In an era of solid-state drives and cloud computing, rhyal.com is a relic of the past. But the website tells an important story. My first ever website was on Geocities and most of the hyperlinks didn’t go anywhere. It was half-finished but I was desperate to get it online. I was 11 at the time …
No two cups of tea are ever the same but T2 the Tea Bot brews your cuppa for the optimum length and taste. How do you like your tea? How long should you brew it for? These questions have conjured up different answers for centuries. But now we have a robot to answer them for …
Facebook’s UX master Margaret Gould Stewart spoke about hyperlinks and their symbolic status on the Web. As you can see, I’ve fallen down a hypertext/hyperlink rabbit hole lately and been on the search for more of the same. I stumbled upon this video a few days ago and it’s a brilliant albeit short watch. Margaret …
Facebook plays its part in creating an AI bot capable of beating millionaire poker players at their own game. I’ve played poker once, amongst people who weren’t much better than me. I prefer card games like solitaire and switch. But for professional card players, games like poker are their lifeblood. And they have a new …
Hypertext still makes the world wide web go round but things were really spinning back in the 90s.
Was the mention of 8GB on the Raspberry Pi 4 manual a typo or a sign of things to come?
No longer free but still cost-effective.
If elements were animals, some would be on the vulnerable list. This periodic table shows the ones at risk.
The operating system is open-source and could see its biggest consumer application on Huawei devices. Linux is in so much of our day-to-day technology interactions. In the future, it could be in the palm of your hand. Huawei is considering replacing Android with Sailfish OS as its main operating system. But what is Sailfish OS? …
It’s like a PiDA but way cooler. Remember Palm Pilots? Those personal digital assistants that you could put all your meetings into. I was way too young to own or even need one before they died out. Then came more sophisticated mobile phones which I wasn’t too young to own or need. And now we …
The government aim to start using Fugaku in 2021. Back in 2009, I started working at Fujitsu in Stevenage, UK. 10 years later and they’re helping to make a supercomputer for Japan. Together with the RIKEN research institute, they are developing a new supercomputer for the nation. The name Fugaku was announced on 23rd May …
It looks like the republic is one of many nations to switch to the open source OS. Yay, a Linux article at last! South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety confirmed they’ll be moving their systems from Windows 7 to Linux in the coming months. The migration is said to be influenced by cost-cutting …