Stories by emptybits

How the relentless drive for optimization made baseball impossible to watch

America Doesn’t Know Tofu

FCC Fines 15 Year-Old Pirate Radio Station in NYC $2M

Do Masks Work? It’s a Question of Physics, Biology, and Behavior

All You Touch and All You See: ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ at 50

Life after food? A diabetes drug has become an off-label appetite suppressant

“iPhones are made in hell”: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city

Google Maps Hacks (2020)

High-altitude object shot down off Alaska, US says

Canada's 2023 Guidance on Alcohol and Health: “0 to 2 standard drinks per week”

We Found Subscription Menus in Our BMW Test Car

The Electric Car Sony and Honda Are Working On

Mary Kenneth Keller: the first Ph.D. in computer science in the US (1965)

Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators

Programming by Punch Card

NamX at Paris Motor Show: Hydrogen Powered SUV Concept Using Removable Tanks

Is Cheese Good for You?

Canadian ransomware hacker sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison

Federal judge halts Arizona ban on filming police within 8 feet

Finland will be self-sufficient in electricity in a year or two, says minister

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