On August 27th, 2026 with 22 comments
Wired reports that OpenAI is testing a new "Persistent mode" for Codex that would let the agent keep working until explicitly "put to sleep," proactively...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 22 comments
Google is rolling out a Chrome feature called "Skills" that lets users save Gemini prompts as reusable one-click workflows they can run across multiple tabs....
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On March 12th, 2026 with 26 comments
Anthropic updated Claude so it can automatically generate charts, diagrams, and other interactive visualizations directly inside conversations, rather than...
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On April 12th, 2024 with 36 comments
Kyle Wiggers reports via TechCrunch: OpenAI announced today that premium ChatGPT users -- customers paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise -- can now...
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On June 23rd, 2022 with 25 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Search Engine Land: Twitter is testing a new feature that would eliminate the constraints of its 280-character tweet...
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On October 27th, 2021 with 7 comments
LinkedIn is rolling out a new platform for freelancers to help it better compete against the likes of Fiverr and Upwork. TechCrunch reports: Today it is...
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On December 14th, 2019 with 53 comments
In an exclusive interview with Gamespot, Partner Director of Program Management for Team Xbox Jason Ronald revealed a new feature of the Xbox Series X: the...
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On December 29th, 2015 with 174 comments
Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading authors, inventors, and futurists. Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the...
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On December 10th, 2015 with 83 comments
Mike Godwin worked as the first staff counsel of the EFF and served as general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation. He has been a contributing editor of...
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On November 18th, 2015 with 42 comments
A few weeks ago you had the chance to ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan about programming and their upcoming book, The Go Programming Language (available...
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On November 17th, 2015 with 20 comments
No, working your company's trade show or conference booth isn't your job. But sooner or later, an awful lot of people (including me) get tagged for booth duty...
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On November 11th, 2015 with 129 comments
Jeff Atwood is an author, entrepreneur, and software developer. He runs the popular programming blog Coding Horror and is the co-founder of Stack Overflow...
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On July 28th, 2015 with 36 comments
Recently you had a chance to ask animal behavior expert and autism advocate Dr. Temple Grandin a question. Below you'll find her answers about factory farming,...
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On May 11th, 2015 with 45 comments
A week ago you had the chance to ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis about wasting hours at work reading stories about Florida, and his Kentucky gubernatorial...
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On April 29th, 2015 with 127 comments
For many, the day would not be complete without checking Fark.com for the latest funny or weird news. Inspired by the numerous links to interesting news...
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On April 23rd, 2015 with 0 comments
A one-on-one interview with Philippe Khan, who argues his case for activity-tracking Swiss smartwatches, and comments on Fullpower's changing relationship with...
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On March 23rd, 2015 with 25 comments
Last week you had a chance to ask Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) creator and monocle enthusiast Zach Weiner about his comics, reading classy, and his...
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On February 25th, 2015 with 31 comments
The former Vice President of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Matt Keller is currently the Senior Director of the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE. The...
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On February 17th, 2015 with 210 comments
Stephen Wolfram's accomplishments and contributions to science and computing are numerous. He earned a PhD in particle physics from Caltech at 20, and has been...
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On February 13th, 2015 with 35 comments
In between nodding earnestly as hopeful exhibitors told him how wonderful their products were, Slashdot's Timothy Lord took a look at some of the less-serious...
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On February 4th, 2015 with 271 comments
Today's interviewee, Viktoria Tsukanov, is one of the executives at predictive marketing company Mintigo who did a study in January, 2015 that seemed to show...
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On February 4th, 2015 with 53 comments
A while ago you had a chance to ask Executive Director of the Tor project Andrew Lewman about fighting laws and technology that threaten anonymity and the...
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On February 2nd, 2015 with 20 comments
A while ago you had a chance to ask former Navy officer, professor, and famed ocean explorer Robert Ballard about shipwrecks, his work with the Ocean...
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On December 3rd, 2014 with 48 comments
A few weeks ago, you had a chance to ask Malcolm Gladwell about his writing and social science research. Below you'll find his answers to your questions.
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On December 1st, 2014 with 107 comments
Recently, you had a chance to ask child prodigy, author and activist, Adora Svitak, about education and women In STEM and politics. Below you'll find her...
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On November 26th, 2014 with 152 comments
Bennett Haselton writes A judge rules that a county has to turn over the IP addresses that were used to
access a county mayor's Dropbox account, stating that...
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On November 12th, 2014 with 35 comments
samzenpus writes Rachel Sussman is a photographer whose work covers the junction of art, science, and philosophy. Perhaps her most famous work is the "Oldest...
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On November 10th, 2014 with 61 comments
samzenpus writes Andrew Lewman wears many hats: biologist, advocate against domestic violence, programmer, Executive Director of the Tor project and a member...
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On September 2nd, 2014 with 220 comments
Having started 4chan when he was 15, Christopher Poole, better known as "moot", is indirectly responsible for almost every meme you've ever seen. The group...
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On August 25th, 2014 with 300 comments
Bennett Haselton writes After footage of James Foley's beheading by ISIS terrorists was posted
online on Tuesday, Twitter and Youtube elected to remove any...
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