technology

Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC for short) may not be a household name. Many of their innovations were licensed or sold and brought to market by other companies. However, their fingerprints are all over the tech we use to work, play, and communicate in the 21st century. Some examples...

So, first we had Jeff Bezos of Amazon buying The Washington Post. Then Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs of Apple, bought a majority stake in The Atlantic. And now Marc Benioff of Salesforce is buying Time Magazine. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife are buying Time Magazine And...

Peter Coffin...he’s very funny. A well informed, well made, YouTube show.

My computer did an update and now my mouse won't work properly, switching USB ports doesn't help. #3 here helped - Easy to Fix USB Ports Not Working Issue on Windows 10 - Driver Easy At least now I don't get the message the device stopped working and it doesn't stop altogether until I plug...

Jerry Pournelle has passed away. I imagine most folks around here aren't familiar with the man, but I came across him in two of the worlds in which he operated. I read some of his science fiction, esp. his collaborations with his friend and colleague Larry Niven, and I was a regular reader of...