June 2022

Cruise robotaxis blocked traffic for hours on this San Francisco street

#robots #cars #cities

Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever

#cities #tech

Give Up GitHub

#programming #business

“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless.

#internet #security

An A-Z of the Languages and Loanwords of the English Lexicon – from Arabic to Zulu!

#cool #language #history

Malls

#pandemic #business #ethics

Hoboken Hasn’t Had a Traffic Death in Four Years. What’s It Doing Right?

#cars #cities #politics #america

Neural networks don’t work like the human brain because they ‘learn’ differently

A neuroscientist explains why it's not so simple to make machines think like us

#generative ai #science

Your Smartwatch's Heart Rate Monitor Was Developed by a Furry

Dr. David Benaron is an inventor whose team at Stanford laid the groundwork for the optical heart rate monitor. He's also a cheetah named Spottacus.

#health #tech #fandom

A 3,400-year-old City Emerges From The Tigris River

#antiquity #cities #climate

Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

#america #language #business

Seattle sets minimum wage requirements for app-based delivery workers

#cities #work #law

Pourquoi les couleurs ont disparu au cinéma ?

#movies #tech #culture