2025-04-05
DARPA Tried Using the Earth's Atmosphere as a Giant Sensor and Detected Something Interesting
While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection....
I Don't Understand the Hate AI Gets In Recruiting
Recruiters now use AI to screen resumes, rank candidates, and conduct video interviews. Up to 90% of applicants submit unqualified resumes. Attempting to screen manually can lead to burnout, consequently...
This Device Translates Thoughts into Real-Time Speech
A novel brain device allowed a woman who had suffered a stroke to speak full sentences for the first time since 2005.
Man Alarmed as His Cognitive Skills Decay After Outsourcing Them to AI
It's a fact of life that automation can make us lazier. Usually, the tradeoffs are worth it. But it feels more pernicious with AI Chatbots, which basically offer to automate...
User Stories Aren’t Specs—They’re Conversations in Disguise
A user story is not a spec. It’s not a requirements doc. And it definitely isn’t something you write, hand off, and walk away from. User stories are intentionally simple.
Build Cleaner Navigation in Jetpack Compose With Just a Few Lines of Code
Navigation in Compose is all about making your app's flow feel natural and effortless. Compose's navigation component lets you map out your app’s journey using simple, intuitive code. It's like...
What if $12 Trillion in Global Corruption Could Be Stopped by DOGE, Blockchain, and AI?
Blockchain—specifically through a mashup of DOGE, X Payments, and AI—can potentially save $12 trillion by 2045.
Are Web3 Testnet Earnings Claims on X Too Good to Be True?
Investigating Web3 Testnet Earnings. Are the Claims on X Too Good to Be True?
The Majority of Writers and Editors Today are Clueless When it Comes to Generative AI
Writer and editor John Kilhefner says the new winners aren’t just good writers -- they’re skilled writers who are great at prompting AI. But according to Kilhefner, “The majority of...
Too Much Focus on Optimization And You Just Might Give Up on 10x Returns
Product innovation brings 3X – 10X value for a company once released. PiggyVest, a savings app, released a managed investment marketplace for its users. GOOG, AMZN and FB have a...
Analysts Are Skeptical of Apple's $1B Deal With Nvidia
Ming-Chi Kuo, the well-regarded Apple analyst, is not buying into the recent buzz about the iPhone maker entering into a $1 billion deal with Nvidia.
Test Shows Alcohol Causing Long-Term Brain Damage
In new rat studies, scientists have found, for the first time, proof of just how bad alcohol impairs cognition — even when sober. According to new, federally-funded research out of...
Learning PenTesting Has Never Been Easier—Check Out These Free Resources for 2025
Penetration Testing is a cyberattack simulation carried out on a system, application, or network to determine vulnerabilities. It's like a virtual "heist," but one carried out ethically to assist with...
AI Can Give Voice to Sign Language, Empowering the Deaf
An estimated 466 million people have disabling hearing loss and rely on visual languages like American Sign Language. AI-powered sign language translation offers a promising solution by automatically translating sign...
The C Programming Myth Rabbit Hole Explained
The notion that the C programming language does not provide encapsulation and isolation is a myth. You don’t have inheritance, but you do have one very important characteristic: you can...
This Is What Happens When You Store Your AI Prompts in the Wrong Place
Would you want your chatbot to start discussing Taylor Swift lyrics instead of providing tech support? Well.. that’s what our chatbot did. Here's why.
Trump Now Reportedly Subjecting His Minions to Lie Detector Tests for Absolute Loyalty
The head of a federal agency was given a polygraph test after an apparent news leak — even though such "lie detection" measures are considered junk science. As Politico reports,...
Here's How to Use Excel's EDATE Function to Return a Specific Date In the Past or Future
EDATE Function returns a date that is a specified number of months before or after a given start date. To understand it, let’s say your car insurance expires 6 months...
Most Outages Don’t Start in Your Database — They Start in Your Cache
Caching is the Swiss Army knife of system design, offering three key benefits: enhanced application performance, improved system availability, and reduced operational costs. Learn how to leverage caching strategies for...
Why metrics alone don’t run Shopify
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