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Wikipedia Betteridge's law of headlines Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states, "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist,[1] although the general concept is much older.[2] The observation…

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Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…
Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments
GLTI.CH Karaoke Machines by Other Means, Manchester

August 8 2012, 4:56am | Comments
Bookmark DISSIMULATIONS by Andy Cameron
The form of the story permeates every aspect of our cultural life. History, politics, memories, even subjectivity, our sense of identity, are all representations in narrative form, signifiers chained together in…

June 2 2012, 9:51am | Comments
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February 22 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
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August 22 2011, 5:10pm | Comments
Bookmark Violence at the Edge: Tottenham, Athens, Paris
"The everyday experience of liberal capitalism rests upon the violent defence of the boundaries against the other that the system itself produces. That banal and pacifying phrase ‘social exclusion’ allows us…

August 9 2011, 4:39am | Comments
Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation. Firstly from Polish to French, in 1966, by Jean-Michel Jasiensko. This version was then taken…

June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments
Bookmark This will be the Century of Disasters
A half-mile wide twister tore through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, killing nearly 100. The tornado was one of 68 reported across seven states this weekend. Unfortunately, this century will be a…

May 25 2011, 3:52am | Comments
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May 5 2011, 8:31am | Comments
Bookmark To Have Is to Owe
We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce…

April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Bookmark Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?
"Watson is a computer that uncovers meaning in our language, and pinpoints the right answer, instantly. It uses deep analytics to answer questions computers never could before, even the ones on…

February 17 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
Bookmark The lost art of editing
But what happens the rest of the time? Away from the world of freak glitches, what fate befalls the writer as his or her magnum opus enters the publishing production chain?…

February 15 2011, 3:32am | Comments
Bookmark Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive torrent
Download the bbc.closing.sites.archive.torrent file On Monday 24th January 2011 the BBC announced that it would be restructuring its online department - with 360 job losses and the deletion of 200 of…

February 10 2011, 9:08am | Comments
Bookmark Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
So far, the WikiLeaks story has been represented as a struggle between WikiLeaks and the US empire: is the publishing of confidential US state documents an act in support of the…

January 18 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark Russian team prepares to penetrate Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies four kilometres below…

January 9 2011, 11:23am | Comments
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November 19 2010, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark All Programs Considered by Bill McKibben
Radio receives little critical attention. Of the various methods for communicating ideas and emotions—books, newspapers, visual art, music, film, television, the Web—radio may be the least discussed, debated, understood. This is…

October 28 2010, 3:50am | Comments
Bookmark Night Waves: Is the Book Dead?
Philip Dodd goes to one of Britain's largest second hand bookshops and is joined by a panel of publishers, authors and an audience of readers for a public debate that tackles…

October 21 2010, 3:10am | Comments
Bookmark Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick for The Man In…
According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer,…

October 8 2010, 3:45am | Comments
Bookmark Planet Zoo
Look, I wouldn’t trade the 21st century for any other. We have toilet paper and vitamin-fortified milk and a measles vaccine. We can buy avocados in Fairbanks in January. But sometimes,…

September 27 2010, 5:15am | Comments
Bookmark The internet: is it changing the way we think?
Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". "Over the past…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time
Physicists struggling to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics have hailed a theory – inspired by pencil lead – that could make it all very simple IT WAS a speech that changed…

August 11 2010, 3:25am | Comments
Bookmark A world without mosquitoes
So what would happen if there were none? Would anyone or anything miss them? Nature put this question to scientists who explore aspects of mosquito biology and ecology, and unearthed some…

July 27 2010, 8:17am | Comments
Bookmark Plato's stave: academic cracks philosopher's musical code
It may sound like the plot of a Dan Brown novel, but an academic at the University of Manchester claims to have cracked a mathematical and musical code in the works…

July 20 2010, 2:45am | Comments
Bookmark The gut's 'friendly' viruses revealed
In the latest exploration into the universe of organisms inhabiting our bodies, microbiologists have discovered new viral genes in faeces. They find that the composition of virus populations inhabiting the tail…

July 16 2010, 3:49am | Comments
Projects first issue of rattle journal

July 8 2010, 8:55am | Comments
Bookmark 5 Things Old Media Still Doesn’t Get About The Web
Earlier this week, the New York Times company forced the iPad Pulse News Reader app to be pulled from the App Store. The reason? It took the Times’ RSS feed and…

June 17 2010, 4:06am | Comments
Bookmark In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday
While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a printer-size base with wheels…

June 17 2010, 3:26am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World
Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers with…

June 6 2010, 3:54am | Comments

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