Masks distributed in Canada with microscopic graphene potentially toxic
One model of mask distributed to Quebec schools and daycares may be dangerous for the lungs as they could contain a potentially toxic material, according to a directive sent out by the provincial government on Friday. Radio-Canada has obtained documents showing Health Canada warned of the potential for “early pulmonary toxicity” from the SNN200642 masks which are made […]
Hope for Huawei as UK’s Arm Says Latest Chip Not Subject to US Export Controls
(Yicai Global) March 31 — Arm’s new Armv9 chip architecture does not fall under US export regulations, clearing the way for the UK chip designer to sell to blacklisted Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies, the firm said today. Cambridge-based Arm uses intellectual property originating from both the US and of non-US origin, a staff member […]
What Data Can’t Do
Tony Blair was usually relaxed and charismatic in front of a crowd. But an encounter with a woman in the audience of a London television studio in April, 2005, left him visibly flustered. Blair, eight years into his tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister, had been on a mission to improve the National Health Service. The […]
Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman
When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met while waiting in the registration line on their first day of graduate school at Princeton University in 1963, computer science was still a strange new world. Using a computer required a set of esoteric skills typically reserved for trained engineers and mathematicians. But today, thanks in part to […]
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Latest Mozilla VPN features keep your data safe
It’s been less than a year since we launched Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service brought to you by a trusted name in online consumer security and privacy services. Since then we added our Mozilla VPN service to Mac and Linux platforms, joining our VPN service offerings on Windows, Android and […]
Inside A Viral Website
As anyone reading this knows, the Ever Given was stuck in the Suez Canal for just over 6 days. It blocked a route that normally carried ~10% of the world’s trade. More importantly (at least for this post), it also generated more than 10% of the world’s memes. This is an account of running istheshipstillstuck.com. […]
Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billion Pound Tech Company
A dingy and cold early February in a small British town during a pandemic lockdown is not the nicest time and place to take your exercise, but for me it has revived a forgotten memory and an interesting tale of a technology that promised a lot but delivered little. Walking through an early-1990s housing development […]
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Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm
Spreadsheet tools like Excel are often used to create simple (and not so simple) business applications. This poor man’s IDE, database and BI tool is actually very common in big enterprises, so the price is probably not the only reason to use spreadsheets. In this post, I will list some pros and cons of using […]