Recent content by Calvin Huang

Every time there's an article about machine learning or robotics, alarmists with no understanding of contemporary AI research start making allusions to Skynet. Just because AlphaGo can beat a world-class Go master doesn't mean we're anywhere near strong AI. At the current pace of AI and...

It's unlikely that this would happen in most industries, it's just not worth the effort in most cases. It's hard enough to design and manufacture a reliable, durable bug-free product as it is. It's just not worth the trouble/risk to introduce precise failures into the product. Market research...

People often use their smartphones at a much closer distance than other digital devices. I have an old S4A, and it's 1080p, which seems to make it as crisp as my 1800p laptop at the distances I view each at. Granted, the Marshall London has a slightly smaller display (4.7" vs 5"), but if you're...

A Raspberry Pi 2 kit including case, keyboard, 8GB microSD, 1GB RAM, PSU, 802.11n adapter, etc. is only $69 on Amazon. Per-unit international shipping costs can be greatly reduced if you buy wholesale. The advantage of this product is the additional storage, the Mali 450 GPU and an ARMv7 clocked...

Your modem itself shouldn't be directly accessible from WAN IPs. So the main risk is from someone on your LAN or if you're targeted with a very complex CSRF attack. If your LAN is secure, then you just need to avoid going to untrusted sites.

Even if you don't have gigabit internet access, having access to higher LAN transfer speeds is still very useful to people with multiple computers or network attached storage.

That's pretty brilliant actually. Having the charger inlaid within the desk/appliance makes it much more usable and hides the bulk of the charger (the Jyssen charging pads are actually about the same size as most standalone Qi disks, but the exposed circular cutout is only half the diameter of...

Raspberry Pi uses ARM processors, which won't even run a mobile version of Windows as of yet. You might be able to play some retro console games, but you wouldn't be able to play most PC games.

Eh, that's not universally true. I remember back in the PSP days, I had purchased MUA or some other action-RPG game that featured online multiplayer as a major feature. However, I purchased less than 2 years after it came out, and the servers had all been taken offline. Sometimes the gaming...

When Apple started providing DRM-free music and video, publishers similarly thought it would hurt sales, and yet it boosted adoption of iTunes over physical media (which was hurt by the various standard-breaking or privacy-invading DRM schemes). Graphic design software is another interesting...