Tributes have been paid to computer programming pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who died at the weekend. Mr Tomlinson, who was 74, is widely credited with inventing email, while he was working on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971. He is said to have said to a colleague, when showing him his invention: “Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re supposed […]
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I For One Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
So Google is indexing all human knowledge, it knows where you are and what you want, and now it’s gone and bought this company which is developing creepy walking scary running robots for the US military. [youtube]http://youtu.be/wE3fmFTtP9g[/youtube] The New York Times reports that Google will honour the existing contracts which its new acquisition, Boston Dynamics, has […]
White House Staff “Get” Star Wars But Reject Death Star Proposal
While some governments seem to have “issues” with moving towards a more “open” government and recognising their citizens wishes, the US government seems to be doing quite a good job .. At least they’ve got a sense of humour and are familiar with popular culture. When someone started a petition on the White House site […]