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It’s been another fun-filled week of plebes like us being crushed under the heel of big business. Want to take a trip into orbit? You’re gonna need to mortgage your house and your children’s futures. Want to own the last decent MacBook Pro? Tough, Apple now says that the garbage touch panel version is the […]
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San Francisco still doesn’t have a new mayor. But that’s democracy for you. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1878b3895dca7a99d02e9b/master/pass/elections-968031452.jpg
A century ago, the great mathematician David Hilbert posed a probing question in pure mathematics. A recent advance in optimization theory is bringing Hilbert’s work into the modern world. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b0888377f6dac54146e062f/master/pass/UAV_02_32_2880.jpg
While the internet spent the last week virtually paralyzed by the Yanny/Laurel debate, the wheels of industry kept turning. Elon Musk promised rides aboard the upcoming Boring Company system would only cost a buck, MIT built a robotic albatross for oceanic observations and Bosch unveiled its anti-skid maneuvering thrusters for high end motorbikes. Numbers, because […]
It was a big week for interesting calls. Facebook is reportedly looking to hop on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, AT&T admitted that it hired Michael Cohen’s firm for “insights” into the administration, and somehow enough folks watched the YouTube Karate Kid reboot to earn it a second season. Great job everybody? 3 seasons and that’s it: […]
Enlarge / Algorithms, a complicated work in progress. (credit: Getty Images) A review of Sabine Hossenfelder’s book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray begs for a Hamlet introduction. Phrases like “something is rotten at the heart of theoretical physics” fly about like vampire clichés, ready to suck the joy out of any passing writer. […]
This was a big week for huge corporate profits. Microsoft and Nintendo reported healthy business growth to start off the latest earnings season. Amazon announced that it will be bumping the subscription cost for Prime by 20 percent. And a knockoff Mark Zuckerberg separated a number of fools from their hard earned money. Numbers, because […]
It was a chaotic week in the tech world, even before the YouTube HQ shooting. Apple’s pushing its luck by pushing its Mac Pro release to next year, Russia’s mail delivery drone barely got off the ground, and Scott Pruitt’s EPA is doing its best to suffocate California in smog. Numbers, because how else will […]
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