VSCO Girls Are Just Banal Victorian Archetypes

In 2010, washed-out images of skinny and ethereal white women became the internet’s newest favorite aesthetic. On Tumblr, the platform du jour, there were photos of women, shoeless, in fields of flowers pouting lazily at the camera; women standing at windows in their underwear looking dreamily out onto a European street; there was even one…

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Microsoft Is Taking Quantum Computers to the Cloud

Microsoft got where it is by ensuring that Windows ran on many different types of hardware. Monday, the company said its cloud computing platform will soon offer access to the most exotic hardware of all: quantum computers.Microsoft is one of several tech giants investing in quantum computing, which by crunching data using strange quantum mechanical…

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Star Wars News: What Happens to the Franchise Now?

Begun, the flurry of Star Wars activity has. With less than two months to go until the release of the next—and, currently, only scheduled—movie, and less than two weeks until the debut of The Mandalorian on Disney+, it’s no surprise that there’s a lot going on in a galaxy far, far away right now. But…

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Trump Can Now Exit the Paris Accord. It’s Still a Bad Idea

When President Trump visited Pittsburgh last month, he complained about how the Paris climate treaty was unfair to the United States.“I withdrew the United States from the terrible, one-sided climate accord, it was a total disaster for our country,” Trump told a cheering crowd at a natural gas conference. “They were taking away our wealth.…

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These Researchers Are Trying to Build a Better Blockchain

There’s a rule in the world of blockchains so ingrained that some call it folklore. Bitcoin, the original iteration of blockchain technology, is great at two things. One is keeping data secure, with a ledger others can’t sabotage. The other is “decentralization,” or getting lots of people to work together without a central authority to…

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