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Google Now may be coming to Chrome browser.
References to Google Now have appeared in the Chromium backend recently. The information suggests it is being brought initially to Chrome for Windows, and Chrome OS, with no mention of Chrome for Mac.
(Source: theverge.com, via 8bitfuture)
Your next computer will live on your arm!
That’s what we called “wearable technology.”
(Source: Wired)
‘Metapaper’ blocks Wi-Fi signals.
French researchers have developed a wallpaper able to block Wi-Fi signals, while still allowing FM radio waves and emergency frequencies to pass through. Known as metapaper, it is able to filter out 99% of all waves coming from the outside.
Possible uses could include creating quiet spaces inside movie theaters or hospitals, or for the ultra paranoid it could be used to stop the neighbors stealing your Wi-Fi or hacking into a wireless home network.
The snowflake patterned wallpaper can be covered with traditional wallpaper. The makers are pushing it as a ‘healthy alternative’, citing studies showing that overexposure to electromagnetic waves could cause adverse health affects.
(Source: CNN, via 8bitfuture)
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch:
Similarly, actually remembering and recounting tales of your first computer will soon be this odd, old person thing to do, too. Kids’ first computers will be their parents’ hand-me down iPads. There are children being born into the world now who have always had an iPad. Like, from babyhood. I know that you know this already, but really think about that for a minute.
Imminent fast changes in the realm of digital culture.
Check out: Best geek-friendly wallpaper for your computer desktop »
There comes a time in each person’s life when it is time to change the wallpaper. And the drapes, but we’ll focus on wallpaper here.
Being back from my 1hr break, I spent few minutes catching up on various tumblogs on Tumblr DASHBOARD. Here’s the Coffee Key that grabbed my eyeballs more than anything else, in case you didn’t spot this before.
The incredible story of the first PC, from 1965 »
Almost 50 years ago, a small team at the Italian company Olivetti managed to do what no one had done before them; they created a computer small enough to fit on a desk, and could be used by regular people. It was the Programma 101, what many consider to be the world’s first personal computer.
A mosaic for the cover of “Ghost in the Wires”, the latest book by the world’s most wanted hacker Kevin Mitnick. (Photo by tsevis)
Read more about the book at here and here
Here is Kevin Mitnick’s “Wanted” poster issued by U.S. Marshals, 1992.
The Accidental History of the @ Symbol
The symbol’s modern obscurity ended in 1971, when a computer scientist named Ray Tomlinson was facing a vexing problem: how to connect people who programmed computers with one another. At that time, each programmer was typically connected to a particular mainframe machine via a phone connection and a teletype machine—basically a keyboard with a built-in-printer. But these computers weren’t connected to one another, a shortcoming the U.S. government sought to overcome when it hired BBN Technologies, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, company Tomlinson worked for, to help develop a network called Arpanet, forerunner of the Internet.
Tomlinson’s challenge was how to address a message created by one person and sent through Arpanet to someone at a different computer. The address needed an individual’s name, he reasoned, as well as the name of the computer, which might service many users. And the symbol separating those two address elements could not already be widely used in programs and operating systems, lest computers be confused.
Tomlinson’s eyes fell on the @, poised above “P” on his Model 33 teletype. - Continue reading at Smithsonian.com.
Illustration: Erik Marinovich
Ed note: Here is the history of the exclamation point!
