Old School Graphics Tool Will Make You Grateful For How Far We’ve Come
The Koalapad was innovative for its time, but today’s graphics programs make it look damn near archaic.

November 28, 2016 at 08:04AM
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A New Threat to Oceans: Deep-Sea Mining for Precious Metals
Polymetallic nodules are rocks found in the deep-sea — they’re rich in rare metals and hyper valuable. If conventional mining practices are employed to scoop up nodules, totally undiscovered species could go extinct.

November 27, 2016 at 07:26PM
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Hackers are holding San Francisco’s light-rail system for ransom
Reached by email, the hacker confirmed he was seeking a deal with MUNI to undo the damage.

November 27, 2016 at 03:36PM
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San Francisco made its public transit free for a day after it was hacked
“You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted” SF Muni computers read on Saturday.

November 27, 2016 at 01:54PM
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San Francisco made its public transit free for a day after it was hacked
“You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted” SF Muni computers read on Saturday.

November 27, 2016 at 01:54PM
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Google DeepMind could invent the next generation of AI by playing Starcraft 2
How Google’s AI research team has teamed up with Blizzard to further deep learning in AI.

November 27, 2016 at 12:39PM
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Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
Functional organizations have enormous strengths, but also limits.

November 27, 2016 at 11:36AM
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The Year of the RAM Drought
In the mid-1980s, the RAM industry and the oil industry had a lot in common: The price fluctuations could get severe. Things got really bad in 1988.

November 27, 2016 at 07:16AM
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Black Girls Code, BlackGirlsCode, Women of Color in Technology
By reaching out to the community through workshops and after school programs, Black Girls CODE introduces computer coding lessons to young girls from underrepresented communities in programming languages such as Scratch or Ruby on Rails.

November 26, 2016 at 07:25AM
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Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs
Welcome to the new world of artificial intelligence. Soon, we won’t program computers. We’ll train them. Like dolphins. Or dogs. Or humans.

November 26, 2016 at 07:25AM
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