Too Human
The more “lifelike” simulations are, the less effective they risk becoming.

May 21, 2019 at 08:05PM
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Google Stored Some Passwords In Plain Text For Fourteen Years
In a blog post today, Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, though Google says that it can’t find any evidence that anybody’s password was improperly accessed.

May 21, 2019 at 06:51PM
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I Built A Kilopixel Camera That Uses A Single Photoresistor For Portraits
I recently built a kilopixel camera called “The Flying Pixel Portrait Camera.” It’s a do-it-yourself project that uses a single photoresistor and a video projector in order to capture portraits.

May 21, 2019 at 03:39PM
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Stanford Students Made A Robot Dog You Can Build Yourself
Got a few thousand bucks and a good deal of engineering expertise? You’re in luck: Stanford students have created a quadrupedal robot platform called Doggo that you can build with off-the-shelf parts and a considerable amount of elbow grease.

May 21, 2019 at 02:42PM
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Why You May Never See ‘Game Of Thrones’ As It Was Meant To Be Seen
In the streaming era, compression, bandwidth and TV calibration all warp the viewing experience.

May 21, 2019 at 01:25PM
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We Can’t Believe It’s A Robot That’s Making This Omelette
The machines are rising and soon they’ll take over all our breakfast food.

May 21, 2019 at 10:33AM
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Beyond The Tablet: Seven Years Of Using An iPad As My Main Computer
For the past seven years, I’ve considered the iPad my main computer. Not my only one, and not the most powerful one I own, but the computer which I use and enjoy using the most.

May 21, 2019 at 09:51AM
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I Don’t Know How Cpus Work So I Simulated One In Code
A few months ago it dawned on me that I didn’t really understand how computers work under the hood. And I still don’t understand how modern computers work.

May 21, 2019 at 08:40AM
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MIT Just Cracked Open An Historic Time Capsule — Here’s What Was Inside
Buried in 1999, the capsule contained the 1992 proposal for the World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee — and Microsoft’s first product.

May 20, 2019 at 05:32PM
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Google Glass Gets A Surprise Upgrade And New Frames
It’s 2019, and guess what? Google just unveiled its newest version of Glass. It’s not made to be a widespread consumer product, but there are business users who will care.

May 20, 2019 at 04:14PM
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