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I saw this article the other day, and it made me so happy. Emma Yang is going to do amazing things with her skills, of that I am sure. Maybe she could unite with Shubham Banerjee and do some amazing things. She saw her grandmother struggling with the effects of Alzheimer’s, and at 14, built …
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Long ago, Carin put up audio of a history of different speech synthesizers meant to show how the technology has evolved through the years. Included in that demonstration was the Voder, a device first shown by Bell Labs in 1939. What you heard back then was only a few seconds of it, but because the …
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The other day, Apple confirmed something that anyone that’s used an iPhone for any length of time already suspected. They’re slowing them down on purpose. The older ones, anyhow. The reason, so they say, is to protect degrading batteries in older phones. That’s perfectly sensible and I have no reason to doubt them, but it …
“Hey man, listen up. I’ve got a great idea.” “Ok, I’m all ears.” “So you know how there’s that tech company down on Dela Cruz Avenue?” “Yeah. Roam something. What do they do, anyway?” “I don’t know, but do you want to find out?” “Sure, what the hell. But how?” “Well, how about tonight, you …
The news is full of technological advances nowadays, many of which are of questionable usefulness and don’t warrant much attention. But now and then you hear about something that stops you cold and all you can do is think holy Jesus, how did somebody ever come up with that? That happened to me just now …
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Yesterday, I had to go get some pictures from my phone printed. I went to the “photo finishing” area of Shoppers. For some reason, the term “photo finishing” made me laugh, because this version was nothing like photo finishing as we understood it as kids…which made me go watch this Kids React video, which it …
It’s not the stupidest unnecessarily smart gadget I’ve ever seen (I think that honour goes to these socks), but the Hair Coach is way up there. Yes, it is a hair brush. A hair brush with sensors in it. A hair brush that has it’s own app. A hair brush that communicates through Bluetooth. And …
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If I live another hundred years, I will still never understand how it is that a person can get himself so distracted that he fails to notice something the size of, the sound of and the feel of a fucking train. People often try when we publish one of these stories, but there is literally …
I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before, and if I have, which is super possible since there’s so much stuff on here, oops. A long time ago when computers were huge and vacuum-tube-powered, Alan Turing, you know, *the* Alan Turing, figured out how to make them sing. The recording of it was put away, …
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Tricky as it might be to exploit, as far as internet security vulnerabilities go I’m not sure it gets much worse than Krack. Thankfully Carin and I are above buying shit like kettles and cookie jars and socks that require connectivity, so we’re probably good once we Windows Update the computers, upgrade the iPhones to …