Tag: tech
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The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue. Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your computer keyboard. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html more ›
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GeoCities, Vine, Friendster–communities live, thrive, and often die on the net. But the two-week timeframe in which content will disappear from Tumblr is unprecedented, says Jason Scott. https://www.fastcompany.com/90279321/the-frantic-unprecedented-race-to-save-700000-nsfw-tumblr-for-posterity more ›
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Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware, including remote control over the steering, and an adversarial example attack on the… more ›
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Today, unlike in the past, workers can meetings from anywhere, or control complex production processes with the push of a button. Technology has dramatically altered what it means for many… more ›
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In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/technology/google-robotics-lab.html more ›
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When the kids in Skyler’s school want to tell a friend something in class, they don’t scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across… more ›
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Editor’s Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this… more ›
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In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/ more ›
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In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone “Plastics. There’s a great… more ›
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If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›