Stephen Johnson
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You Can Send Your Name to Mars
NASA will put your name on a spaceship and blast it off to another planet.
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Your iPhone Can Clone Your Voice
Do you think you could do a better job as a personal digital assistant than Siri? Now you can put it to the test: Personal Voice is a new accessibility feature in Apple’s iOS 17 that uses AI to clone your voice then integrates it with iOS’s Live Speech system to let you “speak” through…
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In Defence of the Landline Telephone
Once among the most ubiquitous pieces of technology on Earth, old school, wired-and-jacked telephones are disappearing. But are we being a little hasty here?
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16 of the Best Memes From 2022 That You’ve Already Forgotten
There’s an old saying that “the internet is forever,” but it’s a damn lie. Ideas, memes, and subcultures can proliferate online and seem to be everywhere, only to disappear forever when someone deletes their account or stops paying their web hosting for a day. The following trendlets caught on briefly in 2022 — sometimes for…