TechnologizerHistory
Just writing about all this is giving me a Proustian jolt of pleasure. I spent thousands of hours sitting in front of TRS-80s, cranking out programs in BASIC. I knew the machine inside and out, in a way that’s impossible with …
Mad scientists have it so easy now. Back in days of yore, if you wanted to create a death ray or giant marauding robot, you had to find suitably shady investors. Today’s young inventors simply turn to the Internet, palms …
Years ago, my parents put in an invisible fence to keep our family dog from running away. The dog wore a shock collar for a while in order to get used to where the boundaries of the yard were located. Within minutes of the …
Back in 2004 when Spirit and Opportunity landed in Mars, YouTube didn’t even exist. This time around, keeping up with NASA’s Martian exploits online will be a lot easier.
At 1:30am EDT on Monday, Curiosity will attempt to land …
TechnologizerMicrosoft
A few weeks ago, I met with a Microsoft executive and asked him a question about Metro, the streamlined user interface that both Windows 8 and Windows Phone sport, albeit in different versions. In the course of replying, he said …
It’s time to get excited about NASA again! Yes, with Curiosity hopefully landing safe and sound on the surface of Mars early Monday morning, people are once again talking about space travel.
Before getting images back from …
There’s a double rainbow of trending Twitter topics right now: iPhone 5 $800 and #800DollarsForAniPhone. The people of Twitter are aghast! Aren’t iPhones supposed to cost $200? “For $800, this phone better [insert outrageous …
Happiness and rage: Twitter has both.
After trying to figure out which tweets are positive and which are negative, such “sentiment data” is being used to reflect the public’s general mood about certain topics. If you’re mad or …
The longer technology is around, the cheaper products get for consumers. The price of a 32-inch flat-panel television, for instance, reached an all-time low average of $435 during the second quarter of 2012, down from $546 in the same period a year ago. Even so, the overall average price paid for a new TV has actually risen …
“Total Recall” features technology that erases and implants memories. Is that just sci-fi nonsense, or will we one day be able to reprogram our memories as we see fit?
Mark Zuckerberg may be a visionary, but with Facebook’s stock hitting new lows on a daily basis, it may be time for the company to find new leadership.
via Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg May Need to Step Aside as CEO | Business | TIME.com.
If you’re like me, your left calf muscle unexpectedly knotted up so horrendously while you were sleeping last night that you had to actually get out of bed and stand on your good leg to make whatever the hell was happening stop. …
