Stories by samizdis

Word game at the cutting edge of computer science

Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly

The Clock That Made Power Grids Possible

Roadkill to Become Fair Game in Virginia

The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk

Beware the Lides of March

What's fueling the commercial fusion hype?

KitchenAid Did It Right 87 Years Ago

Agile process can spur micromanagement and poorly maintained code

Reddit's third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse

Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words

Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds

The Barcode Engineered Its Own Downfall

X-Rays Reveal a New Phase of Matter

Bottled water has 'up to 100 times' more bits of plastic than previously feared

If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?

Fox Corp. launches blockchain platform to negotiate with AI firms

Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE

Half Past Dementia

Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968 sounds beautifully bizarre

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