Microsoft has postponed Windows Recall, the company’s flagship AI feature that tracks everything you do on your computer and makes the content easily searchable. Maybe too easily. Critics slammed Recall as creepy and a privacy nightmare. The postponement also gave Apple execs an opening for a jab at their competitor. Read more from Windows Central. https://flip.it/DPyYQU
#Tech #Technology #AI #Microsoft #Apple
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The Love Letter Generator That Foretold ChatGPT.
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
By: Patricia Fancher. via @JSTOR_Daily
New #introduction time:
👋 Hey, I've been here on the Fedi for the last 7 years.
Founding member of @weareopencoop working at the intersection of #learning, #technology & #community.
Was PM of #MoodleNet, a decentralised digital commons built on #ActivityPub from 2018-2020 which has morphed into @bonfire, a federated app toolkit.
Wrote doctoral thesis on #digitalliteracies. Was on Mozilla's #OpenBadges team & led #WebLiteracy work.
Pursuing MSc in #SystemsThinking
I like 🏔️🥃⚽
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#OTD in 1868.
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was patented by Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden & Samuel W. Soule.The typewriter was initially referred to as the "Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer." The machine featured a keyboard with letters arranged in an early version of the QWERTY layout, which was developed to reduce jamming by separating commonly used letter pairs.
We're committed to always improving your browsing experience with our core principles: Powerful, Personal, Private.
🍎 This time on Vivaldi 6.8 on iOS, we want you to join us on a more Personal browsing journey.
Here's what's new for your iOS device:
💤 Keep tabs organized with a full overview of inactive ones.
🔗 Open links in background and browse smoothly with fewer interruptions.
🔖 Access your bookmarks faster.
🎨 More ways to customize your Speed Dials.
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Don’t forget to update now and see how Vivaldi 6.8 makes browsing a powerful experience! 🌟📱
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-ios-6-8/
#tech #technology #apple #ios #appstore #mobile #browser #adblocker
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Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist Nikola Tesla was born #OTD in 1856.
Some of Tesla´s inventions and innovations: alternating Current (AC) system; induction motor; Tesla coil; wireless transmission of electricity; radio technology; remote control; neon and fluorescent lighting; X-Ray technology; Tesla turbine; oscillators and frequency generators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Books by Nikola Tesla at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067
#OTD in 1876.
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were common technologies for printing small quantities of a document, as in office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. For even smaller quantities, up to about five, a typist would use carbon paper.
Good news! Our universe just got bigger — now you can follow and interact with profiles from @Mastodon, @threads and other federated social services on Flipboard.
Download the Flipboard app to follow @georgetakei, @taylorlorenz, @potus and more. See posts from the fediverse alongside content from your favorite publishers.
Read more about how it all works: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/
And as always, we welcome questions and feedback!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Flipboard #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology #Threads
This week, we've featured several amazing tech and science voices from the Mastodon community on Flipboard!
In case you missed the news, you can now follow anyone from the fediverse in the Flipboard app. We're excited to introduce our readers to people in the Mastodon community, including @alyssam_infosec, @annaleen, @pomarede, @HelenBranswell, @lisamelton, @percepticon, @parismarx, @TatianaIlyina, @skrishna and @zackwhittaker.
To follow these accounts on Flipboard, download the app and visit the Tech & Science tab in Explore. You'll see posts from the fediverse accounts you follow in the new Fediverse Activity carousel in the For You feed.
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Tech #Science #Flipboard #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Technology
English physicist and radio astronomer Bernard Lovell was born #OTD in 1913.
He is best known for his contributions to the development of airbone radar (particularly on the magnetron) during World War II. He was also the founder of Jodrell Bank Observatory. The centerpiece of the observatory was the Lovell Telescope, completed in 1957. At the time, it was the largest steerable radio telescope in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lovell
The Accelerationists’ App: How #Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
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From attempting to incite racially motivated #violence to encouraging attacks on critical #infrastructure, the alleged crimes planned and advertised by extremists on Telegram go far beyond the charges facing CEO Pavel Durov.
#News #Crime #Technology #Tech #Terrorism #Extremism #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/telegram-pavel-durov-arrest-domestic-terrorism-extremism
Get ready for release day! 🎉
In the new update, you get more ways to manage your tabs. For starters, you can now find open tabs across your devices right from your sidebar, in a neatly organized way.
It gets better: you can now rename your tab or tab stacks to anything that helps you stay organized and in control of your tabs.
Find out all about 6.9 and update your browser with all the new features, feature improvements and fixes 👇
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-9/
#tech #Technology #browser #tabmanagement #NewRelease #release #vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #Desktop
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NEW: Details of people's therapy sessions—including reports, video and audio recordings—have been exposed by a healthcare company.
These included people mentioning sexual abuse and highly sensitive subjects. The exposed database has now been closed down
https://www.wired.com/story/confidant-health-therapy-records-database-exposure/ #cybersecurity #privacy #news #technology
This funding is significant because it indicates that investors who have put money into Web3 are interested in the federated social web (and other non-blockchain decentralization). #Technology https://werd.io/2024/bluesky-announces-series-a-to-grow-network-of-13m-users
#OTD in 1906.
The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. It was the first flight to be publicly witnessed by a crowd and also filmed.
It was also the first powered flight by a non-Wright Brothers airplane aside from short powered "hops" by Clément Ader and Traian Vuia.
![Alberto Santos Dumont's 14-bis with the Blériot IV in the background. [Jules Beau Collection. Sports photography]: T. 33. Years 1906 and 1907 / Jules Beau: F. 15 [Les étapes de l\ aviation. Santos-Dumont's new triumph.](/proxy/post_attachment/367548/c94f236425.jpg "Alberto Santos Dumont's 14-bis with the Blériot IV in the background. [Jules Beau Collection. Sports photography]: T. 33. Years 1906 and 1907 / Jules Beau: F. 15 [Les étapes de l\ aviation. Santos-Dumont's new triumph.")
In the Stereoscope, Another World
Developed in the nineteenth century, the stereoscope gave people a new way of seeing themselves and the world around them.
By: Betsy Golden Kellem via @JSTOR_Daily
Tesla’s Pigeon
An inventor, a bird, and a plan to connect all the minds in the world.
By Amanda Gefter via @NautilusMag
Nikola Tesla's Obsession with Pigeons, Electricity, and a Plan to Wirelessly Connect the World
Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #tech #technology #ai #energy #cartoon
Elon Musk's posting addiction might be causing regulators to decline a plan that would let SpaceX launch more rockets out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Read more at @xataka. #ElonMusk #SpaceX #X #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/-Y8rwB
"This illustrated storybook represents a broad spectrum of themes and trends playing out across a number of #religions and countries that include Hindu temples made by 3D printers to priests that dance on TikTok. They speak to the unraveling tensions of our time as people turn to #technology to simplify their lives, search for answers, or find platform-born fame."
#OTD in 1879.
Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (lasting 13,5 hours before burning out).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb
U.S. patent 0,223,898 by Thomas Edison for an improved electric lamp, 27 January 1880:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US223898
Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/820
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March for Science Posters
— Beyond Curie is a design project that highlights badass women in science, technology, engineering + mathematics.
by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Videoclip SO FUCKING COOL ! Demo 2
First AI Video Gen+ Plus FX HD Experiment
directed by Alan Smithee
Music: Artista di Merda - SO FUCKING COOL! Demo 2
Part of transmedia Non-Sequitur TOO COOL*** Games MINDFUCK
“TV or not TV, that is the question.”
#Pataphysics #Memetics #Memewars #Electronicmusic #Hyperpop #Hyperreality #PostReality #AIMusic #AIVideo #Technology #Computers #Beachparty #Bulldada #Virtual #Funk #TOOCOOL #Fnord #Thegame23
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Although the Nonprofit Industrial Complex has some sophisticated gatekeepers barring access, I've renewed my efforts to find San Francisco Bay Area cooperators interested in my proposed nonprofit for unique S.T.E.A.M.-focused ArtScience demonstration projects that serve the common good.
While general participants are welcome, I need the commitment of board-level founders.
#SFBA, #EastBay, #NonProfit, #Research, #Design, #Development, #CitizenScience, #Science, #Technology, #Engineering, #Arts, #Math, #Cooperative, #Mutualism, #Prefigurative
Mária Telkes died #OTD in 1980. She was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, & inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.
During World War II, she developed a solar water distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors. In the 1940s she and architect Eleanor Raymond created one of the first solar-heated houses, Dover Sun House, by storing energy each day.
