Software Error Handling is Hard I’d like to do a deep dive into some different ways of handling errors across programming languages, but this so far is the best
Spotted 015 - The Building Glitches Spotted in St. Louis, Missouri. The entire building - a fancy hotel? - was decked out in display panels. An architectural gimmick I’ve been
Spotted 014 - The Future of Fast Food, Part 2 Following up on the last post, spotted in a Taco Bell in Arizona. Above, a better error state – an option for how to continue the
Spotted 012 - Link NYC, Part 2 A few new additions to the “Weathered Tech x LinkNYC” canon. They remind me of the famous opening lines of Anna Karenina: “Happy families are
Spotted 013 - The Future of Fast Food Internet Explorer 11 is not so future in my book. While I’m not a food blogger, I’m happy to support Plant Power’s
AI & ML I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”. I didn’t like its answer and neither will you. With growing excitement, I typed the prologue into the console: Why is there something rather than nothing? How is it possible for Universe the exist?
Software Forced Updates, Microsoft Edition I stepped away from my computer for dinner, halfway through writing a story for The Verge. When I got back, I couldn’t believe my
Machine Vision AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game For Fans After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head For Ball The AI camera appeared to mistake the man's bald head for the ball for a lot of the match, repeatedly swinging back to
Data Bias Captchas Don't Prove You're Human Captcha images don't prove you're human, they prove that you're American: Taxis in my country are generally black. I’
Software A History of SABRE Airline Software The trajectory of air travel changed after a chance meeting between the president of American Airlines, and an IBM salesman — on an American flight. IBM,
Machine Vision Hacked Billboards Can Make Teslas See 'Phantom Objects,' Causing Them to Swerve or Stop Abruptly Street signs are designed for people, but more and more car "vision" systems are relying on them for their own guidance. Is there
Security Co-op is using facial recognition tech to scan and track shoppers Every time someone enters one of the 18 shops using the tech cameras scan their faces. These CCTV images are converted to numerical data and