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Six Days in the Dark
On Tuesday, April 29th, 2025, a major storm system rolled through the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region and...
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Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome
Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites....
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Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)
16-bit Intel 8088 chipwith an Apple Macintosh you can’t run Radio Shack programs in its disc...
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Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa
I’ve been working in games for a little more than 15 years, and the main thing...
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Google agrees to pay $1.4B data privacy settlement to Texas
Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations of...
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Using Git-upload-pack for a simpler CI integration
One of the early decisions we made in Screenshotbot was to not have read-access to your...
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Social drinking also a well-worn path to alcohol use disorder
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When picturing a “typical” alcoholic, people tend to imagine a person drinking at...
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Reading "business" books is a waste of time
Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor.They turn simplified stories into...
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Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down
It looks like the end of an era for the U.S. dollar. In his new book...
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Before the Undo Command, There Was the Electric Eraser
I’m fascinated with the early 20th-century zeal for electrifying everyday things. Hand tools, toasters, hot combs—they...
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Math Machine – A notebook will show your kid how far they have travelled
Image Source: Kelly SikkemaSometime in Elementary School or heading into Middle School, your kid will need...
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All BART trains were stopped due to ‘computer networking problem’
Across the Mission District, Ian Rice arrived at the 24th Street station shortly after 7 a.m....
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Graphcore unveils GC200 and M2000 IPU Machine–1 petaFLOP "pizza box" AI server
There is a lot riding on the use of artificial intelligence technology to help us take...
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What's New in Swift 6.2?
Brace yourselves, folks: Swift 6.2 contains another gigantic collection of additions and improvements to the language,...
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Odin, a Pragmatic C Alternative with a Go Flavour
Odin is a general-purpose systems programming language authored by Bill “gingerBill” Hall. Designed as a modern...
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Reverse Engineering "DNA Sequences" in the Lost World: Jurassic Park Video Game
In this edition:I examined the password system for the 1997 game The Lost World: Jurassic Park...
