I am surprised that the Apple Watch only has 52% market share at this point. I shouldn’t be, however, because the price is relatively high and I suspect that a lot of the 28.2% sector is made up of much… Read More ›
Articles
Can America’s Fastest Supercomputer Defeat Covid for Good?
Head is a drug hunter. A computational chemist by training, Head uses complex computer simulations to search for molecules that can gum up the gears of a virus hell-bent on infecting human cells. She focuses on therapeutics—the things doctors rely… Read More ›
It’s hard trying to be rational
And yet modern life would be impossible without those rational systems; we must improve them, not reject them. We have no choice but to wrestle with rationality—an ideal that, the sociologist Max Weber wrote, “contains within itself a world of… Read More ›
The Segway did not change the world
The proposal quoted Steve Jobs saying the invention would be “as significant as the personal computer.” Jeff Bezos said it was “revolutionary.” But what was surprising about the book deal wasn’t merely the praise the invention and its inventor, Dean… Read More ›
How is the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro possible?
If you want to buy a titanium Apple Watch series 6 you will pay a minimum of £749 for the 40mm edition. If you want to buy a traditional watch with sapphire glass you will pay approximately £350 as a… Read More ›
A post about client sexual harassment
I was sexually harassed by a client last night. The harassment itself was no big deal, just drunken, stupid sexual texts, multiple calls & videocalls I didn’t pick up. Unfortunately, this is not something new as a woman in tech… Read More ›
My listening devices scare me
Jo and I were talking about our ancestors yesterday after going through some very old family photos. It was just a quick chat in the living room and nothing else, but I happened to mention that we should look at… Read More ›
Go North, Be a Man!
To up my manliness! I’m sure it’s an outdated belief, but one nugget that stuck with my from like Cognitive Science 101 in college is allegedly men are better than women at performing mental spatial rotations. I don’t want to… Read More ›
What if we replace almost all tactile objects?
I wrote yesterday about the various objects we use being replaced by computers and it got me thinking more about the subject. With the potential for so many of our day to day objects becoming computerified we could easily end… Read More ›
Computing replaced everything
We used to write with pens that we had to fill up with ink and we then moved to ball point pens because they were much more convenient. And then came the typewriter which was followed by the computer keyboard,… Read More ›
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