In 1967, Robert J Van De Graaff, U.S. nuclear physicist, died at age 65. He developed a high-voltage electrostatic generator (later called the Van de Graaff generator). You’ll remember it from your local science museum. It is the metal ball that you put your hands […]
In 1850, mathematician Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky was born. She faced much discrimination as a woman in the field of mathematics. Her greatest success in mathematics occurred in 1888 when she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Sciences for her paper On the
Increasing numbers of links point to web pages, servers or other resources that have become permanently unavailable. The phrase also describes the effects of failing to update out-of-date web pages that clutter search engine results. A link that does not work any more is called
In 1742, Edmond Halley died at age 85. Using Isaac Newton’s new Laws of Motion, Edmond Halley made a prediction in 1705 that a comet which had appeared in 1531, 1607 and 1682 would reappear in 1758. He didn’t live to see its return. The
In 1989, hundreds of IBM computers across Britain were hit by the “Friday the 13th” virus. The virus wiped out program files and caused considerable anxiety at a time when large-scale computer viruses were a relatively new threat. Learn more at http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-13/news/mn-402_1_computer-virus
This is part 1 of a 4 part series evaluating and comparing 3 alternative cleaning suites. The three products are SlimCleaner, Toolwiz Care and Wise Disk Cleaner: Part 2: Toolwiz Care — Part 3: Wise Disk Cleaner — Part 4: Conclusion CCleaner has been around
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In 1853, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, an Italian mathematician, was born. He was instrumental in the development of absolute differential calculus, formerly called the Ricci calculus, but now known as tensor analysis. Learn more at http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Ricci-Curbastro.html In 2001, William Hewlett died at age 87. William Hewlett and
Security strategies have long been a hot chestnut for discussion, opinions are as varied as the software itself and myths abound. Achieving maximum security is theoretically as easy as merely installing lots and lots of lovely security software – but in reality, elements such as
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According to Macworld, Apple has announced an education-related event for later this month. This is not unexpected as it had been widely speculated that such an event would occur. The event will take place on January 19th at 10:00 AM EST at the Solomon R.
The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is underway in Las Vegas this week, and as always, I’ve been salivating over many of the lust-worthy new devices, such as the upcoming PC line from Vizio I previewed yesterday. When I saw news from several different
In 1997, the Telstar 401 satellite failed due to an electric discharge during a geomagnetic storm. Telstar 401 was the first of AT&T’s next generation of video- and data-communications satellites. Learn more at http://sirius-c.ncat.edu/space/Space-Weather/poetry/storm1/t401lau2.html
To date, Google has enjoyed a monopoly for porting popular mobile game apps to its Chrome browser, most notably the Angry Birds game. It now seems Microsoft are ready to join the fray, no doubt mostly in anticipation of the impending release of Windows 8
A Colorado District Court judge is currently deliberating whether or not an order should be issued to compel a defendant into revealing her password so encrypted data on her laptop can be accessed and investigated. The defendant is accused of committing financial fraud and access
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January 10th proved to be monumental date for the companies America Online, Time, Inc. and Warner Communications. On this date in 1990, Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications for $14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates. Also on
