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Part IV of a IV part series. The organisations capturing real value from AI are not better at AI; they are better at running organisations. The specific moves boards and executives can make to join them—and why nine years of evidence...
June 8, 2026 So what is our glamorous Gothic researcher up to? Let’s enjoy her favorite painting for a moment; it’s easy to just skip right past the paintings to get to the wardrobes, and that’s a pity. I take AGES to choose these...
The LEGO Group has produced a wide range of vehicles but, as far as I could see, bicycles have so far been relegated to accessories for figures; nothing brick-built. This trend has been broken in a spectacular way, with the humongous...
The LEGO Group has produced a wide range of vehicles but, as far as I could see, bicycles have so far been relegated to accessories for figures; nothing brick-built. This trend has been broken in a spectacular way, with the humongous...
Listen, this is one humdinger of a cover. Drawn by Barry Windsor-Smith, it effectively depicts the state of the Thing as it had been at this time…alienated and alone, separated from the rest of the Fantastic Four. You would think the...
Books CONTINUE to lead to other books!! My reading of Peter Ackroyd’s “London Under” was inspired by Nicholas Royle’s “Finders, Keepers“; and there’s a bit of a story attached to today’s book! In Ackroyd’s chapters about the London...
I love wandering around old churches. St. John’s is small, but it has some beautiful stained glass windows and a very peaceful ambiance. Churches and libraries. They both have the same feel for me. A sacred space where light and silence...
In the previous article we looked at how a user program crosses the ring 3 → ring 0 boundary to ask the kernel for help. The example we used was read() — a file descriptor, a buffer pointer, a byte count. But we glossed over something...
Portable takes on games that were originally designed with anything but portability in mind fascinate me. I love seeing how …
Last week, because of a combination of bad planning (my bad) and endless delays (Deutsche Bahn’s bad), I arrive very late in a hotel in Berlin. I had to ring the doorbell. The guy at the reception started giggling the moment I came in,...