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How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
An exploration of the technical methods Atari used to apply side art to its arcade cabinets.
How to Earn a Billion Dollars
A discussion on the economic and strategic theories behind earning a billion dollars.
Lisp's Influence on Ruby
An analysis of how Lisp's functional programming paradigms influenced the design and implementation of the Ruby language.
Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It
A technical discussion regarding signal processing or communication interference and 'poisoning' the signal.
The new Sonos Play has become my go-to desk and kitchen speaker
A review of the new Sonos Play speaker's performance as a desk and kitchen speaker.
The impossible dream of the universal remote
A retrospective on the failure and history of the Harmony universal remote and the difficulty of creating a universal standard.
Visa ChatGPT integration enables AI agent retail purchasing
Visa integrates ChatGPT to enable AI agents to perform autonomous retail purchases and checkout processes.
Xebia: Why AI agents fail without the right data foundation
Xebia's CTO discusses the critical need for a strong data foundation to prevent the failure of agentic AI implementations.
Siri AI arrives with Google inside, and much of the world is locked out
Apple integrates Google AI into Siri, but the rollout is limited by regional restrictions.
McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system
McDonald's is testing a Google-backed AI system called ArchIQ for drive-thru order taking and restaurant operations.
The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
A retrospective look at the evolution, rise, and eventual decline of JavaScript since 2014.
Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later
A technical exploration of Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, examining its design and legacy 40 years later.
Firewood Splitting Simulator
A simulator focused on the mechanics of splitting firewood.
Solid-state batteries still aren’t ready, but gels are
An analysis of the current state of battery technology, arguing that gel electrolytes are a more immediate viable alternative to solid-state batteries.
Google researchers introduce 'faithful uncertainty,' allowing LLMs to offer best guesses instead of hallucinations
Google researchers propose 'faithful uncertainty' to reduce LLM hallucinations by aligning a model's linguistic doubt with its internal statistical confidence.
NanoClaw and JFrog launch 'immune system' to block AI agents from downloading malicious code
NanoClaw and JFrog launch a security integration to prevent autonomous AI agents from downloading malicious code by routing requests through vetted registries.
PixelRAG beats text parsers on accuracy and cuts AI agent token costs 10x
PixelRAG introduces a vision-based retrieval system that uses screenshots instead of text parsing, improving RAG accuracy and reducing token costs.
Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights
Microsoft releases SkillOpt, an open-source framework that treats AI agent skills (markdown files) as trainable objects to optimize procedural behavior without updating model weights.
Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code, a terminal-native AI coding assistant with a sophisticated memory architecture that outperforms Claude Code on long-horizon tasks.
Coinbase for Agents: Automating portfolio trading with AI
Coinbase launches a service for AI agents to automate portfolio trading and financial execution.