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• What is AI really?

  By Shaun on September 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s a catch all for a collection of research and technologies as per this article. And the part of AI that we see the most is machine learning as described in this article. When we talk about AI these days,… Read More ›

• Why I still wear the Apple Watch

  By Shaun on September 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The Apple Watch is the last watch most of us will ever wear. Watches, as a fashion statement and a tool, are fading and things like the Apple Watch are the last vestige of these strange objects that William Gibson… Read More ›

• Remembering the computer that gave birth to PC gaming

  By Shaun on September 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Contrarily, my wife was half way through Super Mario Bros. on the Raspberry Pi by the time I’d finished installing the Rise of the Tomb Raider disc. The truth is, it wasn’t much better in 1991, when I received a… Read More ›

• How to discipline kids

  By Shaun on September 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    “The best you can shoot for is influence, not control,” Green told Business Insider. “And that means your role is more of a partner than that of lord and master.” More at Business Insider. I suppose it depends on… Read More ›

• Posters for every single Star Trek Next Generation episode

  By Shaun on September 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  You can see all 178 of Ortiz’s posters collected in Star Trek The Next Generation: The Art of Juan Ortiz, which came out this week. According to the press release, Ortiz was “inspired by indie-film and black-light posters, comics and… Read More ›

• An inverted pyramid home

  By Shaun on September 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    Tokyo-based Makoto Takei + Chie Nabeshima /TNA designed the home to contrast the landscape, and to surprise and delight. Part of the Solo Houses project, which included design proposals from twelve architects, the pyramid volume houses a variety of… Read More ›

• Boys and Girls

  By Shaun on September 6, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  John Lewis has become the first UK retailer to remove gender labels from its children’s clothing. The department store chain has not only taken “girls” and “boys” labels from clothes, but has also done away with the separate sections in… Read More ›

• How are smartphones affecting teenagers?

  By Shaun on September 6, 2017 • ( 1 )

  A generation who have spent their entire adolescence with smartphones are feeling the effects. My understanding is that teenage crime is down, under-age sex is down and that many children are actually more social than the generation before. All of… Read More ›

• We’ve predicted and broken human population limits for centuries

  By Shaun on September 6, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Worries about population expansion resurfaced with World War I. “Population pressure is always a major cause of war,” remarked biologist Raymond Pearl in his 1925 book The Biology of Population Growth. As head statistician for the U.S. Food Administration during… Read More ›

• This could have been the future

  By Shaun on September 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson. Eventually, this would lead to the ascendancy of the cassette tape… Read More ›

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