Remember the Etak Car Navigation System [1985]?
“Etak beat modern GPS systems to market by a decade and a half. It was so early that its inventors had to digitize their...
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Swimming in data
An interesting article in Time‘s July 6–13, 2015 issue: The Old Answer to Humanity’s Newest Problem: Data “When humans first evolved, food was scarce;...
The real voice of Siri
Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate that the countless electronic voices we hear, from the prompt at the self-checkout to the disembodied tone coming from...
“Your PC May Be Infected!”
Inside the World of Antivirus Telemarketing You’ve seen or heard of this message:“Your PC may be infected!” PCWorld provides some background. The agents are...
Food Trucks Friday Nights at Computer History Museum
“The Computer History Museum has partnered with Off the Grid to bring food trucks and special programming to the museum each Friday night, June...