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Best scanner apps for mobile in 2023

A smartphone photo is adequate for casual archiving purposes. But if you want to save more than a few pieces of paper, consider a modest investment in a scanning app for your smartphone. The best mobile app we tested can significantly improve your results and speed up the process. (Yes of course there are references to cat photos.)
https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/best-scanner-apps

A friend's coworker knew someone who used ChatGPT to review a job req and write a cover letter based on the reqs and she said she got a call to interview within 3 hours. https://news.sky.com/story/recruitment-team-unwittingly-recommends-chatgpt-for-job-interview-12788770

One of the world’s most beautiful libraries has reopened to the public following a monumental 15-year-long renovation.
YOU WILL SWOON.
https://thespaces.com/the-newly-renovated-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france-is-a-bookworms-dream

"It seemed as though Musk didn’t understand the basic organizational structure of a social-media company; it was as if a rich guy had bought a restaurant and started telling the cooks he wanted to add a new dining room."
https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji

Why do bees die when they sting you? https://www.subanima.org/bees/

The Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. You can see a video of the project below. One thing that makes it a bit odd compared to other Altair clones we’ve seen is that the emulator runs in a Docker environment and is fully cloud-enabled. You can interact with it via a PCB front panel, or a terminal running in a web browser. https://hackaday.com/2023/01/15/microsoft-returns-to-the-altair/

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel recreated a Horn & Hardart Automat for Season 5 https://untappedcities.com/2022/10/26/marvelous-mrs-maisel-recreates-automat-season-5/

Playing Zork with AI-generated imagery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpCrBBj6AWE

What Star Trek got right -- and wrong -- about UX https://uxdesign.cc/did-star-trek-predict-the-future-of-ux-38217a4a9e88

Form meets function in this wooden artwork that transforms into a workspace designed by Robert van Embricqs.
Wow, it's beautiful.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/01/robert-van-embricqs-flow-wall-desk

"On Sunday, a Chuck E. Cheese employee named Stewart Coonrod posted a TikTok video that documents the process of installing a new song-and-dance show on an old Chuck E. Cheese animatronics system—a process that involves a 3.5-inch floppy disk and two DVDs. Coonrod says it is the last update before his store undergoes a remodel that will remove the animatronics altogether.”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/chuck-e-cheese-still-uses-floppy-disks-in-2023-but-not-for-long/

'With Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder successfully campaigned to honour Martin Luther King Jr with a national holiday, in a long career of socially conscious songwriting."

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230113-martin-luther-king-day-the-song-that-changed-the-us

Oh my. This D&D movie looks like fun. Clearly they are not taking themselves too seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII

"It may be time to reconsider Verhoeven's Hollywood work for its profound surface pleasures, or maybe, to appreciate the lighthearted human comedies hiding above the deep-seated satire." https://ew.com/movies/2017/11/07/starship-troopers-shower-scene-fascism/

"Ben Bacon analysed 20,000-year-old markings on the drawings, concluding they could refer to a lunar calendar. It led to a specialist team proving early Europeans made notes about the timing of animals' reproductive cycles." https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799

The State of Wyoming is considering phasing out the sales of electric vehicles by 2035 to “ensure the stability” of its oil and gas industry. (Or, rather, someone is trying to get a bill passed to make this happen.) https://www.teslarati.com/wyoming-phase-out-evs-2035/

'Here, cats outnumber humans more than ten to one,' says correspondent Seth Doane. Its 'tiny fishing village once had a population of 800 people, but the sardine fisheries depleted, jobs moved to cities, and human residents left the island.' https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/visit-the-cat-islands-of-japan-where-felines-outnumber-humans.html

Hear a previously unreleased live version of Woody Guthrie's folk anthem "This Land Is Your Land," performed by Pete Seeger during a show at the University of Tulsa in 1976. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYKaLs7A4zM&list=PL1764699DF54CFCD0

'To help Dashers quickly resolve closed merchant issues with maximum efficiency, we built a “Dasher reports store closed” feature [DRSC for short] directly in the Dasher app. In the rest of the article, we will walk through how this feature works and how we augmented it with ML to improve its performance and automation.' https://doordash.engineering/2023/01/10/how-doordash-upgraded-a-heuristic-with-ml-to-save-thousands-of-canceled-orders/