Collaborate Disseminate
Death and passwords: two things we just can’t avoid. With so much of our lives tied up in cloud services nowadays, there’s good reason to worry about what happens to …read more Continue reading The Postmortem Password Problem
Computers in working order and with correct software don’t make mistakes. People, however, make plenty of mistakes (including writing bad software or breaking computers). In quality circles, there’s a Japanese …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Site: Check Digits and Human Error
When you’ve got a diabetic in your life, there are few moments in any day that are free from thoughts about insulin. Insulin is literally the first coherent thought I …read more Continue reading Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming for Distributed Production
For the last hundred or so years, collectively as humanity, we’ve been dreaming, thinking, writing, singing, and producing movies about a machine that could think, reason, and be intelligent in …read more Continue reading Neuromorphic Computing: What Is It and Where Are We At?
We think of radio navigation and direction finding as something fairly modern. However, it might surprise you that direction finding is nearly as old as radio itself. In 1888, Heinrich …read more Continue reading Where’s that Radio? A Brief History of Direction Finding
Utah is a place that features a wonderful and varied wilderness. Its mountainous terrain is home to many valleys, ponds, and streams. They’re a particular favorite of recreational anglers who …read more Continue reading Airdropping Live Fish Is A Thing And It Looks Magnificent
Steam branding is strong. Valve Corporation has turned their third-party marketplace into the first place millions choose to buy their PC games. The service has seen record-breaking numbers earlier this …read more Continue reading Valve Sells Software, So What’s With All The Hardware?
Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, Earth would gain its first atmosphere, yet this was an atmosphere that was completely unlike the atmosphere we know today. Today’s oxygen-rich atmosphere we’re familiar …read more Continue reading Figuring Out Earth’s Past Climate Through Paleoclimatology And Its Lessons For Today
The world of antique furniture and the world of hackers rarely coincide, and perhaps the allure of the latest tech is greater for most of us than that of a …read more Continue reading Fresh Paint or Patina of Ages, That’s The Antique Question
There I was, thirty years after I first sat down at an Apple IIe , and I suddenly found myself wondering if I would ever use a computer again without …read more Continue reading Avoiding Repetitive Stress Injury: Invest in Yourself Now, Or Pay Later