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Obsoleted Windows XP has become old. It’s Windows XP’s 20th birthday and way too many still use it https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/its-windows-xps-20th-birthday-and-way-too-many-still-use-it/ ”Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows XP, and although the operating system reached the end of support in 2014, way too many people continue to use the insecure version of Windows.” “Windows XP was released →
With more than 34 million units sold, the Raspberry Pi is not only one of the world’s most popular computers; it’s also one of the most important. The profits from the sale of Raspberry Pi computers help fund the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s educational initiatives. Raspberry Pi Launches New Website For Its Hardware article writes that →
I had some old game controllers that plug to USB port that I wanted to test. How to test game controllers connected to a PC? Preferably without installing new app I would be just using few times and forget to my PC. Nowadays you can test the joystick using web browser thanks to HTML 5 →
The eccentric genius and brain behind my first computer (ZX Spectrum), Sir Clive Sinclair, has passed away. Home computers, digital calculators, television in pocket, electric vehicles — he pioneered many of these things. Read more at Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58587521 Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81 →
This day in history August 12,1981, MS-DOS is released. Now you know. MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Default user interface: Command-line (COMMAND.COM), text (DOS Shell) Final release: 8.0 (Windows Me) / September 14, 2000; 20 years ago Initial release date: 1981 Source model: Closed source; open source →
Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of those in the technology community have imagined a future state of, if not quasi-successor to, the Internet – called the “Metaverse”. Metverse is a vision of the future networking that sounds fantastical. The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space[1] including the sum of all virtual →
The venerable ATX standard was developed in 1995 by Intel. It uses a power supply with many output voltages to motherboard. Ever since the original ATX PSU standard, the improvements have been gradual and never disruptive. Intel has been feeling some years that it is time to update the way PC motherboards. Starting in 2019, →
About 1 percent of all electricity generated goes to cloud computing. By the end of this decade, we could be devoting 8 percent or more. How much energy can we dedicate to all this computing? Software and hardware engineering will no doubt need to reorient their design practices more around power efficiency. Read more: Cloud →
Happy birthday, Donkey Kong – and Mario! Donkey Kong celebrates its 40th anniversary today THE ICONIC APE AND MARIO BOTH MADE THEIR DEBUTS ON JULY 9, 1981 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/donkey-kong-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary-today/ It was on July 9, 1981 that Nintendo first published and released the original Donkey Kong arcade machines in Japan, kicking off a series that would remain →
RISC-V is an interesting open hardware CPU. My Can RISC-V – Linux of Microprocessors – Start an Open Hardware Renaissance? post from few years back told that RISC-V is the most promising open CPU design, but asked can it succeed in competitive CPU market? In a quite short history a lot has happened. Not it →