FORCEdraft: Make Yourself Write!
Some writers need to make daily word counts. These may be personal goals or professional assignments, but we have to make with the words whether or not they’re actually floating around in our heads...
View ArticleDog Gets 3D Printed Legs
I haven’t done a heart-warming 3D printing story in a while, so here’s a tear-jerker for you: Derby the dog, born with deformed front legs, gets a new pair of prosthetics thanks to 3D printing, and...
View ArticleHave I Mentioned Lately How Much I Hate Robots?
This is the latest dumb thing no one needs: What a load of nonsense. First, it’s not handwritten. It’s machinewritten, which means even though someone built an elaborate bit of gizmoditry to go through...
View ArticlePolice Targeting Waze
Some police think Waze is dangerous and want Google to pull the plug on one of its key features. The social/traffic app is designed to provide drivers with information on highway congestion, accidents,...
View ArticleHow I Work: Jeff Miller, The Curt Jester
As a counterpoint to the How I Pray series, I’ve challenged other bloggers to answer Lifehacker’s How I Work questions on their own blogs for a kind of ora et labora thing. Now my uber-techie friend...
View ArticleTech Website Gets Access to 4.6 Million License Plate Scans
If you drive in Oakland, California, Ars Technica knows where you’ve been: In response to a public records request, we obtained the entire LPR dataset of the Oakland Police Department (OPD), including...
View ArticleHow I Work: Anthony S. Layne
Over at Outside the Asylum, Anthony Lane takes on the How I Work challenge: What has changed over the years since you started and what do you do differently? Oh, my, what hasn’t? I keep thinking of the...
View ArticleHow I Work: Will Duquette
Will Duquette completes the ora et labora circuit by adding a How I Work to his How I Pray entry. Here’s a little bit: I use Evernote for storing general notes I’ve got no better place to put—ideas for...
View ArticleDARPA? More Like DERPA–Watch Robots Fail
Okay, if this is the kind of thing we can expect from our aspiring robotic overlords, we may not have to worry too much about Skynet. These are just a few of the epic fails from the DARPA Robotics...
View ArticleShocker: Ray Kurzweil Says CrazyStupid Things
Must be a day that ends in Y. Kurzweil has been predicting the “singularity,” a vagueish idea about a moment when transhumanism (aka, technognosticism) powered by teh tech (details to be determined...
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