Gary Marcus, one of world’s foremost #AI experts, recognizes the positive potential inherent in #Technology, but warns that we must urgently develop regulations against the spread of #Disinformation.
This article describes how journalists sent photographs across the Atlantic “instantly” in 1926. The most amazing thing to me is that the image is literally digitized into “pixels” along a helical scanline, quantized into 5 levels of gray—all through analog means.
So utterly fascinating.
An enterprising person could have used the 5 hole punches to encode 32 levels of gray, or used maybe 3 holes to encode 8 levels of gray, saving 40% of the transmission cost at the expense of making the machines more complicated…
Poco launched the F5! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vladR6TzyuA
This phone is on early-bird sale for under $400, and features a new "mid-range" chip from Qualcomm that's RIGHT ON THE HEELS of premium performance phones from last year.
The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 is a HUGE shot in the arm for mid-priced devices...
“no one writes (or reads) cyberpunk because they think it’s all gonna be fine.
And no one founds — or works for — an organization like the Electronic Frontier Foundation because they’re confident that technology can only be used for good.”
After many months, I seem to have solved my very long boot up times on Manjaro KDE
The last many months I’ve been struggling with having a boot up time of a good 10 – 15 minutes with Manjaro KDE. As this is a rolling distro, my configs are many years old as I don’t do refresh installs every major release, and there have also been many modbu ...continues
I would totally get lost in endless pictures of #soviet#tech. Do you know of any good book to buy or account to #follow about that? Like this Agat, a soviet 8-bit #computer first introduced in 1983.
(1/7) #Whoownsthetruth: #Fakenews, conspiracy theories and manipulated reporting have been with us since the beginning of time. But in today’s digital world, especially on #socialmedia, they are omnipresent and increasingly influencing social values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics and redefining beliefs and facts. #technology
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Social media is kinda melting down right now. Except Mastodon... Mastodon is doing fine...
#SGGQA 298: The Calm Before Google I/O, Twitter Blue is a Flop, Bluesky off to slow start, Facebook Pages Hacked
Are you new to #Mastodon? Are you a lover of #Tech? Are you looking for a permanent server to call home that you can feel comfortable sharing what you love and enjoy with people you can get along with?