Speed hits loom, other OSes need fixes

There’s quite a lot of the buzz in the media already, I’ll try to explain the technical details in simple terms instead.

Bingo! #kpti #intelbug

In this 2016 GDC Europe session, PlayDead's Mikkel Gjoel and Mikkel Svendsen detail the techniques used to achieve high visual fidelity in the context of the uncompromisingly simplistic aesthetic of INSIDE, Playdead's follow-up to the critically acclaimed…

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If there’s one thing The Da Vinci Code’s Dan Brown and “The Library of Babel”’s Jorge Luis Borges have in common it is a love for obscure religious and occult books and artifacts.

Unwinding Scotch tape produces enough radiation to image a human finger.

This is an example of static electricity bouncing around a roll of poly film. Static electricity is generated during the manufacture of flexible packaging. LPS Industries, LLC @ www.lpsind.com

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One of my super nerdy interests include approximate algorithms for nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces. The problem is simple. You have say 1M points in some high-dimensional space. Now given a query point, can you find the nearest points out of…