However, one thing is for sure— it’s difficult to deny that the metaverse is no longer a wild idea pulled straight out of a science fiction film. Facebook/Meta has just added fuel to a fire that has already b
Over martinis at a restaurant in Philadelphia, she told me the story of the one Christmas they spent away from home over 40 years ago, at Uncle Joe and Aunt Aurelia’s house in Connecticut. Her holiday tale was straight out of a National Lampoon movie: Nine people crammed in an old stat...
“At the end of July in 2017, I am informed by the DOJ Inspector General's Office that I’m under investigation for political text messages and honestly, I have no idea what they’re talking about,” she told me. “I have no recollection. And initially they’re very coy about i...
As well as writing crossword puzzles for Paris magazines, he had already written a 5,000-word palindrome, a text that reads the same forwards and backwards, like the well-known “A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.” But his friends thought this task would be beyond him. Perec took up...
we can sense him reciting the words of Neil McCauley in his head: “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in thirty seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” Even still, it is a different idea at work here, one about longing ...
“My only thought was, ‘I’m going to die, and my mom has no idea where I am.’” Somers pointed to one particularly traumatic incident, which she says took place in October 2010. “He had texted me and he was like, ‘I’m in L.A., you have an hour to get to me...
Well, one big reason may be that @x already belongs to a Twitter user, one who has actively been using the platform since they registered the handle in March 2007. "I haven't been contacted by Twitter / Elon," said Gene X. Hwang, co-founder of event photo company Orange Photography ...
I’ve spoken to a couple of Norwegian scientists who think this is a very bad idea. They have a lot of company. • We made it to 1.48°C in 2023! 0.17°C higher than last year, and we could break 1.5 in just a few months! Come on, you ecocidal shitstains! Let’s show ...
Packed into the rear module is also a LiDAR scanner for augmented reality apps. If you have absolutely no idea what that is, it's really okay. LiDAR stands for "light detection and ranging" and it uses a Time of Flight sensor (for depth) to measure reflected light. ...
What can we learn from the text? A.Practice makes a quick mind. B.Brain research started ten years ago. C.Dr. Merzenich is a scientist in computer. D.People believed nothing could stop the brain slowing down. Which of the following agrees with the writer’s idea? A.The training method...