Design-by-committee made USB-C the mishmash of capabilities it is today.. People always want everything and the kitchen sink, but don’t want all the controls to make sure everything works well together, so you end up with hacks after the fact like this stupid cable authentication proposal, which I guarantee, they will…

“computers could be set up to only accept data transfers from verified USB devices, meaning the old security trick of dropping USB sticks infected with malware won’t work”

They’re using a laser to vaporize some material, whose ejection causes an equal and opposite reaction.. ie, they’re using a laser to light a rocket engine.. Big F-ing deal.. This is the subject of 10000 other Youtube videos: some guy lighting matches with a big-ass laser pointer.. It could be accomplished a million…

So what this shows is that basically, Apple is wrong?

“British spaceman”?? Who let him up there?? No wonder the wiring is so horrible.. Brits and electrical wiring simply don’t mix.. Anyone remember Lucas Electric??

What, no mention of the “bang” notation that was the predecessor to the “@”?? No mention of ‘uucp’, the protocol that essentially made the “internet” work before there was an internet?

Why are they so sure that it was *humans* using lizard parts to paint the walls? Maybe it was that now-extinct race of hyperintelligent lizards that used their *own* hands??

Tomatoes maybe, but definitely not strawberries.. Yes, strawberries grow in shit, but they also do not last very long before they go rotten and moldy.. Everyone knows that if you buy a tub of strawberries at the store, you have them in your desert that night or put them in your smoothie tomorrow morning, but they…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a public Facebook post saying that his AI team is “getting close” to achieving the same exact thing. He wrote that “the researcher who works on this, Yuandong Tian, sits about 20 feet” from his desk, and added, “I love having our AI team right near me so I can learn from what…