The mass migration to the public cloud has sparked increased interest in telemetry to monitor and manage hundreds and thousands of APIs.

We present three security design flaws in Wi-Fi and widepread implementation flaws. These can be abused to exfiltrate user data and attack local devices.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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 […]

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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.

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…

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

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...

[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…

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 […]

Glass Enterprise Edition is a hands-free device, for hands-on workers that removes distractions and helps you focus on what's most important.

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

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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