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Machine Learning and Catastrophic Forgetting
While an elephant may never forget, the same cannot be said for artificial neural networks. What is catastrophic forgetting, how does it affect artif…
3 years, 2 months ago
TechStuff Classic: The Circuit City Story Part 1
Do you remember the electronics superstore called Circuit City? If you shopped in the 80s and 90s, the answer is probably yes. How did it get started…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tech News: X Gon' Take It Away From Ya
X.com will require brands to spend at least $1,000 per month on advertising or else risk losing the verified checkmark on the platform. A city in Chi…
3 years, 2 months ago
TechStuff Tidbits: Biometrics
Amazon is rolling out palm scanner technology to Whole Foods grocery stores. What's the story on biometrics, and what are the benefits and drawbacks …
3 years, 2 months ago
Tech News: Elon Musk X's Out Twitter
Elon Musk has changed Twitter to X, and a lot of people are puzzled and unhappy about it. Plus, the ESRB wants to make sure you're old enough to play…
3 years, 2 months ago
Little Boy and Fat Man
With the film Oppenheimer released to theaters, it's time to talk about the tech of the atomic bombs. What set the two apart? How did they work? And …
3 years, 2 months ago
TechStuff Classic: How Magnetic Storage Works
Learn about the amazing world of magnets and how super smart people figured out we could use them to store data. From old wire recordings to magnetic…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tech News: World Famous Hacker Passes Away
Hacker Kevin Mitnick passed away this week. Back in the 1990s, Mitnick upset a lot of powerful companies by infiltrating their computer systems and b…
3 years, 2 months ago
TechStuff Tidbits: Perpetual Motion and Thermodynamics
We've all heard that perpetual motion machines are impossible (at least as far as our understanding of the universe goes) but why? We look at how our…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tech News: Microsoft Scrambles to Save Activision Deal
Microsoft's contract to purchase Activision Blizzard expires today, and Reuters reports that the company is trying to get an extension on the agreeme…
3 years, 2 months ago