Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The title says it all: Five of the world’s tiniest robots (theconversation.com) Whilst looking for a suitable image for this article I was reminded of Robby, the robot from the 1956 movie, Forbidden Planet, that went on to have it’s own celebrity career, it even appeared in Columbo: Robby the …
It is Father’s Day this Sunday, and just in case you still have to buy your Dad a present, I have some ideas over on Octagon Technology that might help you out: Of course if you are well organised, you bought a gift, card and booked the restaurant or food …
I really wanted to include this in last week’s Platinum Jubilee Technology series, but neither Steve Jobs or Tim Cook were born in 1952 and I could not find any other 1952 link, so here it is as a “Because It’s Friday” blog: Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on | …
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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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It is a Bank Holiday long weekend here, to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – so here is a really quick “Because It’s Friday“. Here is a Randall Munroe take on various types of “scopes” and what they can “see”: xkcd: Types of Scopes Because …
