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Given GPU and patience, SVD can turn any image into a 2-second video clip.

Playing Warcraft in a browser, using a controller, somehow feels… okay?

Amazon Workspaces Thin Client is a Fire TV Cube with different software.

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Joy Buolamwini‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. As a graduate student, she made waves with a 2016 TED talk about [...]

Many of us have gotten used to being able to dampen unwanted sound, thanks to the noise-cancellation technology found in, for example, Apple’s AirPods Pro earbuds. But this tech gets you only so [...]

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Spencer Wright on antique apple parers, and how an old tool can force you to confront a problem anew.

George Cave on the evolution of Lego and the archeology of plastic.

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Hillary Predko on the strange and powerful Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer.

Surgery Simulation AMA with Andrew Edman

Notes on my winter’s visit to Larung Gar, one of the largest academies of philosophy in history.

A collection of postcards from the renowned anthropologist’s first fully illustrated picture book, “Postcards for Mia.”

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Richard Cytowic, a pioneering researcher who returned synesthesia to mainstream science, traces the historical evolution of our understanding of the phenomenon.

Use a little if you like its taste more than regular salt, but do not believe any of the hogwash about its health benefits.

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CRISPR has a problem: an embarrassment of riches. Ever since the gene editing system rocketed to fame, scientists have been looking for variants with better precision and accuracy. One search method [...]

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, has become a much-abused buzzword in the AI industry. Now, Google DeepMind wants to put the idea on a firmer footing. The concept at the heart of the term AGI [...]

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Security agency wants to resume critical CFATS inspections …

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