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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 all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Perhaps the new tagline for ErrorStates should be, “Working technologies are all alike; but

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? And most importantly, what is the question to the answer “42”?The question had eluded mankind for centuries. But one day it finally happened: The

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 eyes. Windows 10 had restarted my computer without permission yet again — to install yet another forced OS update onto my solid state drive. The craziest

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 follow the linesman instead of the actual game. Many viewers complained they missed their team scoring a goal because the camera "kept thinking the

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’ve watched enough movies to know that all of the ones in America are yellow. But in every other country I’ve visited, taxis have

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