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How Do People Live in Orbit? Ask the Space Archeologists
wired.com > story...Walsh coleads SQuARE with Alice Gorman, an archaeologist at Flinders University in Australia.... ...Astronaut Thomas Marshburn holds up a ruler and color calibration chart, key implements of the SQuARE project, along with a camera.... ...Victor Buchli, an archaeologist at the University College London, studies space debris and other aspects of humanity's interactions with low Earth... ...(The researchers learned it was used for a birthday cake for Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov.). One of the most used items?...

'Tetris" Is a Fun Ride, but It's Got a Few Missing Pieces
wired.com > story...What aspect of the communist Soviet Union they believe in or why they do what they do is boiled down to "I want what's best for my country."... ...And while there's a sound moral argument that Pajitnov should be able to profit from his creation--or even simply live safely--there's little to... ...As the film makes clear, the final years of the Soviet Union saw greedy opportunists carving up territory during a governmental collapse.... ...But some bits, like Rogers missing his daughter's recital while trying to seal the deal, come off as cliché....

Nix Hydration Biosensor Review: Unlocking the Science of Sweat
wired.com > review...In a world where unmanned spacecraft have landed on Mars and artificial intelligence can read your mind, one would think someone would have figured... ...In December, a Boston startup founded by Harvard Business School graduate and marathoner Meridith Cass unveiled the Nix Hydration Biosensor, the... ...Cass, who is also a former collegiate basketball player, started thinking about biosensing technology to measure hydration after she struggled with...

The Internet Archive's Literary Civil War
wired.com > story...A lesson I learned early in life: never piss off a librarian. Apparently District Court Judge John G.... ...Koetl skipped out on a formative traumatic-shushing experience, because his recent ruling against the Internet Archive, a beloved digital library... ...Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger also sees the ruling as a victory for writers.... ...Juliya Ziskina, a policy fellow at the nonprofit Library Futures, strenuously disagrees with this argument....

'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" Plays Like Your Best D&D Game
wired.com > story...Writer and director duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley seem to get what players love about D&D.... ...Smith is charming as a bumbling sorcerer, and Sophia Lillis nails the energy of that one friend who wrote a brooding character that doesn't like... ...Rodriguez sells the barbarian-with-a-heart-of-gold archetype perfectly....

Apple's iOS 16.4: Security Updates Are Better Than a Goose Emoji
wired.com > story...Samsung device.... ...Apple also released macOS Ventura 13.3, Safari 16.4, watchOS 9.4, tvOS 16.4, macOS Big Sur 11.7.5, macOS Monterey 12.6.4, macOS Monterey, and macOS... ...Google also patched eight issues in the Framework marked as having a high severity, which could lead to privilege escalation without any user interaction...

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing
wired.com > story...The Antikythera mechanism was an astonishingly complex piece of machinery used thousands of years ago in ancient Greece.... ...Hoping for a reality check, I consulted Lyle Bickley, a founding member of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.... ...Quickly I found a San Francisco Bay Area company called Mythic, which claimed to be marketing the "industry-first AI analog matrix processor."....

Apple's iOS 16.4: Security Updates Are Better Than a Goose Emoji
wired.com > story...Samsung device.... ...Apple also released macOS Ventura 13.3, Safari 16.4, watchOS 9.4, tvOS 16.4, macOS Big Sur 11.7.5, macOS Monterey 12.6.4, macOS Monterey, and macOS... ...Google also patched eight issues in the Framework marked as having a high severity, which could lead to privilege escalation without any user interaction...

This Blood Test Targets 50 Types of Cancer
wired.com > story...Of the more than 200 types of cancer, we currently only screen for cervical, breast, and bowel cancer, says Kumar.... ...The dream is a single test that can identify every cancer from a single draw of blood--and that's roughly what Grail has been developing:...