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If you’re washing your hands properly and following the official advice about social distancing and self-isolation in your region, you can rest assured you’re doing more than your bit in the fight against COVID–19, the virus which is the cause of the o… Continue reading How you can help research to combat COVID-19
After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste.Continue ReadingCategory: Remarkable People, LifestyleTags: Xerox, History, Software, Computer Continue reading How the invention of cut and paste helped change software forever
“I have to wonder though, if you actually ate this soup with a little fish in it. The soup is so full of flavor that there wasn’t even a single taste.”Continue ReadingCategory: Computers, TechnologyTags: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network, Books, … Continue reading The wonderful weirdness of neural nets
Scientists at the University of Exeter have turned to Twitter for a better picture of the effect ocean plastics are having on sharks and rays…
Continue Reading Scientists identify more than 1,000 sharks and rays tangled in ocean waste
… Continue reading Scientists identify more than 1,000 sharks and rays tangled in ocean waste
“Little Thunder,” as I call her, has been obsessed with Mario since Super Mario Odyssey appeared. But the launch of Super Mario Maker 2 has elevated our screen time from mere fun to something rather special…
Continue Reading Why Super Mari… Continue reading Why Super Mario Maker 2 is the game my daughter and I have been waiting for
A new retro games console, dubbed the C64, bucks the trend of recent retro games boxes, being a full-sized recreation of the machine on which it’s based: the Commodore 64 (which originally launched in 1982 – basically Victorian times)…
Con… Continue reading Full-size C64 console to come with 64 games plus working keyboard
A technology-enthusiast has invented a Nerf gun turret that can automatically track and shoot down small drones. The ingenious contraption uses the Lidar capabilities of a Kinect v2 sensor, and a milled steel two-axis gimbal, all controlled b… Continue reading DIY gun turret takes down mini-drones
The USA has gained ground in the world supercomputer rankings, with
116 supercomputers listed among the top 500 most powerful in the world.
This is up from 109 in November 2018. China continues to dominate the list in terms of the number … Continue reading USA gains ground in supercomputer world rankings
We live in increasingly polarized times. Times where your point of
view defines more than your stance on a particular topic – it defines
who you are. Perhaps that’s why people are so unlikely to change their
minds on any given issue, ev… Continue reading Global warming: Can these striking charts convince nay-sayers?
I don’t know when I opened my Dropbox account. It was years ago –
probably not long after it was founded in 2007. Since then I’ve been a
fan of the way Dropbox makes saving files in the cloud – and sharing
them – quick and easy. When it arrived, its camera uploads feature
solved the problem of getting photos off my phone and somewhere secure –
somewhere that wasn’t locking me in to Apple, or any other hardware
company’s ecosystem.
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Continue Reading Why I’m quitting Dropbox (and Dropbox is fine with that)
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