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Ask Hackaday: The Turing Test is Dead: Long Live the Turing Test!
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/ask-hackaday-the-turing-test-is-dead-long-live-the-turing-test/
Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence that no longer works. The idea was to have people communicate over a terminal, with another real person and with a computer. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/ask-hackaday-the-turing-test-is-dead-long-live-the-turing-test/)
The Tandy Color Computer came with analog joysticks, quite unlike most computers and consoles of the early 1980s. Many games of the era actually worked best with digital input, so …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/adapter-lets-digital-gamepads-work-on-the-tandy-color-computer/)
[RyderCalmDown] was watching a road painting vehicle lay down fresh stripes on the road one day and started thinking about the mechanism that lets it paint stripes in such a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/is-this-the-worlds-largest-dot-matrix-printer/)
Power tool batteries are a convenient portable power supply for all manner of different things. [Zachary Goode] noticed that Ryobi was using them to power soldering irons, but no such …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/portable-soldering-station-runs-on-drill-batteries/)
Much to the chagrin of Eastman Kodak, the world has moved on from chemical photography into the realm of digital, thanks to the ease of use and high quality of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/forgotten-chemical-photography/)
Will the Lilium Jet Work? A Deep-Dive Into the Physics Behind eVTOL Aircraft
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/will-the-lilium-jet-work-a-deep-dive-into-the-physics-behind-evtol-aircraft/
The Lilium Jet is a proposed eVTOL (electric Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft that the German company Lilium GmbH has claimed it will bring to the market ‘soon’, which …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/06/22/will-the-lilium-jet-work-a-deep-dive-into-the-physics-behind-evtol-aircraft/)