Author: Zach_Wilson
Quordle hints and answers for Monday, August 3 (game #1652)
Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Sunday,…
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Russia debuts anti-Starlink EW system that can blind terminals by overloading ‘satellites’ receiving antennas’
Russia unveils an electronic warfare system designed to interfere with Starlink satellite communications Volna Kupol Garant focuses on satellites instead of disrupting ground communication terminals The new Russian system reportedly jams eight Starlink transmission bands using directed radio signals Russia has unveiled a new electronic warfare system designed to disrupt…
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I defected to the PS5 after 30 years of PC gaming — here’s why I have no regrets about swapping the RAM crisis for the disc crisis
I’ve been an avid PC gamer since the early 1990s. My first computer, bought specifically to play Star Wars: X-Wing, was a plucky 486DX running at 33MHz (cutting-edge at the time — well, only behind the 486DX2, but that was too pricey). I have fond memories of playing Doom on…
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Quote of the day by pioneer of cybernetics Norbert Wiener: ‘The automated machine is the economic equivalent of slave labour’ — foreshadowing the displacement of human labor in the years to come
For as long as humanity has envisioned a future co-existing with machines, there have been fears that labor could be displaced. These fears first sparked during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, but have continued in the years since. Most recently, the rise of generative AI has raised these fears…
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Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing is an instrumental epic of desperate longing
Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar’s debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk, it caught me off guard. That album has no percussion on it at all. Heaven…
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Russia is planning a tethered mother drone carrying up to six wired mini spy UAVs
Russia patented a carrier drone capable of deploying six tethered reconnaissance copters One airborne platform controls multiple surveillance drones through physical cable connections simultaneously Each tethered copter receives power and commands directly from the carrier aircraft A newly-patented Russian drone design turns a single aircraft into a mobile hub for…
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