10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages • Hillel Wayne
~12 min read · 68 saves · Mar 25th · The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right:…
Christoph Niemann’s “Evolution”
2 min read · Paywall possible · 19 saves · 2019-04-02 · The artist describes the inspiration behind his cover for this year’s Technology Issue.
Europe gets ready for exascale
3 min read · Jan 24th · Bigger data, faster machines--what will the 2020s hold?
Dark Territory review – how WarGames and Reagan shaped US cyberwar battle
3 min read · 10 saves · From 2016 · Charles Kaiser · Slate columnist Fred Kaplan’s new book details – exhaustingly as well as exhaustively – the alarms and innovations that made mass surveillance
Quantum supremacy from Google? Not so fast, says IBM
2 min read · Paywall possible · 25 saves · 2019-10-22 · The rival maker of quantum computers is disputing the much-vaunted claim that Google has hit a new milestone.
TELESINCRO, SECOINSA, FUJITSU, INFORMÁTICA
8 min read · 2019-10-08 · telesincro: su historia En 1966 nacía Factor-P, considerado el primer ordenador fabricado en España. Estaba inspirado en una máquina de Philips para hacer facturas…
Les dones dels algorismes
~11 min read · 2019-10-07 · Són elles i les hem desxifrat: les primeres teixidores de programari informàtic. Als 60, a Catalunya, es fabriquen els primers ordinadors. Funcionaven amb plaques…
CaixaBank realiza el primer proyecto para aplicar la computación cuántica
2 min read · 2019-08-29 · Se convierte en pionera en España en finalizar pruebas reales para adaptar un algoritmo para evaluar el riesgo en carteras hipotecarias y bonos del…
This is the computer you’ll wear on your face in 10 years
4 min read · 153 saves · 2019-08-14 · Mark Sullivan · Snap’s new Spectacles 3 camera glasses are an important step toward the augmented reality glasses that could one day replace the smartphone as our…
Was E-mail a Mistake?
10 min read · Paywall possible · 101 saves · 2019-03-21 · Digital messaging was supposed to make our work lives easier and more efficient, but the mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be…