Even primitiver technology - Boing Boing

Try and try as she may, this little girl just can’t figure out how to play her dad’s Game Boy Color. She really can’t be blamed though, as she was born into a world where touch screens are the norm. This reminds me of two things. 1. When my now-12-year-old daughter was about seven, I […]

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Hit Play, below, to hear a wide-ranging interview with venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, whose shrewd bets include backing Elon Musk in ventures like Tesla and SpaceX. Steve and I talk a bit about Elon in our interview. But we mainly focus on quantum computing – a subject he knows cold from his decade and a […]

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In an astonishing step forward in biomolecular computing, Harvard researchers encoded a 19th century film clip in DNA and stored it inside living bacteria. Later, they sequenced the bacterium’s genome and decoded the film. From IEEE Spectrum: To get a movie into E. coli’s DNA, (neuroscientist Seth) Shipman and his colleagues had to disguise it. […]

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