#55 Daily Tech: The man who made the “worst” video game in history

The man who made the “worst” video game in history

Howard Scott Warshaw’s video game was blamed for single-handedly sinking a multibillion-dollar market. But the true story is more complicated.

Put down devices, let your mind wander

People consistently underestimate how much they would enjoy spending time alone with their own thoughts, without anything to distract them, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

I Looked Into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To

I looked at 34 projects listed by the top Google result for “real-world blockchain projects”. 33 of these are either dead, pivoted away from Blockchain, use Blockchain in a (sometimes dangerously) bad way, or are have no real-world utility.

China’s AI-driven power grid can recover from a blackout in 3 seconds

China’s state-owned power grid company launched the nation’s most powerful AI for electricity distribution on Tuesday, according to Science and Technology Daily.

We’re going to need a lot of solar panels

The team at Terraform Industries is now 11 people working towards a near term future where atmospheric CO2, much of it centuries of unpriced industrial waste, becomes the preferred default source of industrial carbon. Our family of technologies will displace drilling and mining as sources of carbon and, in the process, stop the net flux of carbon from the crust into the atmosphere and oceans that is causing anthropogenic climate change.

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