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fastcodesign:
The Life Of Steve Jobs, Rendered As An Old-School Mac Desktop
This interactive online memorial, rendered as a pixel-perfect simulation of the original Macintosh OS, separates Jobs’ life into folders, with each milestone presented as its own program.
Here’s the scoop.
(via parislemon)
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Digital currency bitcoin continues its remarkable and somewhat inexplicable run. It’s up 152% this month, and today the total value of all outstanding bitcoins—its market capitalization, if you will—topped $1 billion for the first time before settling back down.
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ediplomacy:
 As reported today by Mashable’s Alex Fitzpatrick, a massive and relatively new form of cyberattack aimed at a sole company is dragging large swaths of the global Internet down with it, interrupting services and causing traffic slowdowns across the world.
The attack — which some experts are…
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parislemon:
Hadi Partovi, who ran Program Management through the launch of Internet Explorer 5.0, answers on Quora:
Microsoft had decided that the browser war was over, browsers are history, and the new enemy was AOL.
Throughout my time at Microsoft, it has always been sad to see the Internet side define itself more based on who it wanted to compete with (Netscape, AOL, Yahoo, Google), rather than defining its own vision of what it wanted to be.
I remember switching to IE back in the day because it was just a better browser. Then Microsoft, having (illegally) killed Netscape, stopped giving a shit. Then came IE6. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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techspotlight:
BBC News - ATMs to operate without a card
New technology to enable people to withdraw money from cash machines using their smartphone has been unveiled. Customers who use the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) or NatWest mobile banking app can now request cash, up to £100, via their smartphone. They are given a six-digit code to enter into an ATM to release the cash. A similar system has been developed by cash machine operator NCR. This requires users to scan a barcode to withdraw the money. The services are the latest developments in a long-predicted move towards the smartphone becoming a digital wallet.
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A new standard which will enable the creation of trillions of new internet addresses has been enabled.
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 Technology...,
when misused, poisons air, soil, water and lives. But a world without technology would be prey to something worse: the impersonal ruthlessness of the natural order, in which the health of a species depends on relentless sacrifice of the weak. |
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