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The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
A seventeenth-century illustration for Rumi’s epic poem “Masnavi.” Rumi is often called a mystic, a saint,...
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Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was much larger than Valve
I will never understand, dear reader, why we keep running into this baffling issue of Valve...
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California Nominates Steve Jobs for Its American Innovation $1 Coin
What you need to know: Steve Jobs, a visionary of global scale, has been nominated to...
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The marketing genius of Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson has grabbed the world's attention with his Don't Die lifestyle. You might have seen...
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SEAL Advisory on DPRK Threat to Crypto Exchanges
Less than 12 hours ago, DPRK operatives stole over US$1.5 billion in Ethereum from Bybit. This...
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Who Wants to Work in a Factory?
For more than half a century, we Americans have distanced ourselves from the making of our...
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The Coleco Adam: An 8-Bit Personal Computer Failure
The Coleco Adam was a personal computer (really, a home computer) system released by Coleco in...
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A Vending Machine, on the Internet
These days, every new business seems to be a SaaS. I remember when software worked differently:...
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Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you?
Every February we see a big spike in retailers running sneaker launches on EQL to coincide...
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WhatsApp, Signal Sign letter against UK privacy bill, say they will not comply (2023)
Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted chat apps have come together to sign a letter warning of...
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SVDQuant+NVFP4: 4× Smaller, 3× Faster FLUX with 16-bit Quality on Blackwell GPUs
Muyang Li*, Yujun Lin*, Zhekai Zhang*, Tianle Cai, Xiuyu Li, Junxian Guo, Enze Xie, Chenlin Meng,...
