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December 2, 2017

A supercomputer made of Raspberry Pis

*Even if it’s just a “testbed” of some kind, that’s pretty messed-up. And it’s in Los Alamos, no less System with thousands of nodes brings...

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November 30, 2017

Graphene batteries

*I don’t cover a lot of exotic energy-tech “breakthrough” news, because it’s easy to create, cool goofy stuff in the lab that doesn’t scale up...

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November 29, 2017

Cosmist Superhumanity

*If you’re a mere Singularity fan, you’re kind of a sissy compared to good-old-fashioned Russian Cosmists. Cosmism—A Superhumanity Symposium November 30–December 1, 2017 Princeton University...

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Augmented Reality: Pokemon, and for the next trick, Harry Potter

*Two hundred million in venture capital. Have a look

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Money mule crackdown week

*They’re mostly penniless students, unemployed guys wrecked by austerity, illegal emigrants and a few iron-board stay-at-home moms with imaginary businesses. Not out planet’s major white-collar...

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Jasmina Tesanovic and Bruce Sterling : Closing Act – IAM Weekend 17: The Renaissance of Utopias

*The wife and I do a few joint public appearances (when discussing our joint projects) and I would have to judge that this is the...

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November 27, 2017

Big Tech and some of its non-fans

From: Vesna Manojlovic 0. “I Hate the Internet” = a novel by Jarett Kobek http://www.ihatetheinternet.net https://www.theguardian.com/technolog... http://weheardyoulikebooks.com/releas... 1. Who Owns the Internet by Elizabeth Kolbert...

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“Processing and FLOSS” by Casey Reas

Prof. Dr. Reas explaining the ideology https://medium.com/@ProcessingOrg/pro... (…) We believe visual artists and designers should be in control of their own software tools. It’s not...

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November 26, 2017

The Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness

*The people at “TV Tropes” have so much cult jargon that they’re in a conceptual world all their own. Wander in there, you might never...

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Published on November 26, 2017 00:01

Meanwhile, in Houston, and outside Houston in a myriad of hotels

Local officials estimate that the hurricane damaged a third of the housing stock *That’s a strange map. Why, for instance, does Arizona have no Houstonian...

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Published on November 26, 2017 00:01

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