Author Archives
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To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time
When my wife died, my life was thrown out of time. My past didn’t seem to connect to my present. How had the last 13 years turned me into an only parent of two young children, owner of a house… Read More ›
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How did the qwerty keyboard become so popular?
Typing at 60 words per minute (wpm) – no stretch for a good typist – means five or six letters striking the same spot each second. At such a speed, the typist might need to be slowed down for the… Read More ›
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Street Artists Transform an Ordinary Building
“We’ve noticed that this project brought people together without pushing it,” Is De Man tells My Modern Met. “They meet each other through books. Regardless of the differences in cultures, regardless of the differences in political point of views. Regardless… Read More ›
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Sculpting Freddie Mercury
Wow!
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Instagram is awful
Recently I decided to set up a new Instagram account and to write about Tudor watches. I wanted to experiment with simple images and longer form text than you normally see on Instagram. No great ambitions here, just something to… Read More ›
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No backdoor…
Cook and Sewell met with Eric Holder and Jim Cole, then the deputy attorney general, in late 2014, and FBI agents told them they were “interested in getting access to phones on a mass basis.” This was way before the… Read More ›
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Look after your own baby you lazy…
I don’t normally like it when people have a dig at millennials, but this individual seems to be unable to do anything for themselves or take responsibility for real life. This is, however, a highly entertaining Twitter thread.
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Retro Tech: Game Boy
Excellent, just excellent.
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Bye bye BBM
Today we’re announcing that we will be closing BBM consumer service on 31 May 2019. Three years ago, we set out to reinvigorate BBM consumer service, one of the most loved instant messaging applications, as a cross-platform service where users… Read More ›
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The Galaxy has folded
When I first saw the Samsung Galaxy Fold, I was immediately reminded of the Homer Simpson Car. I show this clip to all of my human-computer interaction and user-centered design classes, because it’s a great way to show people the… Read More ›
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