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Monday, May 30, 2022

Fractal Woodburning: Don't Try This At Home—Or Anywhere Else

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  Some topics are so intrinsically hazardous that one hesitates to write about them, on the off chance that someone who ne...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Driver of Tesla on Autosteer Charged with Vehicular Manslaughter

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  Shortly after the first commercially available driver-assist autopilot-equipped vehicles appeared on roadways, pundits r...
Monday, May 16, 2022

What Tom Brady and I Have In Common

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  Tom Brady, as every sentient resident of the U. S. probably knows, is widely regarded as the greatest football quarterba...
Monday, May 09, 2022

Is Cryptocurrency the Future of Money?

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  The Silicon-Valley firm Nvidia recently got in trouble with the SEC for not disclosing that a good bit of its profits in...
Monday, May 02, 2022

Finding Drones in Peace and War

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  DJI, the world's largest drone maker, has announced that it is stopping all shipments of new products to both Ukrain...
Monday, April 25, 2022

A Musk-Owned Twitter: Threat or Promise?

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  After buying nine percent of outstanding Twitter shares recently, Elon Musk has announced his intention to buy Twitter a...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Is the Internet Making Us Too Literate?

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  Writing in the Spring 2022 issue of The New Atlantis , British author Kit Wilson wonders if the Internet is endangering ...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Will Solid-State Batteries Bail Out Electric Vehicles?

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  Last week, the U. S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a recall for electric-vehicle batteries made ...