The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice. Then a few years of stagnation, at a time when it seemed that desktop office suites were…

Physicists from the group of Jorik van de Groep at the UvA-Institute of Physics have devised a new method that can be used to detect edges of images in an extremely energy efficient and ultrafast way. ...

American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit offering reviews and ratings for media

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Silicon Valley is reeling. However, founder Liang Wenfeng has remained low-key, with his most recent appearance being on China Central Television's Xinwen Lianbo (CCTV News).

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Antiqua et nova. Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence, 28 January 2025

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"Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Goethe, made famous by Disney's "Fantasia," illustrated the risk of human creations getting out of control.

The electric car company run by Elon Musk is facing increasing competition, but investors have focused mostly on the prospects for Tesla’s self-driving technology.

U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. Registrations of new Teslas dropped 41 percent to less than 38…

Audiocube is is a 3D DAW - an application for composing, designing, and creating sound in a virtual acoustic environment.

Crampons have been used in Norway for over 1,000 years. Espen Kutschera has tested Viking-era crampons.

Update: I put together a report here Report of Observations Regarding the Pokemon Playtests/Prototype Cards About the tracking dots Most home and office printers add metadata to printed sheets in the form of very tiny yellow dots (sometimes called a machine…

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background

Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.