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Single-minded voice interfaces in sci-fi: a smug toll door, a castrato ATM, and 4,000+ talking machines.

The boss key let 1980s PC gamers swap a game for a fake spreadsheet the instant the boss walked by. Some hid a joke.

Kevin Kelly says latent space is a new art medium: a map of billions of dimensions where every idea has an address.

Jan Sloot said his coding system stored a whole film in 1KB. Investors bought in -- then he died and the code vanished.

The FTC's 10-year settlement makes John Deere give farmers and independent shops the same repair tools as its dealers.

Meta emotion-tracking patent: a wearable that records you all day and reads your feelings from sighs and laughter.

IP over Avian Carriers is a real 1990 internet standard for sending data by homing pigeon, with 55% packet loss.

Atlassian, Adobe, and Amazon are throttling AI use as costs spiral, one firm's bill hitting $15 million a month.

PocketMage is a crowdfunded PDA with a tactile keyboard and e-paper display, running a custom open-source OS on ...

Camels rejected early robot riders, so engineers added mannequin faces, sunglasses, silks, and the perfume of human jockeys.