Tag: software

• Stanford researchers identify four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their simple fixes

  February 27, 2021

  Even as more people are logging onto popular video chat platforms to connect with colleagues, family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford researchers have a warning for you: Those… more ›

• Thinking about Machines and Thinking

  February 21, 2021

  In Paris. Exactly Seventy Years Ago. He likely arrived in Paris from Darmstadt, Germany, by train that January, exactly seventy years ago. https://computerhistory.org/blog/thinking-about-machines-and-thinking/ more ›

• Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, The Internet, And The Metaverse

  February 6, 2021

  One of the neat things about the internet is who created it, why, and how. The web’s cross-platform, standards-based and non-profit origins are inseparable from the internet’s rapid growth, the… more ›

• The Universal Communication Bus

  February 6, 2021

  Chat is only the latest incarnation of human communication. The problem, now, is that basic communication is too complicated and time consuming. Today, even with fancy smartphones and LTE networks, exchanging… more ›

• Beeper built the universal messaging app the world needed

  February 1, 2021

  Eric Migicovsky likes to tinker. And the former CEO of Pebble — he’s now a partner at Y Combinator — knows a thing or two about messaging. https://www.protocol.com/beeper-messaging-app more ›

• How to Think About Bots

  January 30, 2021

  We live in a world of bots. Generally speaking, these sets of algorithms are responsible for so much on the backend of the internet, from making Google searches possible to… more ›

• Who Gets Rich?

  January 24, 2021

  Roblox is a video game platform, though it describes itself alternatively as a “metaverse,” “human co-experience platform” and “new category of human interaction.” It’s expected to go public via direct listing on… more ›

• Spatial Software

  January 23, 2021

  Software applications can utilize spatial interfaces to afford users powerful ways of thinking and interacting. Though often associated with gaming, spatial interfaces can be useful in any kind of software,… more ›

• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

  January 12, 2021

  We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. We find that DALL·E is able to create… more ›

• He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.

  January 11, 2021

  Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?  “Pods,” personal online data stores, are… more ›