One genre once flew atop the computer game industry – then came crashing down. Here’s why we owe so much to flight sims.| The History of How We Play
A forgotten strand of computing illuminates the famous stories of the early micros.| The History of How We Play
Google’s jokes for April 1st have been the stuff of legend but this year we celebrate something very serious. 20 years ago to this day, Google’s April 1st ‘joke’ was the serious launch of Gmail, a service that revolutionized not just emails, but the internet itself. Back when it wasn’t at all unusual to host […]| TechTheLead
The famous Lenna image, of Playboy model Lena Forsén, can’t be used in any more research papers published on IEEE, the organization announced this week. They’re following on the tails of the Nature journal, which banned the Lena image back in 2018. Michel P. Frank revealed on X an email he received from IEEE’s Technical […]| TechTheLead
In August 2022, I joined up with Ars Technica as their AI and Machine Learning Reporter. Of course, even while documenting one of the wildest cutting-edge stories in tech at the moment, my heart never strays far from the subject of this site: vintage technology and the history behind it. In between writing about AI […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming