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Daily Archives: 23.10.2014
Microsoft Q1 profit falls 13 percent, weighed down by Nokia unit
By Nick Statt In its second quarter after acquiring Nokia for more than $7 billion in April, Microsoft is paying the price for layoffs even as its other divisions continue to grow.
This Motion-Activated Band Turns Your Arm Into a Sound Effect Machine
Pew Pew! Vroom vroom! Chugga chugga! Time was when playtime special effects were whatever weird sounds you could make with your mouth. Not anymore! …
No Love for Lovelace: A Closer Read of Walter Isaacson’s Innovators
By Eileen Pollack on Jezebel, shared by Meg Neal to Gizmodo
I’m glad Walter Isaacson is getting such an outpouring of love from reviewers and talk-show hosts for including Ada Lovelace in The Innovators, his new history of the digital revolution.1 Thanks to Isaacson, Lovelace is finally receiving at least a few bytes of the attention she deserves for having written the first computer algorithm—a century before the first electronic computer was up and running. He also devotes a chapter to Grace Hopper, a Navy rear admiral who, a hundred years later, invented the first compiler so programs could be written in words rather than in numbers, and the six female mathematicians who designed the software for the first generally programmable computer.
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Vertical Tsunami Shelters Will Help People Get to Higher Ground, Fast
The threat of a tsunami is a very real thing for much of the Pacific coastline, yet many cities in the U.S. haven’t taken specific infrastructural measures to ensure their residents are safe when they happen. A new building in Washington will have the first …
Android Wear’s First Major Update Brings GPS, Offline Music Support
By Brandon Hill Google adds some extra functionality to Android Wear …read more
Android Wear’s First Major Update Brings GPS, Offline Music Support
By Brandon Hill Google adds some extra functionality to Android Wear …read more
