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The Battle for Attention
On a subway train not long ago, I had the familiar, unsettling experience of standing behind...
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Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation
Alex Eisler, a sophomore at Brown University who studies applied math and computer science, regularly uses...
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Are Flying Cars Here?
At Wisk’s offices, Schrinner told me that air taxis could one day connect remote Indigenous communities...
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How Chinese Students Experience America
I asked whether they would serve in the Chinese military if there were a war.“They wouldn’t...
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Recreating a 90s Screen Saver (Flying Toasters) for the Vision Pro
I recently decided to make an app for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) during a two-week...
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Generating music in the waveform domain (2020)
In November last year, I co-presented a tutorial on waveform-based music processing with deep learning with...
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Hands on with a Science Fair 160-1 electronic projects kit
This particular IC is not too interesting in modern times, it is fairly obscure, and many...
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Smartphone screens are about to become speakers
Today’s mobile-device speakers and haptic generators have several problems. The first is with the components themselves....
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The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam
As the general manager of the Jay Peak ski resort, Bill Stenger rose most days around...
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The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires
The provincial government of Alberta defines a “wildfire of note” as a blaze that could “pose...
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A Teen's Fatal Plunge into the London Underworld
Sharma was calling from Apartment 504. If he’d stepped out onto the balcony, or just looked...
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Restoring audio from the B-58 "Hustler" Voice Warning System
Someone uploaded the B-58 voice warning system audio to the Internet Archive a while back. I've...