Microsoft rolled out a completely revamped version of its Bing search engine today that promises to provide better and more relevant results from a wider array of sources than Google. And without being nearly as annoying.
If you’re used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8.
Scientists from the institut polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier have developed a novel new product so gratuitous, it almost seems necessary: a silver-crystal coated wallpaper that can block neighbours from freeloading off your Wi-Fi network. The silver crystals are arranged in such a way that they are able to block certain wireless frequencies, not least of which is the same frequency as a WiFI router.
Remember the joys of sitting down with a giant picture book when you were younger? Of just flipping through the pages, staring at images, and not having to worry about all those words? Well that’s exactly what the Wordless Web experiment is all about.
We need to talk about my addiction to opening browser tabs. And leaving them open. Because maybe it’s your addiction, too. Right now I have 16 tabs open, of which four are actively being used. The remaining 12 are split between a) pages I need to reference for something I’m not working on right now and I don’t want to close them because then I’ll forget b) pages I think I’m about to need but in reality probably will not.
Have you noticed Meebo, that annoying bar on the bottom of some websites like Men’s Fitness and TVGuide.com? Of course you have. It spits up ads and nags you to share stuff on Facebook while you’re just trying to read. It’s a website add-on increasingly used by publishers who hate their readers.
This is Marc Andreessen. He’s not as rich as Bill Gates, not as inspirational as Steve Jobs, nor as well-known as Mark Zuckerberg — but that doesn’t make him any less important. Because, in his 20-year career, Andreessen has probably done more than any other person to change the way we communicate online.
Today, at the Global INET Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, the Internet Society announced the inaugural inductees into the new Internet Hall of Fame. It’s a lofty endeavour, and the first batch of inductees includes 33 undeniable geniuses. You have probably not heard of most of them.
