Tech layoffs: The scorecardFollow the companies that are shedding workers with this live layoff tracker, which we'll continue to update as more news surfaces.
Doesn't the mainstream care about DRM?Does the average, mainstream person really care about DRM? It's a tough question to answer, but Don Reisinger thinks he knows.
The "Father of the Internet" Would Rather You Call Him "Vint"Engineer and innovator Vinton Cerf insists he wasn't the only person instrumental in creating the Internet, which is true but also modest: He wrote the communication protocol for Arpanet (the “original” Internet developed by the Defense Department in the late 1960s) and codesigned the protocols (known as TCP/IP—Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) that allow computers everywhere to communicate with each other.
Is It Time to Chuck the Internet and Start Over?What to do about the Internet? The overcrowded, patched-together Web of today is hardly a base on which to build the massive, sleek worldwide communications device that 1.5 billion people now demand. So do we scrap what we have and start over?
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Elections5) On election night in 1952, TV viewers saw Walter Cronkite sitting beside UNIVAC 1, which famously called the race for Eisenhower after only 7 percent of the vote had been tallied. 6) But it was a lie: Cronkite sat beside a cardboard panel with blinking Christmas lights. The real computer was projecting returns in Pennsylvania.
What Is the Future of Time?Time isn't the same as it used to be. A minute 50 years ago was nothing—now, in the wake of broadband and kilobytes, it's an eternity. But how much can we really control the one thing that has remained constant throughout history—even if our perceptions of it have changed?
Want an Easy Way to Control Your Gadgets? Talk to Them.In AT&T’s voice-recognition system, the remote control captures speech from the user—“I want to see Channel 114”—compresses it, and uses a wireless connection to send it to a very smart computer running Watson, which works on understanding exactly what you want to accomplish.
How Long Until We Find a Second Earth?"We'll find an Earth-mass planet by 2010 and an Earth-mass planet that's potentially habitable by 2012," says University of California astronomer Greg Laughlin, whose team is race a French group to find the heavenly jackpot: an Earth-like planet that is home to alien life.
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