Author: Calvin M. Barker

There’s a set of servers in Ottawa processing information that can one day find a cure for cancer. This week, Techopia Live sat down with Roy Chartier and Tyler Nelson, of the guys behind Cancer Computer, a charity that’s taking used hardware and turning that processing power on one of the world’s maximum lethal illnesses. […]

In her lately released e-book Broad Band, Claire L. Evans needs readers to learn about ladies who have been forgotten in tech records. Ada Lovelace may not be a family call like Steve Jobs. However, she is probably the first computer programmer. Following is a transcript of the video. How A Woman From The 1800s […]

Generally, computer systems sluggish down as they age. Their processors struggle to address more modern software. Apple even intentionally slows its iPhones as their batteries degrade. But Google researchers have published info on a task that could allow a pc or cellphone to learn to do matters better and quicker through the years. The researchers […]

Ghanaian immigrant Abe Ankumah had by no means worked on a laptop earlier than enrolling in university at California Institute of Technology — now he runs records computing company Nyanza. “Looking returned at it, it is crazy and additionally quite humbling,” Ankumah informed Fort Knox for CNBC. “[The] first time, freshman 12 months at Cal […]

It’s now not for the general public (“accessible within the Yale library”). However, researchers are operating on a “frequent translator” for antique computer documents that could, in any other case, be lost to obsolescence. Jessica Leigh Hester, at Atlas Obscura: When one CCA traveler wanted to test a CD-ROM-based totally “multimedia website” produced alongside a […]