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Patrick McCray

@leapingrobot
11 posts
2023-03-02
“Despite its age, using it feels so familiar and natural that it's sometimes difficult to appreciate just how extraordinary, how different it was when it first appeared.” @dcbrock on the our life in Alto World https://spectrum.ieee.org/...
2023-03-02 View on X
IEEE Spectrum

A history of the Xerox Alto, a computer that debuted in the early spring of 1973 at PARC and presaged personal, interactive, networked, and graphical computing

David C. Brock / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @leapingrobot Tweets: Patrick McCray / @leapingrobot : “Despite its age, using it feels so familiar and natural that it's sometimes diffic...

2022-10-04
Interesting in light of @crmiller1's new book Chip Wars (my review appears tomorrow) which goes into the geopolitics of semiconductor mfg. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-10-04 View on X
New York Times

Sources: as soon as this week, the US is likely to limit access of several Chinese AI and supercomputing companies and labs to US tech, machinery, and software

New York Times :

2022-08-06
At some point, future historians will ponder how the US, Japan, etc. (gov't, military, and business alike) allowed the production of strategically critical resource to be concentrated on one small island off the coast of a potentially hostile power. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-08-06 View on X
New York Times

A look at Japan's efforts to counter chip supply chain disruptions, including investing in domestic production and seeking a coalition with the US and the EU

As it reckons with supply chain vulnerabilities, the country is spending billions to revitalize domestic production and seeking to form a coalition with “like-minded” nations.

2022-06-10
“Industrial policy” by another name https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-10 View on X
New York Times

America's Frontier Fund, a nonprofit group associated with Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and others, is lobbying the US government to invest $1B in US chip making

Ephrat Livni / New York Times :

2021-11-08
It's tulips all the way down... “entrepreneurs rubbed elbows with drag queens at a downtown party hosted by Playboy to promote the magazine's new “Rabbitars” NFT collection” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-11-08 View on X
New York Times

The NFT.NYC conference, now in its third year, was a coming-out party for the NFT community, attracting a record 5,000 attendees from artists to corporate suits

NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.

2021-11-07
It's tulips all the way down... “entrepreneurs rubbed elbows with drag queens at a downtown party hosted by Playboy to promote the magazine's new “Rabbitars” NFT collection” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-11-07 View on X
New York Times

The NFT.NYC conference, now in its third year, was a coming-out party for the NFT community, attracting a record 5,000 attendees from artists to corporate suits

NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.

2021-08-25
Maybe I wasn't paying attention in Catholic school, but I'm pretty sure the Holy Spirit doesn't give a fig about investment returns or stock portfolios. Jesus did say a thing or two about greed though... https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-08-25 View on X
New York Times

Profile of Cathie Wood, the CEO of Ark Invest, which manages $85B, whose aggressive bets on Tesla and others have earned her admiration from Reddit traders

2020-12-12
“The wireless network in Hawaii, which began operating in 1971, was called ALOHAnet, embracing the Hawaiian salutation for greeting or parting. It was a smaller, wireless version of the better known ARPANet...” n.b. @loriemerson https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-12 View on X
New York Times

Norman Abramson, the wireless network pioneer known for leading the development of Hawaii's ALOHAnet, died last week at 88

His ALOHAnet, designed a half-century ago in Hawaii, was a precursor to the technology used in today's smartphones and home WiFi networks.

2020-08-21
Me: “Siri, tell me about computer speech” Siri: “Dr. Syrdal developed a voice that sounded female — a much harder result to achieve, in part because so much of the previous engineering work had been done for male voices.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-08-21 View on X
New York Times

Ann Syrdal, AT&T researcher who helped give computers a female voice and laid the groundwork for digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, dies at 74

a much harder result to achieve, in part because so much of the previous engineering work had been done for male voices.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Daniel E. Slotnik / @dslotnik ...

2020-07-09
“Silicon Valley"'s ties to Dept of War, DoD, DARPA, are long, wide, and deep....and go back to the start of the 20th century. https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-09 View on X
NBC News

Report: US DOD and federal law enforcement have thousands of previously unreported contracts with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP, and Facebook

April Glaser / NBC News :

2019-12-18
Exam question...when and why did “tech” come to mean just Silicon Valley? https://twitter.com/...
2019-12-18 View on X
New York Times

The defining moments of tech in the 2010s, including the Arab Spring and unveiling of the iPad, as recalled by Zuckerberg, Snowden, Phil Schiller, and others

An oral history of the 2010s  —  When the decade began, tech meant promise — cars that could drive themselves, social networks that could take down dictators.