This is not a “scan every image you (the law abiding citizen) upload” solution, such as suggested by Apple among others. This is making the unique digital hash evidence of illegal child abuse images and videos available to the Internet Watch Foundation that has the resources to search the internet …
Noughts and Crosses. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.
In 1952 one of the first computer games was programmed and run on a computer the size of your house! Alexander Douglas was studying at Cambridge University for a PhD, when he wrote a simulation of Noughts and Crosses (known in other places as ‘Tic-Tac-Toe’), as part of his thesis …
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IBM 726 dual tape drive. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.
There was a time, in TV and movie history, when if you needed to show a really powerful computer, then it needed lots of big cabinets with big spinning tapes – for example have a look at the image above from the 1964 film Dr Strangelove or the example below …
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How many transistors are there in the processor in your computer? A Platinum Jubilee Fact.
I have an Intel i7 processor in my laptop – and a quick Google search on the model of chip did not give an exact answer, but it must be billions – so quite a lot. The modern computer age owes it’s birth to the discovery of the transistor – …
Morals in the Metaverse
This is an article worth reading by Laurie Clarke. It starts with a disturbing account of one woman’s experience of the fledgling Metaverse and goes on to look at the technology, issues and solutions that may shape the next step in immersive technology. Can we create a moral metaverse? | …
