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thisistheverge: Anki Drive’s tiny, iPhone-controlled toys are the pace cars for a robot revolution After four and a half years working mostly in secret, Anki is off to the races. The San Francisco startup, which has raised $50 million to bring robots into everyday life, is making good on that promise with a racing game…
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kateoplis: “Not too long ago, I created this OkCupid profile for a nude self portrait-themed art exhibition in New York City. The idea was to combine the negativity and honesty that’s generally reserved for anonymous forums and offline conversations with the transparent accountability of a personal profile. I wanted to see how men would respond…
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Innovation Factory: Magic Squares
Innovation Factory: Magic Squares chicagoif: While designing The Magic Cube, we spent quite some time studying the number sequences that are featured on each of the cube’s six faces. We’d like to share some of the interesting facts we learned about them & today we’re focusing on the history of The Magic Square: Magic Squares…
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kottke.org: Debugging a live Saturn V rocket
kottke.org: Debugging a live Saturn V rocket jkottke: Great story from the memoirs of William Moore, an Electrical Systems expert for the Apollo program in the 1960s. Moore writes about the time that he and his team had to take a trip out to the launchpad to fix something on the first unmanned launch of…