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Control USB power on a port by port basis on some USB hubs. Originally created NIIBE Yutaka and published to Github by Joel Dare on January31st, 2013. This only…

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Over the holiday, I started reading a book called “Creativity, Inc” by Ed Catmull , one of the co-founders of Pixar. Ed shares the story of the inception and…

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Gradient descent relies on trial and error to optimize an algorithm, aiming for minima in a 3D landscape. Alexander Amini, Daniela Rus. Massachusetts Institute…

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Supernormal Interview Gill Ord Bernadette Moloney Sam Francis Keran James London, UK February 2018 Detail from the photographic series S.O.R.R.O.W by Jordan…

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Robert Daly / Caiaimage / Getty Facebook’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, made a remarkable announcement during a keynote at the company’s big conference…

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A woodblock illustration from Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay Wikimedia // Public Domain Fortune-telling automata— think Zoltar —were a fixture of penny arcades…

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“Defendant is a cheater,” said Epic Games in its October 2017 lawsuit against a 14-year-old boy. “Nobody likes a cheater. And nobody likes playing with…

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latest READY FOR TAKEOFF How to launch your career right, according to the dean of Kellogg School of Management HELP WANTED Glassdoor's sale for $1.2 billion…

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The recent silencing, for maintenance reasons, of the bell known as Big Ben met a suitably muted response from the nation. A half-hearted effort by a handful of…

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Myths and folk tales are an ancient legacy: the legacy of many millennia of human interaction with the land which gives us life, and with the non-human others…

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Recently a post did the rounds on social media. Its author declined to discuss it, but gave permission for us to reproduce it here. We do so unedited: So a…

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'Point Nemo' is a watery graveyard for titanium fuel tanks and other high-tech space debris One place China's Earth-bound and out-of-control spacelab,…

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There’s a scene in WarGames , the latest interactive experience from Her Story creator Sam Barlow , where the main character Kelly is sifting through a series…

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Apple’s forgotten software gem was a last breath for democratized computing. Can it be revived? I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about HyperCard lately, and as…

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Microwaves across Europe are 6 minutes slow due to a Serbia-Kosovo grid dispute 03/7/2018 2:55 pm Categories: Policy , Science View non-AMP version at…

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We've laid a lot of groundwork over the past two months for me to be able to say this with a straight face: Julian Jaynes believed that ancient people…

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To reject gods and spirits is easy: just bully them away in the name of science. But to accept them, or at least our experiences of them, and yet give them a…

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