the paper “Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People” (https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00289) by Brenden Lake, Tomer Ullman, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Samuel Gershman. In that seminal paper the authors suggested that…

Finding their barracks covered in mold after a deployment, soldiers built and programmed a network of mold-hunting sensors.

In the distant nethermists of time, documents once briefly ruled the earth (or at least Mac OS), and to that end I managed to find a verrr...

For their Uber Eats scam, the two men from Florida are now faing charges of 'organized scheme to defraud' and 'grand theft.'

For their Uber Eats scam, the two men from Florida are now faing charges of 'organized scheme to defraud' and 'grand theft.'

Plus a poem that a chatbot took ten seconds to write

See how far $1 from 1999 goes in 2023, using CPI data across 8 different categories

Over the last decade or so, Apple has been hard at work in simplifying the user interfaces that power its myriad platforms. I’ve welcomed most of that work, but it’s hard to deny that we’ve all lost some things along the way. Today, we look at a UI element…

2023 shaping up to be warmest year in NOAA's global climate record

The gavel has fallen; the cup has been stomped; pick your metaphor. Microsoft has succeeded in its almost-two-year quest to gobble up Activision. The peculiar side effect in my corner of the world is that Microsoft now owns the dusty remains ...