Careful where you tromp this summer. Deep in the Maine forrests there are trolls. Great work by Thomas Dambo and write up via NPR: Troll-hunter alert in Boothbay, Maine: This summer, five ginormous…

It’s been pwned! stacksmashing, an IT security researcher creating videos about reverse engineering, posts a YouTube video on hacking the new Apple AirTags. They contain a Nordic nRF52832 pro…

Pedro Duarte posts about how to highlight various blocks of code in a program: I’ve been exploring ways to improve the user experience of code blocks. I’ve been spending a lot of time w…

I sent an AirTag by mail to a friend and tracked it across the UK.

Tokyo’s retro-sci-fi Nakagin Capsule Tower was designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and erected in 1972 in only 30 days. Despite repeated attempts to tear it down and replace it with a more m…

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Computational notebooks—such as Azure, Databricks, and Jupyter—are a popular, interactive paradigm for data scientists to author code, analyze data, and interleave visualizations, all within a single document. Nevertheless, as data scientists incorporate more of their activities into notebooks, they encounter unexpected difficulties, or pain points, that impact their productivity and disrupt their workflow. Through a […]

The new Apple‑designed U1 chip uses Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness—allowing iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max or later iPhone models and the new Apple AirTag to preci…

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Nature - An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool.

Steve Jobs is a poster child for our Be Bold practice, and we’ve used the oft attributed Steve Jobs quote “we’re here to make a dent in the universe”, but caveated it with our inability to find the source. We decided to research it.

What is Affordances? Affordances are properties of objects which show users the actions they can take. Users should be able to perceive affordances without having to consider how to...

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Ong, Walter J. “Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought.” The Written Word: Literacy in Transition. Ed. Gerd Baumann. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. 23-50.  Summary: Ong begins wi…

GARD Pro Not RegisteredThe Human Media Lab has some rough plans on how to build your own rudimentary spherical display using a short-throw projector, half-sphere convex mirror, and some cleverly utilized webcams. Our spherical display prototype is a low cost, easy to build setup that can be constructed in a short time with easily available […]

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[Nirav Patel] is a man on a mission. Since 2011 he has been obsessed with owning a spherical display, the kind of thing you see in museums and science centers, but on a desktop scale. Unfortunately…

Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.

The Strenuous Life is a membership platform for those who wish to revolt against our age of ease, comfort, and existential weightlessness. The Bugle is the monthly newsletter for participants of The Strenuous Life, which highlights the strenuous going-ons of our intrepid members. Below is what we sent members as the May edition of the Bugle. We […]

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by DK Badenhorst. One commercial that’s done a great job of using intertextuality in recent months is the first adidas Originals commercial.