Collaborate Disseminate
After game developer Nolen Royalty launched his short-lived viral site “One Million Checkboxes” in June. (Any visitor could check or uncheck a box in the grid — which would change how it displayed for every other visitor to the site, in near real… Continue reading How a Group of Teenagers Pranked ‘One Million Checkboxes’
Though it’s long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC.
“A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline’s booking system.”… Continue reading Airline Ticketing System Keeps Mistaking a 101-Year-Old Woman for a 1-Year-Old
In the last 90 seconds of a recent Disney Parks video, there’s a demonstration of a new technology called a HoloTile floor. Disney research fellow/R&D “imagineerer” Lanny Smoot specifies that “we don’t know yet where it will be used” — though… Continue reading Disney Demos ‘HoloTile Floor’ with Possible Applications in Shared Virtual Reality
Long-time Slashdot reader deater writes: The Second Reality demoscene demo from 1993 is one of the most well known demos of all time, pushing a 486 running DOS to its limits. There have been remakes for other architectures over the years, including Ata… Continue reading 1993’s ‘Second Reality’ Demo Recreated for the Apple II
Thursday Bill Gates launched a new podcast called “Unconfuse Me.” (“What do you do when you can’t solve a problem? I like to talk to smart people who can help me understand the subject better…”)
Join me on my learning journey as I talk to brilliant g… Continue reading Bill Gates Launches New Podcast, Tells Seth Rogen About Smoking Pot
Someone on Reddit used the Midjourney AI image generator to create “a selection of 28 fantastically alluring case designs” for the Mini ITX PC, reports Tom’s Hardware:
Our sample gallery of the AI-generated Mini ITX PCs embedded above features quite a… Continue reading What Happens When an AI Generates Designs for PC Cases?
CNN reports:
Elon Musk’s latest internet jest has taken the form of a perfume with an unsavory scent: “Burnt Hair. ”
The tech mogul, entrepreneur and sometimes internet troll announced the launch of the product on Twitter on Tuesday, calling it “the … Continue reading Elon Musk Newest Venture: Selling a $100 Perfume
CNN reports:
Elon Musk’s latest internet jest has taken the form of a perfume with an unsavory scent: “Burnt Hair. ”
The tech mogul, entrepreneur and sometimes internet troll announced the launch of the product on Twitter on Tuesday, calling it “the … Continue reading Elon Musk’s Newest Venture: Selling a $100 Perfume
“I started playing pickleball more than 50 years ago,” Bill Gates says in a new video — not long after the game was invented…
Now the 66-year-old Microsoft co-founder writes in a blog post that “I’ve been a little stunned — and delighte… Continue reading Over Half a Century, Bill Gates Has Been Playing Pickleball
The New York Times tells the story of crop circles, “the mysterious patterns that regularly intrigued people around the world in the 1980s and ’90s, prompting speculation about alien visitors, ancient spiritual forces, weather anomalies, secret weapons… Continue reading Crop Circles – and Why People Believed in Them