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Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places
No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.
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BASIC turns 60: Why simplicity was this programming language's blessing and its curse
Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it today.
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We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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FCC Reinstates Net Neutrality In A Blow To Internet Service Providers
Major internet providers once again will have to abide by a set of robust rules as the FCC today reinstated net neutrality regulations.
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AYANEO's New NES-Style Mini PC: Pretty, and Pretty Powerful -
Remember the AYANEO mini PC I wrote about last year? You know, the one that looked like a classic Macintosh, ran Windows 11, and was advertised as being
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The real significance of Apple's Macintosh
40 years on, it's still widely misunderstood
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How to Build an Origami Computer
Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation.
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Firefox has a DEB PACKAGE! | Installing Firefox without Snap
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The Mac turns 40: How Apple's rebel PC almost failed again and again
In 1984, a $2.5k computer - with a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128KB RAM, 400 KB floppy drive, and built-in networking - changed everything. Until it didn't. Then these two things saved the Mac.
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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
In the early 1990s, David wrote a proposal for a book about his life and adventures in publishing, covering the founding of PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, and more. The book didn't happen, but the proposal is good reading in itself.
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The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April
Fans of the tech dinosaur have a few months to fill their drives with software
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Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones
The tech giant is compensating US customers and faces similar allegations in the UK.
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This is how to protect your computers from LogoFAIL attacks
This obnoxious constellation of firmware attacks takes over computers. Here's which devices are vulnerable and what you can do to protect them.
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Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
Amazon is reportedly working on its own Linux-based OS to replace Android on its Fire TVs, smart displays, and other non-tablet devices. —What's that?
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Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection
Irish eyes may not be smiling
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The Cobra Effect: Why Anti-Adblock Policies Could Hurt Revenue Instead
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Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.
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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker
The Windows Phone user agent bypasses YouTube's annoying anti-ad-blocker pop-up.
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How to Install Firefox as a .Deb on Ubuntu 22.04 (Not a Snap) - OMG! Ubuntu
A short guide on how to install Firefox from a PPA on Ubuntu 22.04 and remove the Firefox Snap. Doing this gets you a faster Firefox that can do more OOTB.
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