by jnelson | Feb 21, 2020 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, News
Every day there’s more exciting news about self-driving automobiles. Unfortunately, much of it is bad. This is to be expected in testing radical new technology in complicated, real-life environments. The shift from horse-drawn carriages to Model T Fords was not...
by jnelson | Oct 5, 2019 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items
Cosmic rays are not the only hazards that constantly threaten integrated circuits and chips. There are weird effects of pure metals “growing” or “dying” straight out of an alchemist’s manual that are equally dangerous. And like the danger...
by jnelson | Sep 5, 2019 | How the Net Works, News
Cosmic rays – the very name sounds like a futuristic beam weapon from a new sci-fi movie. But cosmic rays are quite real: powerful atomic particles hurled at near the speed of light by titanic explosions across the depths of intergalactic space. A hail of them, blown...
by jnelson | Feb 6, 2019 | How the Net Works, News
Fifteen years ago, Facebook was born in a dorm room at Harvard. Unheralded and little noticed at first, Mark Zuckerberg’s baby took over the campus with surprising rapidity. First Harvard, then the Ivy League, then high schools, and by September 2006, the world....
by jnelson | Nov 10, 2018 | How the Net Works, News
The Walt Disney Company is celebrating the 90th birthday of the world’s most famous rodent, Mickey Mouse(TM), with a TV special and an exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. Ever since he was first dreamed up by Uncle Walt nearly a century ago, his firm has been able...
by jnelson | Sep 12, 2018 | How the Net Works, News
In the future, September 11 may have another depressing association with infamy and loss. For on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, the European Parliament voted to wreck the internet. They authorized sweeping but ludicrously naive changes to how the net must fundamentally...
