https://www.ted.com/talks/audra_a_diptee_the_records_the_british_empire_didn_t_want_you_to_see In his thought-provoking book Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores the concept of historical records being erased as a means of political change. This phenomenon is not new; throughout history,...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/openai-gpt4o-siri-iphone/678371/ It is funny to see how tech media seems to think Apple is totally out of the AI game. “OpenAI just killed Siri”? As if Apple will just give...
Wow. Has it really been 25+ years since JDK 1.0? #Java in a nutshell, that confused tiger on the cover. 🙂 infoworld.com/article/366652…
Hope this is not like what Michael Dell said about Apple when he was 20th richest in the world. #ElonMusk electrek.co/2022/06/14/elo…
I remember seeing a Cray-1 in a museum. Released in 1975, had a 64-bit processor running at 80 MHz. It had 8 MB of RAM (1M 64-bit words) and 303...
I can’t remember him getting any #Apple keynote time back then. But he is certainly the best known ex-exec of Apple. youtube.com/watch?v=P4fJ_Q…
A good example of how governments lost “control” in the digital tech age. Mapping a country used to be a military service around 300 years ago. 🙂 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#AI might be able to help us rewrite our history too. 🙂 classicfm.com/discover-music…
This shouldn’t be seen as a development milestone for #bitcoin, more like translating ancient Tamil for historical study. Will we ever see Bitcoin 2.0 white paper? #cryptocurrency finbold.com/milestone-bitc…
RT @BrianRoemmele: History of the Apple iMac. pic.twitter.com/Dtz0YJxDgd
Back in 2003 when #SteveJobs first introduced #Safari, he said they built it for speed. Just ran a test, same machine on Brave and Safari, 44.6 runs/min vs 68.3 runs/min....
Oh. He invented the #walkman killer. What’s #iPod? Can’t even find it on main navigation of Apple.com anymore. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#US did the same for 2008 Beijing Olympics, US media ranked them #1 using total medals, but IOC and even Wikipedia rank them #2. sports.yahoo.com/sorry-america-…
#BillGates did the same back in the selling DOS to IBM days. Just focus on key features and market them as revolutionary. 9to5mac.com/2021/07/09/une…
$999.99 for “I Am Rich” app in 2008 was expensive? #iOS 9to5mac.com/2021/02/19/app…
Will regulations be good for #Bitcoin or #cryptocurrency in general? Can we really say that Gold is regulated or just the wider financial system? Do we really know how much...
#IBM was never a near 2T dollars company. 🙂 inc.com/geoffrey-james…
“In the old days, many decisions were simply based on some mixture of experience and intuition. Experts were ordained because of their decades of individual trial-and-error experience.” Ian Ayres. In...
#Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy 20 years ago, losing around 1 billion a year. But we can’t imagine #Uber going under after losing 5 billion a quarter. theverge.com/2019/8/8/20793…
First book I read about encryption in 1995. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy by Simson Garfinkel amazon.co.uk/dp/1565920988/… via @AmazonUK
Can’t we just see “document databases” as very modern versions of Novell Netware? 🙃 itbrief.co.nz/story/the-rise…
We have been enjoying free messaging for too long. SMS used to cost money. And we used to send fewer spammy messages. bgr.com/2019/05/22/wha…
It’s a brave statement. But is it what the people want? Breaking tech companies up with make them easier to regulate? Didn’t they try it with AT&T and failed before?...
Even if they force Spiegel out, can #Snap be cool again? Looking back, should they have rejected #Facebook? recode.net/2019/1/17/1818…
Do we even remember what printed maps looked like? dailydot.com/debug/google-m…
Audio quality is important. People still don’t understand why #Apple paid so much for #Beats? mashable.com/2017/10/24/dir…
Amazing. Just 8nm now. 35 years go, 286 processer (the first popular PC x86) was 1,500nm (over 200x bigger)! engadget.com/2017/10/18/sam…
We saw the power of #Facebook way back in #Obama 2008 campaign. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
What else do you think Japanese cars are made? They have been doing it for many many years. #robotics jalopnik.com/elon-musk-elab…
#iTunes started when #Apple wanted to make Mac the center of digital hub. Now it is slowly moving to all #iCloud. soundandvision.com/content/whats-…