The Complete History of Computers [INFOGRAPHIC]
A machine called ‘Collosus’ was the first real computer. Designed to help codebreakers in WWII, it was one huge motherclunker. And it didn’t even have ‘snake’.
TIME Magazine Makes Fat Joke On The Cover, Mocking New Jersey Governor
‘Time’ is known for their world-class journalism, hard hitting analysis and classy magazine covers. Never one to take cheap shots at public figures, the world was shocked when they decided to make a fat joke on their most recent cover.
TIME Magazine Releases Top 100 List [PICS]
TIME magazine is celebrating its tenth year of the TIME Top 100 List. This year, to do something a little special, they’re presenting seven cover portraits of the TIME 100 honourees who, “Reflect the breadth and depth of our list, each one profiled inside – as in our tradition – by an equally luminary voice.”
Everything You Need To Know About 2012 In Four Minutes [VIDEO]
We said goodbye to 2012 earlier this week, and what an exciting year it was! From Barack Obama’s election victory, to the antics of Honey Boo Boo – we experienced it all!
Instagram’s Top 10 Photos Of 2012 [GALLERY]
Photo-sharing website Instagram has released a photo compilation of some of their top 10 biggest events of 2012. It was selected from all the images uploaded this year by their more than 100 million users.
TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions Of The Year Are…
TIME Tech announced their Best Inventions of 2012 last week. The list, consisting of 25 items, contains everything from body armor for women, a civilisation starter kit, a motion-activated screwdriver, and a home HIV test kit.
Leap Second Scheduled for June 30, 2012
Attention time geeks: a leap second has been scheduled for June 30, 2012. The month will be one second longer, to re-synchronize Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is based on an atomic clock, and Universal Time (UT) which is based on the earth’s rotation. Basically it’s a cool moment where your clock will legitimately read 23:59:60.
Oscar Pistorius Makes TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World List
Oscar Pistorius has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2012. He is the only South African on the list. See who he shares it with, and what the magazine had to say about him, after the jump.
Pentagon Scientists Created A “Time Cloak” To Make Events Disappear
Five days into 2012 and we’ve already got fancy new technology. A team from Cornell University have developed a light-distortion device that can mask events as if they hadn’t happened; they managed to use light distortion to hide an event for 40 picoseconds. Which, granted, is 40 trillionths of a second, but the research is groundbreaking in the extreme.