We went to Shenzhen, China to watch RoboMasters, the world’s biggest, most complex, and completely over-the-top student robotics competition.
i dont think ive seen this episode of doctor who before
Crypto was so new and so radical in its implications that inspiration simply couldn’t come from science, he thought; it could only come from science fiction. Vernor Vinge’s novella “True Names” came to May’s attention in 1986. “You need to read this,” a friend told him, giving him a dog-eared Xerox copy of the entire short story. Vinge feared total identification and transparency: “It occurred to me that a true name is like a serial number in a large database,” the science fiction writer recalled later. The names could serve as identifiers, connecting otherwise disparate information, as what intelligence officers call “selectors.” Whoever had access to a true-names database would have power over the objects in the database.
The cyber-struggle is real. Vox’s Phil Edwards spoke to one of the founders of @ Cafe, an internet cafe that launched just as the internet was coming into the public eye.
the guy at 73 seconds is amazing
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