In this video, a nuclear engineer analyzes the concept of powering a computer through typing, as illustrated by an XKCD comic. The video delves into the science and feasibility behind such an idea, ...

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Activist, author and journalist Cory Doctorow coined "enshittification," the American Dialect Society's 2023 Word of the Year, describing how platforms decay and why they're all collapsing at once. In ...

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Last week, Austria-based Swarovski Optik introduced the AX Visio 10×32 binoculars, which the company says can identify over 9,000 species of birds and mammals using image recognition technology. The ...

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Many of us can relate to characters in films or fiction; Jason Swedlow sees himself in the stick figures of the online comic strip xkcd. In a strip published in 2011, cartoonist Randall Munroe pokes ...

The boundary between the atmosphere and space is commonly defined as 62 miles away and would vary depending on the altitude at which the journey, which is not physically possible, began. On Feb. 3, ...

Several decades ago, it took a stand-up comedian like Steven Wright to work in shades of the brilliantly surreal when he deadpanned: “It’s a small world. But I wouldn’t want to paint it.” Today, it ...

This is the source code of the XKCDY app. I built this app primarily as a way to learn Swift and SwiftUI. Because I was learning as I built this, there's probably a few weird architecture / design ...