Microsoft has been in the news the last couple of days because they are rolling out a new operating system for phones. Supposedly, this is a “start over”, as opposed to a revision of current software. But how did they start over? They brought in Todd Peters. A technology guy, right? [...]
Bill Gates was at TED and got his rant on.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates took on climate change during his TED speech Friday. He told those gathered at the conference that “What we’re going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system… So we need energy miracles.”
Bill, your company has a [...]
Andy Borowitz is pretty funny sometimes.
There have been riffs on the name of the new Apple device, iPad. I think this is the funniest I’ve seen.
Apple Launches Text-sharing Device, the CoTex
Absorbs Heavy Flow of Data, Says Jobs
See the link for the rest.
So, we have these drones that we can send in via remote control to hostile parts of the world and not risk the lives of military personnel. Sounds like a great idea, right?
Except for the fact that the video downlink is unencrypted and can be tapped.
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept [...]
During President Obama’s interview on 60 minutes, he answered “It’s democracy in action” in response to a question about health care. He grinned when he said it, and I wondered which arrangement of those phonemes he was voicing.
Canada is a primary source of an isotope that has certain medical applications.
Every day, U.S. doctors perform more [...]
I have been pretty happy with Gmail. I use it to read my primary mail account and keep another account there for lower priority things.
One of the things I don’t like about it is that dots are removed from the name space. johndoe@gmail.com is the same thing as john.doe@gmail.com. I have seen phishing emails where [...]
I have decided to a category of “Douchbags” for those people who deserve the title. First up: some twits at Microsoft who filed for a patent for “sparklines”. Sparklines are small graphics and the Wiki page describes them well. These people at Microsoft filed for a patent on this:
Samuel Chow Radakovitz, (Redmond, WA, US)
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This is amazing work.
From Stink Digital.
When I first saw it, I thought it was chivalry. That is funny.
Chirality relates to the way molecules are organized:
The technique the team has developed for detecting life elsewhere in the universe will not spot aliens directly. Rather, it could allow spaceborne instruments to see a telltale sign that life may have influenced a landscape: [...]
The French police have saved millions by switching to Ubuntu. Who knew?
France’s Gendarmerie Nationale, the country’s national police force, says it has saved millions of dollars by migrating its desktop software infrastructure away from Microsoft Windows and replacing it with the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when [...]