We the Animals by Justin Torres
Reviewed by Nan from Tucson, Arizona.
Today is the 30th birthday of a bit of computer history. On July 23, 1985, Commodore released the Amiga and helped kick off an obsession with 16-bit graphics that remains continues today. If you happen to be in or around Mountain View, California, you can celebrate the auspicious event at the Computer History Museum’s Amiga 30 event which is running over the weekend. If you’re not – and you’re probably not – there’s a wealth of Amiga videos on YouTube to offer that nostalgia kick. And don’t forget the brand lives on with a company planning tablets and smartphones emblazoned with it and…
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The Associated Press and British Movietone announced yesterday that they’re uploading 500,000 historic videos to YouTube. And guess what? The treasure trove is already throwing up gems. Take the video above. It shows the ancestor of the modern vocoder – which is all over modern pop music – being demonstrated in 1939. The Voder (a portmanteau of ‘Voice Operation Demonstrator) was created by the inventor of the Vocoder, Homer Dudley, at Bell Labs. The Vocoder itself began as a project to replicate human speech with a machine and allow it to be transmitted over long distances. Because the Vocoder enabled speech compression…
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Messaging service Line has launched a new Android app that lets users save on storage space and data while staying in touch with their contacts. Line Lite weighs in at less than 1MB, yet retains the core features of the company’s mainstream offering, like group texting, stickers and image sharing. However, it doesn’t include support for audio and video calls and has dropped the Timeline feature as well. The new app is first rolling out to 11 countries including India, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia. Line says it will make it available to other regions depending on user demand, and will…
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Title: Unusual Capsule Could Help Spot Esophagus Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 7/22/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 7/22/2015 12:00:00 AM