Image: Facebook Two days ago, The Guardian reported that Facebook had “walked” the team of humans that managed their “trending” links, and had handed their jobs over to an algorithm that had apparently been “learning” […]
[Editor’s note: This post appeared Monday on the blog Vaulting and Vellum] Ahem. Everyone? EVERYONE! "Vagenda of Manocide." [dead silence for 30 seconds followed by wild cheers] pic.twitter.com/FfrgPr06UL — Matthew Foster (@OhWettestFarm) August 24, 2016 Sometimes, […]
Mark Watney and friends in Canada | Photo: The Mars Society via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Here you go, everyone, a little crazy for your Monday. In the “oldie but goodie” catergory, over at anonews.co there’s […]
On approach to perijove | Image: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Ted Stryk Perijove 1/36 Juno, NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft, has just completed its first “perijove,” or up-close-and-personal flyby of the giant radioactive ball […]
Photo: Bruno Sanchez-Adrade Nuño, CC BY 2.0 One of the tough aspects of global feminism, and one of the reasons my own intersectional feminism occasionally isn’t as good as it should be, is the idea […]
A home away from home? | Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0 International Yesterday, scientists from the European Southern Observatory announced that the rumoured discovery of an Earth-sized planet at our closest stellar neighbour, […]
“Addictive” is to “addicting” as “explosive” is to “exploding” | Image: This Week In Tomorrow, CC BY-SA 2.0 Perhaps you’ve heard the story of King Cnut (often written as “King Canute”). The gist of it […]
One port to rule them all | Photo: denvit, CC0 (public domain) According to CNET, at the Intel Developer Forum last week, developers “Brad Saunders and Rahman Ismail sketched out a coming USB audio standard […]
Today’s Monday Crazy concerns this video, supposedly of a man-like creature “filmed” in a “Portuguese desert” that people are calling a “chupacabra.” Things to remember: (a) Portugal doesn’t have deserts, but it does have a […]
Image: Volvo/Uber Uber, Volvo, and the Future of Taxis By the end of the summer, there should be roughly a hundred self-driving Volvo XC90 SUVs driving around Pittsburgh as part of a $300 million collaboration […]