For nearly 15 minutes, McClelland held the retractor as blood ran over its edges. As the other doctors labored on Kennedy’s throat and chest or milled around the room, McClelland stood staring at the leader of the free world. His… Read More ›
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A Commodore 64 has helped run an auto shop for 25 years
Apple’s Phil Schiller thinks it’s sad that people use 5-year-old computers. Well, Phil, there’s an auto repair shop in Poland that’s going to send you spiraling into a long depression. Why? Because one of the computers they’re using on a… Read More ›
RRP
Out of habit, I often look around for bargains and tend to look at certain online stores. Without looking for Black Friday deals (I hate Black Friday!) I have noticed a disturbing trend that many of you are no doubt… Read More ›
Squarespace vs WordPress
For a long long time I used Squarespace and was perfectly happy with the service, and then I stopped for a while because I realised that blogging wasn’t doing much for me anymore, and presumably not for you readers. Recently… Read More ›
What are all these Apple people working on?
I just read this. Last month, Apple told reporters that it was formally exiting the standalone display business and ceding it to partners like LG. According to a new report from Bloomberg, it may soon be doing the same thing… Read More ›
A History of Hard Drives
2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the venerable Hard Disk Drive (HDD). While new computers increasingly turn to Solid State Disks (SSDs) for main storage, HDDs remain the champions of low-cost, high-capacity data storage. That’s a big reason why we… Read More ›
All I want is a digital notepad
The Sony Digital Paper product above is $799 and by all accounts has not set the world alight, probably because of the price. The size of it (A4) probably does not help either. The WG-S20 from Sharp, above, makes a… Read More ›
Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.
I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account. At the moment, this… Read More ›
How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts
Stacy thought that her husband was off to a job interview followed by an appointment with his therapist. Instead, he drove the 22 miles from their home in Steubenville, Ohio, to the Mountaineer Casino, just outside New Cumberland, West Virginia…. Read More ›
The Analog Spaces In Digital Companies
Primo Orpilla, the co-founder of the architecture and design firm Studio O+A, has been designing offices for digital-technology companies for more than thirty years, basically since the start of the PC era. His clients have included Cisco and Microsoft, PayPal… Read More ›
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