Technology
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The Machine Learned Its English Somewhere Around the M25
Ask Alexa to do something for you when speaking in a strong Newcastle accent and she will often reply as if you…
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Your Feed Lives Next to a Fjord
Somewhere inside your phone there are billions of transistors. Each one flips between on and off billions of times a second. Each…
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The App Was Not Designed For You. It Was Designed For Your Ancestor.
There is a small red circle sitting on your phone right now and it is making you slightly uncomfortable. Not dramatically uncomfortable.…
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The Shell That Became a Touchscreen
Somewhere in the 1940s, a mathematician sat down to solve a problem that had nothing to do with ordering pizza. The problem…
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The Trick Your Phone Pulls Every Single Time You Load A Page
Pull up a website – any website – and something quietly extraordinary happens before the first pixel appears. Most people assume the…