Kevin Nguyễn

1 week ago | pw.org | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

I started my first novel because my day job was boring. It was the 2010s, the waning years of the Silicon Valley boom, and I was in a low-level position at a gigantic tech company where I was mostly tasked with regurgitating PowerPoints. When I wasn’t losing at ping-pong in the dedicated ping-pong room, I usually squirreled away in nap pods trying to write.

1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

Posted May 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM UTCKKevin NguyenHow to get students to stop using AI. James D. Walsh’s excellent New York Magazine piece about college students cheating their way through school with ChatGPT has provoked a lot of education discourse, much of which reluctantly surrenders that AI is here and that there’s no way to stop people from using it.

1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

In poet Nora Claire Miller’s short, moving essay, she draws a line from the very first screensaver (SCRNSAVE, 1983) to the tesseract in A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle, 1962) to her family’s flight during the Holocaust (Austria, 1938). I particularly loved this bit about taking apart her grandmother’s iMac:I took the Strawberry apart thirty-nine times. (I kept count.) I didn’t really know what I was doing. I cut my hands open on the logic board more than once.

1 month ago | technewstube.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

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1 month ago | theverge.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn

Entertainment /FilmThe visual accompaniment to Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s new album is catching heat for the wrong reasons. But artist Jonathan Zawada explains how it started. May 9, 2025, 2:30 PM UTCEntertainment /FilmThe visual accompaniment to Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard’s new album is catching heat for the wrong reasons. But artist Jonathan Zawada explains how it started.