computers
Amazon Kindle: an electronic book
People have been talking about electronic replacements for books for quite some time. But Amazon may be the first company to offer a viable realizati…
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Adobe Acrobat Reader 8
The Reference Frame recommends you to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 with GPU acceleration, simplified menubar, improved tools for collaboration, and…
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Cryptocurrencies, a speculative mania
Those who have invested a lot of money into the Bitcoin or the Ethereum, a new competitor, at least half a year ago have become wealthy. The Bitcoin&…
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Aurora: new LaTeX for MS Office
Aurora is a new competitor for TeX4PPT and TeXpoint . It's much more professional but it is not for free except for a one-month trial. If you pr…
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Aspects of the bursting cryptobubble
Eight days ago, when I wrote the most recent Bitcoin post , the Bitcoin price was still stuck close to $6,350 – a plateau that had been almost stable…
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FBI and Hillary: some question marks
In July, the FBI ended the investigation of Ms Hillary Clinton because of her apparent violation of computer security regulations when she was the U.…
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How does an average French woman look like?
A topic for Valentine's Day. Did you ever want to know how the/an average German woman or the/an average black American woman looks like? Those q…
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Mathematica 10 released
Stephen Wolfram and colleagues have released a new version of Wolfram Mathematica , Mathematica 10: Launching Mathematica 10— with 700+ New Functions…
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Turning sphere inside out
This animation shows how to turn a sphere outside in. For a circle, it is impossible because the turning number, a topological invariant, must be co…
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CME futures should stop, drive Bitcoin price towards zero
The judgement day could be December 18th when the trading starts Update: CBOE will start earlier, on Sunday December 10th at 5 pm Chicago time The B…
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Munich city hall: Linux transition was a failed political experiment
The Bavarian capital likely to restore Windows For decades, I have been emphasizing that the people aggressively recommending Linux to common users a…
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Barack Obama passes the Turing test, too
The famous computer science pioneer Alan Turing decided to define "artificial intelligence" as the machine's ability to speak in such a…
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Icon's story
When you go to bed at night and forget to shut down your computer, I think you ought to know what actually goes on. It's 2 AM and do you know whe…
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Microsoft Surface & surface computing
A year ago, everyone would think that the ultimate übergadget in the future would look like a cell phone. But you might ask: why is it exactly this p…
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One million visitors
The unique visitor number 1,000,000 (where uniqueness is counted on a daily basis) came from IP 71.203.223.# (Comcast Cable) in the U.S. He or she di…
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Phun: physics fun
This is a demo of an amazing program simulating mechanics that was created as a part of a master thesis. You should have it, too! Phun home page Phun…
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LaTeX editor LEd: a competition for WinEdt
Olda Klimánek has pointed out the following Polish editor to me: LEd It doesn't stand for Louis Ed but rather for LaTeX Editor. If you spend one …
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Street View: Antarctica, deep ocean, Alps, Mars, etc.
If you haven't played with Google Maps for some time, you may want to try some of the wonderful links below. Note that the Street View always all…
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