Collaborate Disseminate
Unanimous AI’s founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a “wave” of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly “as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives”…
“[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live ou… Continue reading Futurist Predicts AI-Powered ‘Digital Superpowers’ by 2030
In the world of showing off, there is alongside ‘Does it play Doom?’ that other classic of ‘Does it play Bad Apple?’. Whereas either would be quaint in the context …read more Continue reading Bad Apple but it’s 6,500 Regex Searches in Vim
As this year’s most influential tech event comes to a close, I’m reflecting on the products that left the biggest impression on me – and that I’d spend my own money on. Continue reading Three CES 2025 products I’d buy as soon as they’d take my money
“JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank’s return-to-office policy,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, acc… Continue reading JPMorgan Chase Disables Employee Comments After Return-to-Office Backlash
Telephone systems predate the use of cheap computers and electronic switches. Yesterday’s phone system used lots of stepping relays in a box known as a “selector.” If you worked for …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The 1951 Telephone Selector
“Nuclear you can trust,” reads the web page promoting “The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.”
Yes, Enron.com is now announcing “a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.” (A quick reminder from CNN in December. “A company that makes T-shirts bou… Continue reading Enron.com Announces Pre-Orders for Egg-Shaped Home Nuclear Reactor
When we reviewed the iFixit FixHub back in September, one of the most interesting features of the portable soldering station was the command line interface that both the iron and …read more Continue reading iFixit Releases Command Line Docs for FixHub Iron
Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a nonprofit in 1985 with four other directors (including MIT computer science professor Gerald Jay Sussman). Sussman remains on the Board of directors, along with EFF co-founder John Gilmore and … Continue reading Why the FSF is Structured the Way It Is
WordPress co-creator (and Automattic CEO) Matt Mullenweg “has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members,” reports TechCrunch, “some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress projec… Continue reading WordPress.org Accounts Deactivated for Contributors Said to Be Planning a Fork – by Automattic CEO
[Boz] wants to build a retrocomputer, but where to start? You could start with the computery bits, like say the CPU or the bus architecture, but where’s the fun in that? …read more Continue reading Blinkenlights-First Retrocomputer Design