Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones" https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1395089205986988043
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John Carmack
Before the iPhone existed, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones": Doom RPG 1&2, Orcs&Elves 1&2, and Wolfenstein RPG. Qualcomm's native-code BREW platform had better versions, but I haven't seen any emulators and archives for it, so…
Spintronics: Build Mechanical Circuits https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upperstory/spintronics-build-mechanical-circuits
Kickstarter
Spintronics: Build mechanical circuits
A puzzle game where players discover electronics in a tangible way, using the first physical representation of electronic circuits.
Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1340
One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks https://columbianewsservice.com/2021/05/21/one-mans-fight-for-the-right-to-repair-broken-macbooks/
Columbia News Service
One Man’s Fight for the Right to Repair Broken MacBooks - Columbia News Service
He started as just 'a random person ranting at a camera for therapy.'
How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020) https://twitter.com/Kristy_Viers/status/1287189581926981634
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Kristy Viers 🦯
I thought I would share how I, as someone who is visually impaired use my iPhone.☺️
Twitter confirms Twitter Blue https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1398022730553860102
Twitter
Jane Manchun Wong
Twitter confirms “Twitter Blue”, which costs $2.99 per month by publicly including such In-App Purchase on the App Store For testing, I’ve become the first paying Twitter Blue customer 😅 Twitter Blue comes with Color Themes as well as custom App Icons Reader…
Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel https://dental.washington.edu/trials-begin-on-lozenge-that-rebuilds-tooth-enamel/
UW School of Dentistry
Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
Before too long, you may be able to buy a breath mint that rebuilds your tooth enamel while it whitens your teeth, thanks to a team of University of Washington researchers.
Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400
WSJ
WSJ News Exclusive | Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion
Prosus said it struck a $1.8 billion deal to acquire Stack Overflow, an online community for software developers, in a bet on growing demand for online tech learning.
United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.html
CNBC
United Airlines will buy 15 ultrafast airplanes from start-up Boom Supersonic
Boom says its first commercial supersonic jet, the Overture, will fly at Mach 1.7 and cut some flight times in half.
An Unbelievable Demo https://brendangregg.com/blog/2021-06-04/an-unbelievable-demo.html
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters https://usa.oceana.org/publications/reports/oceana-finds-hundreds-vessels-vanishing-along-argentinas-waters#
Oceana USA
Oceana Finds Hundreds of Vessels Vanishing Along Argentina’s Waters
ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program https://alien-project.org/
alien-project.org
artificial life environment
Artificial LIfe ENvironment (ALIEN) is an artificial life simulation tool based on a specialized 2D particle engine in CUDA for soft bodies and fluid-like media. Each simulated body consists of a network of particles that can be enriched with higher-level…
1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedel-1931-founder-theoretical-computer-science-AI.html
people.idsia.ch
1931: theoretical computer science & AI theory founded by Goedel
His famous 1931 paper identified the fundamental limits of math, logics, theorem proving, computing, AI.
I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka https://gentlydownthe.stream/