#Technology

Something really weird happened in Argentina this week. It's hard to explain to anyone not living here, but I'll try. Historically, Argentina had the most ridiculous prices for imported products.
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NASA paid tribute to Tipu Sultan's contribution to Rocket Technology by hanging this painting of Tipu Sultan's Army fighting the British with Mysorean rockets (1780 Anglo Mysore War) on their
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It’s almost like the obsession with super hero movies coincided with a cultural hope that somebody, anybody would save us from ourselves without there needing to be mass action or
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There have been questions and lamentations about what I wrote in the middle of the night about original ideas in Africa while yet reviewing another bunch of startups. I stand
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@baglandeniz As a former Arendt scholar I can answer a little: What Agamben & Arendt share is a Verfallsgeschichte (history of decline, I think), they both disbelief modernity's capacity for
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RCA was a major record label, but also committed to investing in consumer entertainment technology. In this 1935 article, the company boasted about its promising R&D work in television. Today
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Attending this day long series of sessions on "Making Technology Gender Inclusive" by @INBreakthrough & @ArthanCareers. Fantastic lineup of speakers on designing inclusive digital ecosystems. https://www.arthansocialforum.org/
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This story is even wilder than you heard. Please take a good look at how Pinterest treated @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu. Based on interviews w/ex-employees and copies of investigation findings, email correspondence
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1/6 Hey @ShiraOvide, You wrote: “There are complicated questions that voters have to consider, including whether it’s better to have more jobs with less of a safety net, or fewer
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About -that- Bloomberg Magic Leap article...Sure, there's _some_ truth to it. The company and its leadership have certainly made their fair share of mistakes.BUT... /1 ...what the critics miss entirely
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I was part of team that surveyed residents of Christiansburg, Virginia—the site of the most advanced residential drone delivery trial in the United States, launched by the Alphabet subsidiary @Wing
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NEW: Newly obtained records shows that law enforcement regularly breaks into encrypted phones.That’s because at least 2,000 U.S. law enforcement agencies have tools to get into locked phones and extract
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This is a fascinating story about global supply chains and advanced weapons development. But I can’t get past one irksome detail.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-hypersonic-missiles-american-technology/2021/04/07/37a
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When Q posted this last night I started looking. This is what I found.. http://projectcamelot.org/project_looking_glass.html https://www.auricmedia.net/forbidden-technology-part-ii-project-looking-glass/ http://thelivingmoon.com/42stargate/03files/P
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The Government is pursuing a no deal Brexit for the worst possible reason: to direct technology markets. As I explained for @CapX, state R&D schemes and bailouts reward unproductive companies
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No big secret here. Left or not, millennials are so used to zero-sum hypercompetition that someone losing is the same as winning to them, there is no sense of solidarityIf
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