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That image is from Robert Gordon’s book The Rise and Fall of American Growth; one of the more startling facts surrounding this graph is that between 1910 and 1930 the average household purchased 3.1 ...

Last week OpenAI released DALL-E 2, which produces (or edits) images based on textual prompts; this Twitter thread from @BecomingCritter has a whole host of example output, including Teddy bears ...

The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable; I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed, and ...

The first video game was a 1952 research product called OXO — tic-tac-toe played on a computer the size of a large room: Copyright Computer Laboratory, University ...

I don’t do memes frequently, but I’ve used this one twice: Alas, I think I need to retire it. From the Wall Street Journal: Meta Platforms posted 22% revenue growth in the second quarter, showing its ...

Matthew Yglesias, in his new book One Billion Americans, admits: The One Billion Americans agenda — tripling the American population — is a radical suggestion that lies well outside the boundaries of ...

Nvidia investors have been in the valley before: This chart, though, is not from the last two years, but rather from the beginning of 2017 to the beginning of 2019; here is 2017 to today: Three big ...

In the beginning was the mainframe. These were hardly computers as we know them today, but rather calculation machines that took in reams of data (via punch cards or magnetic tape) and returned ...

It’s a rather motley crew. One is a nurse, another a lawyer, a third an investment adviser. There are three programmers, a soldier, and a data scientist. An entrepreneur, a consultant, and, I just ...

William Letwin, in Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act, argued that the only way to understand the Sherman Antitrust Act, and by extension antitrust in ...

So it finally happened: the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging anticompetitive behavior under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. And, as far as I can tell, ...