Thursday, March 12, 2020. By P. C. Vey, with cartooncollections.com. SETI@Home is coming to an end this month, but the world’s greatest extraterrestrial hunt is far from finished.

Wednesday, March 11, 2020. By Benjamin Schwartz, with cartooncollections.com. A social network populated entirely by adoring bots aims to mimic the experience of being a celebrity online—trolls not included.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020. By Ivan Ehlers, with cartooncollections.com. Seawalls, parks, and elevated buildings can protect against rising tides. But they can also hasten “green gentrification,” pushing housing prices up and residents out.

Monday, March 9, 2020. By Jeremy Nguyen, with cartooncollections.com. Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished.

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