How the invention of cut and paste helped change software forever

After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste.Continue ReadingCategory: Remarkable People, LifestyleTags: Xerox, History, Software, Computer Continue reading How the invention of cut and paste helped change software forever

Scientists identify more than 1,000 sharks and rays tangled in ocean waste

Scientists at the University of Exeter have turned to Twitter for a better picture of the effect ocean plastics are having on sharks and rays…
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Why Super Mario Maker 2 is the game my daughter and I have been waiting for

“Little Thunder,” as I call her, has been obsessed with Mario since Super Mario Odyssey appeared. But the launch of Super Mario Maker 2 has elevated our screen time from mere fun to something rather special…
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Full-size C64 console to come with 64 games plus working keyboard

A new retro games console, dubbed the C64, bucks the trend of recent retro games boxes, being a full-sized recreation of the machine on which it’s based: the Commodore 64 (which originally launched in 1982 – basically Victorian times)…
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Global warming: Can these striking charts convince nay-sayers?

We live in increasingly polarized times. Times where your point of
view defines more than your stance on a particular topic – it defines
who you are. Perhaps that’s why people are so unlikely to change their
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Why I'm quitting Dropbox (and Dropbox is fine with that)

Dropbox doesn't really seem to want me as a customer

I don’t know when I opened my Dropbox account. It was years ago –
probably not long after it was founded in 2007. Since then I’ve been a
fan of the way Dropbox makes saving files in the cloud – and sharing
them – quick and easy. When it arrived, its camera uploads feature
solved the problem of getting photos off my phone and somewhere secure –
somewhere that wasn’t locking me in to Apple, or any other hardware
company’s ecosystem.

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