Clare Burge thought that she had a good handle on her email, until she returned from a 10-day trip to Morocco in 2001 to find 10,000 new messages in her inbox. Stress took over her post-holiday glow and Burge wondered why she had even bothered to leave at all. Then in a moment of madness,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2015
More than a billion emails at State Department, but few saved
The State Department’s government watchdog has released a review of its email record-keeping practices and concluded that the vast majority of emails sent by State personnel are not being preserved, possibly in violation of the Federal Records Act. Out of the billion emails sent by personnel in 2011, the Office of the Inspector General found… Read more »
We’re at a pivotal point in the Internet’s history
Steven Case, co-founder of AOL — who now heads up Washington, D.C. based venture capital firm Revolution LLC — spoke of the Internet in three waves. The first, of which he was a leading pioneer, ran from 1985 to 2000 and brought the Internet to everyday life. The second, from 2000 to the present, consists… Read more »
March 15th, 2015 – “.com” is thirty years old
On March 15th, 1985, the first .com to computer manufacturer Symbolics Inc. The picture above shows the ports on the back of a Symbolics 3600 that allowed it to be connected to the Internet. Source: CNN Tech Date: March 15th, 2015 Link (to paste into browser): http://us.cnn.com/2015/03/13/living/feat-30-years-dot-com/index.html Discussion As you look through the photos here,… Read more »
The Cicret Bracelet: Like a tablet…but on your skin
With the Cicret Bracelet, you can make your skin your new touchscreen. Read your mails, play your favorite games, answer your calls, check the weather, find your way…Do whatever you want on your arm. Source: YouTube.com Date: March 12th, 2015 Link (to paste into web browser): https://www.youtube.com/embed/9J7GpVQCfms Discussion 1) Obviously you would love one of… Read more »
The 414s: The Original Teenage Hackers
It is 1983 and the movie “War Games” has just come out…and a group of teenage boy scouts hacks into several US Military computer systems. Source: CNN Date: March 7th, 2015 Link (to paste into browser to access the video): http://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2015/03/02/digital-shorts-the-414s-all-american-hackers-orig.cnn Discussion This is an historical short video
Camfind app: The ‘Google’ of real things?
This app allows you to “Google the physical world”. For the past three years, the LA-based team has been researching how to advance the field of computer vision using image recognition to create a “digital fingerprint” of the object which can be matched against similar objects in its database. Objects not recognised by its algorithms… Read more »
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