A couple of Georgia Tech computer science students recently demonstrated a system that converts tongue and mouth movements into text. It uses eyeglasses that beam a radio signal into the user's head to measure changes inside the closed mouth. They say it's good for silently talking to AI chatbots in offices, libraries, and co-working spaces. — Read the rest

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Intel's stock price fell 9% today after a bad week that saw the company lose more than a third of its value. It's lost more than half of its value since the summer highs, in what Jared Blikre describes as "tech wreckage" and Intel's worst day since 1974. — Read the rest

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Personal computers have become unaffordable for many as datacenter construction gobbles up all the components. If the joke was that the AI guys don't want you to have your own machine, it turns out not to be a joke at all! — Read the rest

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Overgrown is a Chrome browser extension that plants seeds in neglected browser tabs, which slowly become overwhelmed by spreading foliage. Creator Charlie Gerard was inspired by a creative exercise around the word and decided to do something special.

I then wanted to apply this idea to the digital world, and the word "abandoned" made me think of my browser tabs… What if my tabs were slowly taken over by plants the longer I left them unread?

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