Banj Edwards | Aurich Lawson | Getty Images “Checking the system this morning, I noticed that your account has been logged in for over 20 hours,” begins a December 1998 email from the president of my dial-up Internet service provider (ISP) at the time. “Our service is unlimited, but we ask that you actually use … Read more
Zoom in / “I can’t believe the quality of this 8K video tutorial! It’s like you’re really Ted, could you, yeah, move around there a bit? You’re blocking thanks.” LiFi.Co Light is almost certainly the fastest thing out there. So it makes sense that “light-based wireless communications” or LiFi could blow the theoretical doors of … Read more
Apple Apple is officially releasing the first public betas of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 and macOS 14 Sonoma today, just over a month after it released the first developer betas at the Worldwide Developers Conference. While not as big a milestone as it has been in years past, the developer betas are now … Read more
When Google unveiled Project Gameface, the company was proud to showcase an AI-powered hands-free gaming mouse that, according to its announcement, allows people to control a computer cursor using head movement and facial gestures. While this may not be the first AI-powered gaming tool, it was certainly one of the first to put AI in … Read more
Zoom in / This image has a warm and nostalgic feel to many of us. Distributed computing exploded onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, an ingenious program and screensaver (when people were still using them) that scoured radio telescope signals for signs of alien life. The concept of distributed computing is … Read more