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Many of you probably remember the company "Magic" from several years ago, which made waves by being a concierge service whose entire customer-facing experience was simply a phone number that you could simply text and…

As a new father, I've found it extremely blissful to spend the evenings reading to my child. As he grows older, the one thing I wish existed was a way to much more readily indicate the actual words I was reading to him…

I remember many years ago seeing a demo from an algorithm from MIT which took a simple raw video of a baby and, with clever video manipulation, could so clearly augment changes between frames that it made it even…

This is a complete shot in the dark: About a week or so ago, someone here posted an interesting project where they had made their own youtube video player allowing it to only offer up content from a select group of…

I think I may be going crazy, but I installed iOS 15 and I keep swearing that my screen is bigger than it once was. That's... obviously not the case, but I can't help but think that something in the UI changes in iOS 15…

Hi everyone, I remember reading here (I believe) an article which someone wrote detailing how Google API endpoints could leak if a particular account was logged in or not. To make things even worse, the researcher…

Why I'm asking this: I've been using thanksgiving weekend to learn as much as I can about React&Redux, and I remembered how in 2008 I took a beginning CS class that was especially challenging because it was all on…

I am in Cuba for a week for business and pleasure. Internet here is, unsurprisingly, incredibly scarce and insanely expensive. Even for foreign businesses, 1mb connections can cost in the thousands of dollars a month.…

Watching the keynote today, I couldn't help but feel like this was the end of hybrid apps. For a long time, the large downside to building hybrid apps was that performance -- especially for large apps with lots of…