Learn to Type by Copying Literary Masters
A new project by a Canadian techie named Adam Doquiatan aims to teach you to type by asking you to copy great literature. The site, called...
Trump falsely claims there’s ‘a cure’ for COVID-19 in rambling Facebook, Twitter posts
Donald Trump is spreading dangerous misinformation — again — about the coronavirus on both Facebook and Twitter. Late Wednesday afternoon the president posted a rambling video...
Trump’s Department of Labor Is Targeting Microsoft for Pledging to Hire More Black Managers
Trump’s Department of Labor has opened an investigation into whether Microsoft violated federal law by promising to hire more Black and African American managers and leaders,...
Nvidia Wants to Eliminate Compression During Video Calls by Using Neural Networks to Perfectly Render Your Face
There are a thousand reasons to hate hopping on a video call every 10 minutes to chat with your co-workers, among them the ugly video compression artifacts...
Presidential Debate Commission Clearly Not Playing With a Full Deck
The first telephone was invented in 1861. The underlying technology evolved greatly over the next 100 years, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that Americans stopped...
Russian Design for a Reusable Rocket Sure Looks Familiar
Roscosmos is moving ahead with plans to build Russia’s first reusable rocket. Glancing at the design, it appears the Russian space agency doesn’t feel the need...
GPT-3 Bot Spends a Week Replying on Reddit, Starts Talking About the Illuminati
A Reddit user went on an impressive comment streak last week. The user stuck to the pages of the mega-popular AskReddit subforum, and their responses were...
6 frightening thoughts I had while watching Netflix’s ‘Hubie Halloween’
Adam Sandler is back in a movie that is very Adam SandlerHubie Halloween isn’t Uncut Gems — rather, it’s the type of comedy where Sandler plays...
10 Jedi Facilities That Survived Star Wars’ Order 66
Order 66 may have massacred most of the Jedi, but it wasn’t just people that survived Palpatine’s purge. The Jedi existed for eons before the twilight...
Did the Coronavirus Plan the Vice Presidential Debate?
The vice presidential debate tonight between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris looks set to go ahead, despite Pence’s recent exposure to people who later tested positive...
