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Longread Links from The Ride Home Podcast

This collection is no longer being updated regularly. I still update it from time to time because this is the entire Long Read archive and I don’t think everything transitioned to the site. The Ride Home now has a proper web site and RSS feed.

Friday, March 29

• How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU (IEEE Spectrum)
• How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything (Texas Monthly)

Friday, March 22

• 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story (Wired)
• China’s Super-Cheap EVs Offer Hope for Average American Buyers (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Indie, rocked (The Verge)

Friday, March 15

• Can Reddit Survive Its Own IPO? (Wired)
• One Big Reason Gen Z Is Still on Facebook: To Save Money (NYTimes)
• How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race (Vox)

Friday, March 08

• The Nvidia Chips Inside Powerful AI Supercomputers (WSJ)
• Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power (Washington Post)
• How Netflix’s Massive Paydays, COVID and TikTok Caused ‘Explosion of Comedians’ (Variety)

Friday, March 01

• Wait. Why is Reddit losing so much money? (Business Insider)
• The 9-Month-Old AI Startup Challenging Silicon Valley’s Giants (WSJ)
• What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet (The New Yorker)

Friday, February 23

• Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (Wired)
• Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World (Wired)

Friday, February 16

• The fediverse, explained (The Verge)
• How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix (RestOfWorld)

Friday, February 09

• Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• AI Just Discovered ‘Unreadable’ Ancient Scrolls (National Geographic)

Friday, February 02

• AI Can Speed Drug Discovery. But Is It Really Better Than a Human? (Bloomberg)
• The scariest sound on TikTok (The Verge)
• The 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time (Rolling Stone)
• LATE BLOOMER (Vanity Fair)

Friday, January 19

• How Twitch lost its way (Fast Company)
• Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time (Vox)

Friday, January 12

• How AI Replaced the Metaverse as Zuckerberg’s Top Priority (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Avi Schiffmann’s Tab AI necklace has raised $1.9 million to replace God (Fast Company)
• How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out (ArsTechnica)

Friday, January 05

• A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. (Politico)
• New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists (NYTimes)
• Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris (NYTimes)
• Full game of Tetris beaten for the first time by 13-year-old Willis Gibson AKA ‘Blue Scuti’ (YouTube)

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