- Happy 40th birthday, Intel 4004! – In a way this stated the whole microcomputer… I hate to say “revolution” but I can’t think of a better word.
- How the BBC’s HD DRM plot was kept secret … and why – Your licence money going to benefit rights holders at your expense…
- The Real Cost of Patent Trolls – “They conclude that the loss of billions of dollars of wealth associated with these lawsuits harm society and state.”
Tag: History
- Broadcast television is 75 years old today – “On 2 November 1936, the BBC began filling the airwaves, broadcasting from its Alexandra Palace facility in North London.”
- Broadcast television is 75 years old today – “On 2 November 1936, the BBC began filling the airwaves, broadcasting from its Alexandra Palace facility in North London.”
- A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs – Worth reading even if you’ve read all the other Jobs obituaries.
- Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support – I think this is one of Androids biggest failings.
- John McCarthy — Father of AI and Lisp — Dies at 84 – Really not a good month for IT or Computer Science.
- The original iPod, 10 years later: a re-review – The original iPod is ten years old and, actually, stands up pretty well.
- C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead – It’s a sad week for the IT industry.
- Alma telescope opens its eyes – Awesome. In the original sense of the word.
- Mercury’s Explosive Volcanic History – Both beautiful and fascinating.
- Apple’s iPod: ten years old – Is it really a decade since the first iPod?
- Lytro — light field sensor photography – This “light field sensor” sounds amazing but I am a little skeptical. I’ll believe its potential more when I hear about it being used by “real” people rather than in controlled situations.
- QuickLook Plugin For Mobile Provisioning Files – If you understand the title and develop iOS apps you need this plugin!
- C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead – It’s a sad week for the IT industry.
- Vintage 80s: Life on the streets – Images from London in the 1980’s.
- The IBM PC is 30 today – Look how far we’ve come in thirty years…
- photoshoplooter – I think this is a typically British response to the rioting currently going on around the UK this week.
- “1945-1998” by Isao Hashimoto – Cool visuals of the cold war.
- When We Tested Nuclear Bombs – Amazing and scary images. I didn’t know that there had been so many tests — over a hundred in one year alone.
- Average App Store Review Times – Displays the average app review time by pattern-matching tweets. Clever. (Currently around seven days, apparently.)
- Osborne! – Nice article about the Osborne-1 and the man behind it.
- Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow – “Tomorrow, 5 March 2011, marks the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the machine that did more to awaken ordinary Britons to the possibilities offered by home computing: the Sinclair ZX81.” Given my domain name, I had to link to this.
- Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Autism Groups “Kill Children” — And He’s Right – “And it is dangerously idiotic when the bad choice in question kills children.”