What Ever Happened to ICQ?
ICQ, short for the phrase "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it arrived in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and th.....»»
Grape genetics research reveals what makes the perfect flower
Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it's only happened twice in nature in the last 6 million years. And since the domestication of the grapevine 8,000 years ago, breeding has continued to be a gamble......»»
On SNL Elon Musk Reveals He Has Asperger Syndrome - and Tanks the Price of Dogecoin
NBC News reports on what exactly happened during Elon Musk's appearance on Saturday Night Live — starting with a surprisingly personal monologue: "I don't always have a lot of intonation or variation in how I speak," Musk said, "which I'm told.....»»
Apple and Epic wrap up first week of their blockbuster trial. Here"s what happened and what"s next
Is Fortnite a game? An app? An expansive virtual universe? All of the above?.....»»
The Daily Crunch: Tech stocks hammered after US Treasury Secretary speculates on hiking interest rates
The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell by more than 2%. Cloud stocks endured twice the damage. What happened? The U.S. government said that it might raise interest rates. So what? Well, when rates were low, lots of money that might have been invested elsewhere w.....»»
Lithia chairman"s sacrifice helps drive surge in stock
With the conversion, which happened four years ahead of schedule, the retailer no longer maintains a dual-class stock structure......»»
California"s Power Grid Hits 95% Renewable Energy. Sort of.
Something remarkable happened last weekend, according to a climate change newsletter by the Los Angeles Times. California, the world's fifth-largest economy, hit nearly 95% renewable energy. Sort of... There are several caveats. For one thing, Sat.....»»
Linux Stops Reverting Most University of Minnesota Patches, Admits Good Faith
destinyland writes: LWN has a terrific update what's happened since the discovery of University of Minnesota researchers intentionally submitting buggy code to the Linux kernel: The writing of a paper on this research [PDF] was not the immediate ca.....»»
The strange tale of how an Apple II computer still powers Russia’s Lenin Museum
In an unusual twist of history, the Apple II computer ended up powering exhibitions at none other than the Lenin Museum in the USSR. Here’s how it happened......»»
Facebook hid posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India ‘by mistake’
Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.” Updated at 5.50am IST, Thursday: Facebook says it temporarily blocked the hashtag by “mistake.....»»
Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India
Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.” Original story follows. Facebook has temporarily hidden all posts with hashtag “ResignModi”.....»»
Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175 million IP addresses to obscure company
Something weird happened minutes before Trump left—US says it was security research. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko) The US Department of Defense puzzled Internet experts by apparently transferring control of tens of mill.....»»
New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought
The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) has important implications for plate tectonics, ocean chemistry and biological evolution. This happened about a half-billion ye.....»»
Flying On Mars Fueled With Open-Source Software
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A small miracle happened at 3:31am ET on Monday morning. Ingenuity, a tiny NASA helicopter, became the first powered aircraft to fly on another planet, Mars. This engineering feat was done with Linux, o.....»»
Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash
Car was reportedly traveling at a "high rate of speed" in a residential area. Enlarge (credit: Sundry Photography / Getty) A 2019 Tesla Model S has crashed in a fiery blaze in The Woodlands, an area north of Houston. The crash, which happened.....»»
Earth"s biggest mass extinction took ten times longer on land than in the water
Our planet's worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive volcanic eruptions caused catastrophic climate change. The vast majority of animal species went extinct, and when the dust settled, the planet entered the early days.....»»
What Happened After Elite Universities Made Standardized Test Scores Optional?
The New York Times reports: Whether college admissions have changed for the long haul remains unclear. But early data suggests that many elite universities have admitted a higher proportion of traditionally underrepresented students this year &mdash.....»»
Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers
A security lapse at online grocery delivery startup Mercato exposed tens of thousands of customer orders, TechCrunch has learned. A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company&#.....»»
Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse
MIT researchers say what happened to Timnit Gebru at Google is part of a centuries-old pattern that people in AI must recognize. MIT researchers say what happened to Timnit Gebru at Google is part of a centuries-old pattern that people in AI must.....»»
Shopping in Boulder at Table Mesa This Weekend
My partner Chris Moody came up with a great idea he’s calling #BoulderStrongTableMesa. This is in response to the mass murder that happened at the King Soopers in Table Mesa on Monday, March 22nd. What if the Boulder community doubled down on #.....»»
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs. Enlarge / What's happened to Russia's flag? (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitt.....»»