October 7, 2020 Presidential Debate Commission Clearly Not Playing With a Full Deck The first telephone was invented in 1861. The underlying technology evolved greatly over the next 100 years, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that…
October 7, 2020 Russian Design for a Reusable Rocket Sure Looks Familiar Roscosmos is moving ahead with plans to build Russia’s first reusable rocket. Glancing at the design, it appears the Russian space agency doesn’t feel…
October 7, 2020 GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati A Reddit user went on an impressive comment streak last week. The user stuck to the pages of the mega-popular AskReddit subforum, and their…
October 7, 2020 10 Jedi Facilities That Survived Star Wars’ Order 66 Order 66 may have massacred most of the Jedi, but it wasn’t just people that survived Palpatine’s purge. The Jedi existed for eons before…
October 7, 2020 Did the Coronavirus Plan the Vice Presidential Debate? The vice presidential debate tonight between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris looks set to go ahead, despite Pence’s recent exposure to people who later…
October 7, 2020 Why Is It So Hard to Make a Beautiful Smartwatch Band? A couple of weeks ago, on a camping trip with a friend, I was describing my newfound obsession with wearing my smartwatch to track…
October 7, 2020 Black Box Offers a Mostly Familiar Sci-Fi Tale About Memory Loss Sci-fi movies are fond of exploring the intersection of technology and memory—think Total Recall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and both Blade Runner…
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October 7, 2020 The Key to Passing Good Climate Policy Is Having Real People in Congress Earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez featured Taco Mix, objectively the best taco spot in Spanish Harlem, on her Instagram. I tell you this…
October 7, 2020 Slack’s Having An Identity Crisis Slack is a company in trouble. For some reason, the workplace messaging app—one that’s cursed not only with occasional outages, but a mind-numbing layout…