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Here are some of the the major AI trends shaping 2026 — based on current expert forecasts, industry reports, and recent developments in technology. The material is analyzed using AI tools and final version hand-edited to this blog text: 1. Generative AI Continues to Mature Generative AI (text, image, video, code) will become more advanced →
The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is held every year in Las Vegas. The world’s biggest annual consumer technology show is ready and raring to welcome back thousands of exhibitors and media to Las Vegas in the beginning of the year. This year the event started January 6, 2026. CES 2026 will feature the latest →
Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. The company was started in 1975. To mark the occasion, founder Bill Gates has released the original code that launched the entire technology company — the Altair BASIC interpreter. According to Gates, it was “the coolest code I’ve ever written.” The source code is now available at →
An expert has seen a huge change in just a few months: Concerns about Finnish data have exploded, thanks to Musk and Trump. Trust in the US is eroding: Companies are looking for European alternatives to Amazon, Microsoft and Google President Donald Trump’s administration in the United States has shown in a short time that →
In the tech world, there is a constant flow of changes and keeping up with them means the choice for tools and technologies which are the most appropriate to invest your time in. In 2025 the best programming language or technology stack to learn really depends on your personal aims, hobbies, and apps you are →
Here is a collection of links to information on the history of the PC sound and PC sound cards. LGR – Evolution of PC Audio – As Told by Secret of Monkey Island Evolution of PC Graphics and Sound as told by The Secret of Monkey Island Before sound cards Before Soundcards were common place, →
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source[12] web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Firefox web browser turned 20 years old just few days ago. Frederic Lardinois / →
In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open. To many, the internet and especially the World Wide Web didn’t seem to be of any major significance yet. The the Hot New Thing in the world of PCs was multimedia. CD-ROM was introductroduced in 1985, →
The PC floppy disk drive is a type of disk drive that reads and writes data to and from a floppy disk, which was a common data storage medium from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Floppy disks were so common in late 20th-century culture that many electronic and software programs continue to use save →
The Hacker Test was an old test of how much of a ‘hacker’ (as in ‘nerd’, not ‘cracker’) you are. Since it came out in 1990, almost all of the questions are obsolete. That makes it a really neat historical document of what people considered cool at the time. Hacker Test History https://github.com/hwayne/hacker-test-history →