"Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Goethe, made famous by Disney's "Fantasia," illustrated the risk of human creations getting out of control.

The electric car company run by Elon Musk is facing increasing competition, but investors have focused mostly on the prospects for Tesla’s self-driving technology.

U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. Registrations of new Teslas dropped 41 percent to less than 38…

Audiocube is is a 3D DAW - an application for composing, designing, and creating sound in a virtual acoustic environment.

Crampons have been used in Norway for over 1,000 years. Espen Kutschera has tested Viking-era crampons.

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background

Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.

Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”

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Hamilton’s quaternion number system $latex {\mathbb{H}}&fg=000000$ is a non-commutative extension of the complex numbers, consisting of numbers of the form $latex {t + xi + yj + zk}&f…

This paper is from Pat Helland, the apostate philosopher of database systems, overall a superb person, and a good friend of mine. The paper...

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