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Up to that point, all commercial video game products had been based on discrete, dedicated logic circuitry to generate on-screen gameplay. None in commercial production used a computer as the heart of its architecture. The Odyssey, developed by a team of engineers at defense contractor Sanders Associates, utilized mid-1960s technology that precluded the used of…
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Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone fell Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico’s border with California.
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protoslacker: Star Spangled Banner – Jose Feliciano (story and 1968 video) Jose Feliciano I’m 59 and goofy. I was 13 in 1968 and I’m sure I was goofy then. In 1968 I might have known who The Doors were, but I certainly knew who Jose Feliciano from his rendition of Light My Fire on the radio.…
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Visiting Artist Talk (virtual) by LaTurbo Avedon (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Does the Uncanny Valley exist? [2010]
mostlysignssomeportents: According to all of the roboticists and computer scientists we interviewed, the uncanny is in short supply during face-to-face contact with robots. Two of the robots that inspire the most terror—and accompanying YouTube comments—are Osaka University’s CB2, a child-like, gray-skinned robot, and KOBIAN, Waseda University’s hyper-expressive humanoid. In person, no one rejected the robots.…
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it8bit: Monument Valley in Numbers (via:adoublep)
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Friendly reminder
reclaimingthelatinatag: There is no way to look ‘Latino’. You can be black, brown, white, you can have Blue eyes, brown eyes, blonde hair, brown, red etc. If you’re Latin@, no one can take that away from you, and certainly not based on how you look. Love yourself. -Gabi
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When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life…. [With poetry, one] is capable of going beyond the limitations of coherent logic, and conveying…
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thinksquad: http://www.wearedorothy.com/artwork/casualties-of-war/
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Drug-buying robot arrested in Switzerland
Drug-buying robot arrested in Switzerland underfrillies: laughterkey: The bot that bought ecstasy pills and forged passports has been seized by authorities. Free him