In 1930, U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. The existence of an unknown ninth planet was first proposed by Percival Lowell, who theorized that wobbles in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune were caused by the gravitational pull of an unknown planetary body. Learn more […]
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Google Inc. had been bypassing the privacy settings on iPhones and computers to track the Web-browsing habits of millions of people using Safari, even if this type of monitoring was intended to be blocked. Google used special computer code
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In 1959, Vanguard II, the first weather satellite, was launched. Vanguard II was the first satellite designed to observe and record the cloud cover of the earth. It was a forerunner of the television infrared observation satellites (TIROS). It is still in orbit. Learn more
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This is the question I was confronted with just recently. My lovely wife is an avid reader, everywhere she goes she totes a book along with her. She had a birthday coming up early February, after scratching my head furiously, as I do every year
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According to Nilay Patel at The Verge, Apple has announced the developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. It is the next iteration in the Mac operating system but ‘Mac’ is conspicuously absent in its name. Mountain Lion includes new features such as Notification
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By now. we get it. Apple is going to release a new one of (almost) everything, every year. It might get kind of annoying, but really, you can’t blame them. Cell phone companies do the same thing all year long: they feature a new,
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***Exclusive To DCT*** Contest has ENDED and winners announced! Kestrel Wulfing von Schleinitz David Forness Arie toiaeugen Chuck Billow Ronald Chambers Dave LG Isabella A BIG thank you to Ashampoo for their support of DCT and our readers! Ashampoo has just released the latest version
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In 1978, the first Computer Bulletin Board System (BBS) went online. The first BBS went online in the suburban Chicago home of Walt Christensen. It operated on a North Star Horizon 4 Mhz CP/M computer with a 5 MB hard drive and a 110 Bps
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In 1999, American scientist Henry W. Kendall died. Henry Kendall, together with his colleagues Richard E. Taylor and Jerome I. Friedman, won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments which proved the existence of fundamental building bricks, called quarks, as constituents of the neutron
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For a period of time yesterday (Tues 2/14/12) Microsoft’s security products, Forefront and Microsoft Security Essentials, reported that www.google.com was infected with the Blacole.BW exploit for users browsing with Internet Explorer. It appears as though the definition updates Microsoft released alongside the other Patch Tuesday
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A simple but useful option available in Windows 7, which many may not be aware of, is the ability to display up to 2 additional time zones via the System Tray Clock. Living in Oz and continually battling the time differences, I have found this
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In an earnings call with Apple in October of 2010, Steve Jobs was talking tablets, namely, the iPad. The call featured Jobs boasting about the number of iPhones (14.1 million) and iPads (4.19 million) the company had sold in the previous quarter. This was the
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In 1924, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was founded by Thomas Watson. IBM’s predecessor was Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, or C-T-R. Thomas Watson began expanding overseas—beyond the UK, Canada and Germany where its products were already sold—taking tiny C-T-R global. He renamed C-T-R with the more expansive
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Mozilla’s very existence was founded on the doctrines of open competition. Indeed, its flagship Firefox browser was primarily conceived to provide Windows users with a viable alternative to the dominant yet insecure Internet Explorer. It appears Mozilla is now preparing to apply the principle across
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