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cars Silicon Valley is raiding tech academia: "Uber would like to buy your Robotics Department" Xeni Jardin

computer history 10 PRINT "NOSTALGIA", 20 GOTO 10 – Wired reminisces about BASIC Yoy Luadha

Whistle defiers Defective Boeing flight catches fire, hospitalizing 10 victims on board (video) Carla Sinclair

makers Maker jargon and slang for 2022 Gareth Branwyn

tabletop gaming E-ink playing cards prototype is really cool Gareth Branwyn

art This houseplant wields a wicked machete Mark Frauenfelder

books A search engine for weird old books Gareth Branwyn

Musical instruments This instrument is a "horror cinematic noise generator" Mark Frauenfelder

noise pollution Car alarms are "idiotic, selfish forms of noise pollution that do nothing to deter crime" Mark Frauenfelder

art Enchanting birdsong synthesizers in the shape of birds David Pescovitz

writing Em dash defended Rob Beschizza

search engines This search engine gives you weird old book scans Mark Frauenfelder

wordle Six things Wordle's creator got right Mark Frauenfelder

art Fun web app for doodling inspired by its creator's elementary school doodling "rules" David Pescovitz

tips The novelty effect: how switching to a different word processor can improve your writing Mark Frauenfelder

writing See how stories look when you get rid of all the words but leave the punctuation Thom Dunn

COVID-19 GPT-3 is able to accurately predict a lot about COVID-19 Clive Thompson