Fluorescent Multilayer Disc History: Innovation You Could See Through
We don’t talk enough about vaporware over here, so let’s discuss two attempts to make optical discs fluorescent … both of which went absolutely nowhere.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with co-counsel Durie Tangri, is defending the Internet Archive against a lawsuit that threatens its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program.The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, preserving and providing access to cultural artifacts of all...
The History of Safari on Windows - Why Did It Fail?
● Liked this video? Subscribe for more: http://mjd.yt/subscribeFor most of its life, the Safari web browser has remained exclusive to Apple devices. But back...
Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]
Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps
Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there's more to the story.
Vivaldi in Polestar: The first browser for Android Automotive OS
Available today exclusively in the Polestar 2, Vivaldi just became the first browser on Android Automotive OS. Take a full-scale browser with you on the road.
Refreshing The Verge: writing a new mission statement
The Verge turns five on November 1st, and we’re in the process of refreshing our entire brand for the next five years. In Refreshing The Verge, we’ll be looking at how that refresh process works,...
For the past two months, I’ve been switching back and forth between Tweetbot and Twitter’s official app for iOS in a personal quest to understand what’s the best Twitter client for me today. Tweetbot 3.5, available today on the App Store, has given me the biggest incentive to keep using Tapbots’ app yet: integration with