Tag: tech
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On 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes.… more ›
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Google has announced that it’s opening up API access to its Google Home smart home platform. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157154/google-home-api-matter-smart-home-chromecast-google-tv more ›
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In early March, global investors turned their eyes toward Beijing, where 2,977 delegates from across China had gathered for the annual session of the National People’s Congress. Here, Chinese Premier… more ›
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Seeing cars with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a pedestrian, but when I’m on my bicycle I often find myself riding alongside them,… more ›
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I’ve used all kinds of formats and protocols in a long career as a software developer. I also have created a few, and have had to fight to keep them… more ›
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“Audio” is what we now call the broad category of music, podcasts, books, lectures and many more variations of digital content. Radio became all that, diluted and subsumed by the… more ›
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When old tech dies, it usually stays dead. No one expects rotary phones or adding machines to come crawling back from oblivion. Floppy diskettes, VHS tapes, cathode-ray tubes—they shall rest… more ›
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By revenue, TSMC is the largest semiconductor company in the world. In 2020 it quietly joined the world’s 10 most valuable companies. It’s now bigger than Meta and Exxon. The… more ›
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Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it’s not your kid’s iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and you’re using PLATO. Far from its comparatively… more ›
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What is the impact of this slowdown? The increasingly critical role computation has played across disparate industries suggests the impact is immediate, and will only get more significant if Moore’s Law… more ›