Old Tamagotchi, new hardware
Breathing new life into an old classic.
Is 'decolonisation' anything more than a buzzword in science?
It’s provocative. It gets the people going!
Why do gamblers risk it all on longshots?
How do you like your odds in the morning?
Thunder Roads: visualising the 2021 Formula One racing season
Joey Cherdarchuk created an interactive data viz site for the 2021 Formula One racing season, using lightning plots to visualise the races and sounds playing in the background to add to the ambience. You’ll enjoy it if you’re a Verstappen fan. Not so much if you’re a Hamilton fan.
Halt and Catch Fire text posts memes
It’s not the meme. It’s the meme that gets you to the meme.
Look, it's a black hole!
That is the first ever photo of a black hole, Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short). It’s 25,800 light-years away, not very active, and if it were a person, “it would only consume the equivalent of a grain of rice every million years”. Phew!
Steve Kobes on the life of a pixel
A lot goes into making internet content ready for people to view on their screens.
6 names for search engines based on spider species
Eensy weensy spider, crawled the entire Web!
A MiniDisc Player can now support full data transfer thanks to this hack
Move over, compact disc and MP3. The MiniDisc is gonna make a comeback (maybe)!
Machine learning and NLP with Dr. Rachael Tatman
Sit down with a cup of Java (geddit?!) and listen to the latest news in machine learning and NLP.
Woah, someone cracked the Apple Pippin!
When life gives you apples… crack pips? I don’t know either.
What did tech think of JavaScript in 1995?
Sometimes, tech people get it right.