“If you had a power that no one else had, when would you choose to unleash it? That seems to be one of the questions at the center of Sleight. The main character can do something amazing, but when to do it is the real problem.”
“Those with a Pluto-the-planet-shaped void in their hearts have been eagerly following updates about Planet 9, a hypothetical world thought to be 10 times more massive than Earth and roughly 1,000 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun. While there are naysayers aplenty, new research validates believers – and delivers some unexpected news about the planet’s rough childhood.”
“Living in China, it’s safe to assume pretty much everything about you is known – or easily can be known – by the government. Where you go, who you’re with, which restaurants you like, when and why you see your doctor.”
“While a number of new hardware technologies have been revealed recently, 3D XPoint memory is one to watch out for.”
This short film by Dust begs the answer to one question: how much should technology control? Even more importantly, should we be ceding any control at all?
“Artist John Edmark has done it again. With the clever use of a strobe light, he’s created sculptures that move like weird computer animations but are actually real, 3D-printed objects that physically exist. It’s a bit hypnotizing but so, so cool, because they move and grow and essentially come alive in such a bizarre way.”
“Elon Musk tweeted this morning that an update that enables Tesla’s most advanced autopilot functions will roll out to the entire fleet on Monday. The HW2 software will be fully functional in 1,000 cars and run in ‘shadow mode’ for the rest while data continues to be collected.”
“Your feed is edited and curated by incredibly advanced algorithms — private, opaque algorithms. They employ roughly 1000 of the world’s most talented engineers on the ‘product’ alone (the part you interact with). But that word ‘product’ is a little misleading. You are the product.”
This is a follow-up to my first post about TextformatterTypographer, which wraps PHP Typography. In that post, I mention Typeset, which I’ve now ported over to PHP.
“In the fall of 1917, a severe coal shortage hit the United States. Riots even broke out over the lack of energy as the nation went into the winter months. Some people were calling for conservation, but one snarky newspaper article insisted that conserving was for suckers. Why? People of the future – specifically, the people of 100 years hence – wouldn’t be using coal anyway…”
Add a bit of oomph to your markdown with this new Textformatter for ProcessWire.
Unpkg is a fast, global content delivery network for stuff that is published to NPM. Use it to quickly and easily load files using a simple URL like https://unpkg.com/jquery@3.1.1/dist/jquery.min.js.
“For fans of technology, 2016 has been another extraordinary year, filled with all sorts of exciting and delighting developments. But it seems fair to say that few companies have come close to matching Microsoft in the sheer breadth and scale of its accomplishments over the last twelve months.”
“2017 is bound to usher in an assortment of changes to our society. Most of them will be bad — we’re sure to suffer — but some will be good. For example, last night a Los Angeles-based hero vandalized, or rather modernized, the city’s iconic Hollywood sign to read ‘Hollyweed’.”
I’m not a math-person, but TJ Wei seems to have found something interesting regarding the relationship between 2017 and prime numbers, and variations thereof. Jump in to see them!