Venkat Srinivasan

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    The Brilliant “Baloney Slicer” That Started the Digital Age

    How the hard disk drive married two very powerful concepts.

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    Making Sense of Data Stored in Our Machines—& in Our Heads

    The 2008 animated movie Waltz With Bashir starts with 26 bloodthirsty dogs hurtling down a road, causing havoc and terrorizing nearby people. It turns out to be a dream: Boaz Rein-Buskila keeps seeing that image while sleeping and can’t figure out why. He shares it with his friend, Ari Folman, hoping Folman, the director of […]