Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Early experiments used a dummy because the many incandescent lights needed to provide sufficient illumination made it too hot and bright for a person. In 1929, the BBC decided to give Baird’s system a try, performing some experimental broadcasts outside of normal hours. The image could be seen on a ground glass plate.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Thus, some of the fascination of retrocomputing lies in its detective element, with systems reverse engineered with modern tools, sometimes down to the silicon level, and old design documents unearthed from retiree's attics. Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar!

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Jenks is chair of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), an organization that’s developing technical methods to document the origin and history of digital-media files, both real and fake. “Our goal is to mitigate that impact as much as possible.”

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