Good lordy, look at the time! As we count down the last days of 2017, we look back on the underdog tech stories that flew under the radar this last year. Some of these just deserve a second look, others we suspect will make a bigger impact in the … [Read more...]
Was Dragons Lair A Thing? Stranger Things Have Happened…
The TV series Stranger Things has a special place in our geeky hearts. It’s popular for all the right reasons without attracting the toxic edge of online fanbases like some TV series we could name. Stranger Things is a trip through ‘80s nostalgia via … [Read more...]
Maybe Black Box AI Isn’t So Black After All
Nietzsche warned us about this. He said, “When you gaze long into the Black Box Deep Learning AI algorithm, the black box deep learning AI algorithm will also gaze into you.” Close enough to a quote for the Internet, anyway. “Black Box” AI is this … [Read more...]
Forgotten Unix Tools: The dc Command-Line Calculator
Exploring a Linux or other *Nix equivalent, you come across an ancient, mysterious artifact: dc. There it is in /usr/bin, but what is it for? It is for die-hard command-line wizards, that’s what it’s for. But learn its syntax, and if you’re the kind … [Read more...]
The Year Of Linux On Everything But The Desktop
ZDNet, a tech news site we can’t believe is still around, has declared the winner in the desktop wars: It’s Linux, because the desktop became irrelevant. This news comes on the heels of Linus Torvalds releasing the new 4.10 kernel, with the usual … [Read more...]