Here’s how you sent an email using your phone line back in 1984. WarGames anyone? People questioned whether email could survive in a world of different communication channels but it remains the #1. According to Mailbird, there are 3.7 billion email accounts worldwide and 86% of professionals prefer emails for communication. Back in 1984, emails …
DatCode is a community of Black coders serving as a place to share knowledge, collaborate, and meet new people. Both myself and Ashton are part of it and it’s an amazing hub of education and fun. They also do a podcast on everything from movies to music, culture, and, of course, technology. DATCODE is a …
Lara Croft set a lot of tongues wagging with her boxy bosom and polygon posterior as the titular “Tomb Raider”. The game launched in 1996 and 21 years later, via various name changes and a redesign (her breasts aren’t so inflated now,) you can now play the original in your browser. OpenLara has been completely …
If you’re not a white cis man in tech, you’re financially discriminated against, according to a recent study.
David Majors is the producer/host of Anime Podcast of Some Sort, It’s In Season and Two Nerdy Black Guys; three delectably nerdy podcasts that are essential listening for any self-professed blerd or otaku. Topics of conversation included: Diversity in Comic Books, the anime that he’d watch on a voyage through the cosmos and the technology that …
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone calling the Raspberry Pi the Ferrari of miniature computing. But sure enough, someone has combined the two names together in a different way. Matthew Leigh, MD of Infomagnet, used an old Ferarri tape deck to house a Raspberry Pi. The intention was to continue using the deck for its …
If you’ve played Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal before, you’ll have heard of Pokérus. It was a virus that allowed your party to gains double the effort values from battling once it spread. The chances of catching it “naturally” were 3 in 65,536 (about 0.0046%) so your best bet would have been cheating or catching it from a …
With the help of a supercomputer, scientists have come up with a theory about the Earth’s core and why it doesn’t melt.
From bidding on a Sega Saturn to buying a Raspberry Pi, last weekend was dedicated to retro gaming in some form or other.