Oh God, they’re putting religion on the blockchain
Is 0xΩ actually a new faith, or is it a warning of the crypto hell that awaits?

June 10, 2018 at 08:11AM
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Apple And Google Are Heading In The Same Direction But On Different Paths
It’s also fair to say that both of these companies see the same trends happening in computing, and so they are triangulating their platforms in complementary ways.

June 10, 2018 at 02:03AM
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Larry Page’s Flying Car Project Suddenly Seems Rather Real
The Google founder’s Kitty Hawk has shown a new version of its Flyer vehicle, boasting a sleek design and solid specs.

June 9, 2018 at 07:54PM
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Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?
According to Dave Feldman, Vice President of Product Design at Heap, chatbots didn’t just take on one difficult problem and fail: they took on several and failed all of them.

June 9, 2018 at 02:25PM
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Eye Tracking Glasses Reveal What Soccer Players See
What are soccer players looking at, for instance, when they do a penalty kick — the ball or the goalkeeper?

June 9, 2018 at 09:08AM
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The Decline of the MacBook Pro
I got a 15″ MacBook Pro the summer before my freshman year of college through my school’s computer store. I used it for six years before getting a 13″ model in 2015. I’m considering getting a new one in the next year or two, but the latest MacBook Pros have become worse in many ways that are important to me.

June 9, 2018 at 12:24AM
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Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World’s Speediest Supercomputer
Summit’s speeds, announced on Friday, boggle the mind. It can do mathematical calculations at the rate of 200 quadrillion per second, or 200 petaflops. To put in human terms: A person doing one calculation a second would have to live for more than 6.3 billion years to match what the machine can do in a second.

June 8, 2018 at 06:15PM
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Sheryl Sandberg Delivers MIT Commencement Address, Says Facebook ‘Didn’t See The Risks Coming’
“It’s painful when you miss something, when you make the mistake of believing so much in the good you are seeing that you don’t see the bad. It’s hard when you know that you let people down.”

June 8, 2018 at 02:09PM
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Here Come the Drone Police
The Los Angeles County Sheriff has deployed a quadcopter drone for rescue and reconnaissance. But will the public accept that these aerial officers come in peace?

June 8, 2018 at 01:08PM
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The History Of ARM Holdings, From Acorn To Giant Tree
The story of ARM Holdings, one of our most important tech companies, is full of sheer luck, happy accidents, and a faded British computing icon.

June 8, 2018 at 12:10PM
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