What's in the bailouts for Silicon Valley?
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A crisis in silicon valley! A ray of hope!
Bad news! Money is no longer free.
...the platform exposes even beginner programmers to the gender-biases of technical communities.
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If a society consisted of human beings who had been partly engineered or edited, would we think about human life in the same way or would we lose a sense of reciprocity with others?
As we become ever more remote from ‘meatspace’, it’s worth considering the role the scalpel and the needle may play in that development.
‘They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence’, rasps Kyle Reese in The Terminator, referring to the Skynet computer system that launched a nuclear attack against humanity in the catastrophe known as Judgment Day. The trope is as old as science fiction itself, and shadows the genre with all of the tenacity of an Uzi-toting T-800.
In 2021 the National Film and Sound Archive released new footage of the last known thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
Today [18th June] is Download Day!
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The third version of Firefox has been released today.
Firefox is synonymous with: security, stability and ease of use. If you want to try it out… it is only a small download and installing is a cinch.
If not, well that’s fine …
After several weeks of intermittent failed attempts I finally managed to get root on my crapass phone.
“Getting root” has a different meanings here in Australia but in this case it refers to gaining full control of my telephone operating system. A bizarre idea when I stop and think about …