Has the Code Been Cracked on Key Switches?
Input Club thinks it’s cracked the code and figured out a way not just to bring the IBM Beam Spring into the modern keyboard era, but also to create a keyboard so customizable that the input the keyboard reports changes depending on how hard you press the key.

July 16, 2019 at 07:44PM
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Data Company Directly Powers Immigration Raids in Workplace
Palantir Technologies, co-founded by a Trump advisor in Silicon Valley, has created a smart-phone app that helps ICE round up undocumented workers. The number of arrests has shot up.

July 16, 2019 at 07:44PM
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Brains Scale Better Than CPUs. So Intel Is Building Brains
Neuromorphic engineering — building machines that mimic the function of organic brains in hardware as well as software — is becoming more and more prominent.

July 16, 2019 at 04:15PM
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An Engineer On Apollo 11 Explains What Really Caused The Infamous Computer Error
“It all happened so fast. Not even the programmers who had designed it were sure just what was happening.”

July 16, 2019 at 01:55PM
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Man Hacks Into Scammer’s Computer To Reveal How A Tech Support Scam Unfolds In Real Time
An informative — and infuriating — behind-the-screen look into how a scamming group called “Home IT Master” operates and swindles its victims into paying money.

July 16, 2019 at 01:55PM
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The Curious Case Of Dust In ‘The Lion King’
How one unassuming special effect challenged animators and made Disney history.

July 16, 2019 at 01:02PM
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Guy Places His iPhone XS In A Box Tethered To Balloons And Sends It Sky High
The things some people do to get a signal…

July 16, 2019 at 11:55AM
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How Pornhub Enables Doxing and Harassment
Pornhub is hosting videos that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The women in them say they thought the videos would never reach the internet, and that being doxed has ruined their lives.

July 16, 2019 at 11:55AM
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‘My son spent £3,160 in one game’
After the BBC published a story about a family losing hundreds to a kids’ spending spree in “Fifa 19,” readers chimed in with their own stories about out-of-control game and app spending.

July 16, 2019 at 09:55AM
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Apple’s Touch Bar Doesn’t Have to Be So Terrible
The Touch Bar bums me out too, but not because I think it’s as worthless as many people contend.

July 16, 2019 at 08:41AM
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