The first laser: 66 years of the light that changed the world
On 16 May 1960, Maiman fired the first laser in history. 66 years on, the internet, CDs and LASIK would not exist …
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Information security in plain English: scams, hardening and privacy — plus retrogaming, games and geek culture.
GPS: 26 years since the night Clinton switched off the error
On 1 May 2000, Clinton switched off Selective Availability and civilian GPS became 10 times more accurate. The decision …
Ubiquitous computing: how Mark Weiser predicted today's world
Mark Weiser died on 27 April 1999, aged 46, without seeing the future he predicted: invisible computers in everything — …
COVID-19: A Real-Time Threat!
How the pandemic became the first major global event monitored live through dashboards, APIs and open maps — and what we …