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BBC News[^]:

Many years ago, long before the birth of the web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe. What the TGV was to train travel, the Pompidou Centre to art, and the Ariane project to rocketry, in the early 1980s the Minitel was to the world of telecommunications. Thanks to this wondrous beige monitor attached to the telephone, while the rest of us were being put on hold by the bank manager or queueing for tickets at the station, the French were already shopping and travelling "online".

Daniel Lemire[^]:

People expect that, as you grow older, you give up practical jobs such as programming for more noble tasks such as managing a team and acquiring funding. As a sign that I favor horizontal collaboration, I still program even though I am old. This is unusual.

Elaine Wherry[^]:

In late 2009, I created an online persona named Pete London – a self-described JavaScript ninja – to help attract and hire the best JavaScript recruiters. While I never hired a recruiter from the experiment, I learned a ton about how to compete in today’s Silicon Valley talent war. Based upon two years of non-scientific research, here’s what you should know...

Dinahmoe[^]:

ToneCraft lets you build music in 3D. The Y-axis represents the pitch of the tone, the X-axis represents the time and the different colors represent different instruments. The Z-axis makes it possible to layer sounds and to create whatever visual structures you like. (Note that it may only work in recent releases of Chrome.)

mark shroyer, dot com[^]:

I ran into a really fun bug at work yesterday, where I discovered that my C program was branching down logically inconsistent code paths. After drinking another cup of coffee and firing up GDB I realized that somehow, a boolean variable in my code was simultaneously testing as both true and not true.

ExtremeTech[^]:

Google is getting ready to roll out its very first Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) device, the Nexus 7 tablet, and while that’s exciting news, it’s also sobering for scores of Android users still waiting to unwrap Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.x). The numbers in Google’s own Dashboard for developers tell the story in disappointing detail, but they don’t pinpoint the problem.

PCWorld[^]:

In the wake of the Flashback botnet which targeted Mac computers, Apple has removed a statement from its messages on its website that Mac operating system X (OS X) isn't susceptible to viruses.

The Verge[^]:

As expected, Google unveiled its own 7-inch tablet today at the start of the company's I/O conference. Asus is helping Google build its tablet, co-branded once it's available in mid-July. Google's Nexus 7 is clearly going head-to-head with other low-cost Android tablets, including Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet — but how do they compare?

TIME[^]:

University of Utah engineering student and part-time amusement-park arcade manager Nolan Bushnell thought that videogames could be a big deal. “The only question,” he remembers, “was how to bring them to everyone, not just those of us who could sneak into a computer lab late at night.” In 1971, Bushnell and partner Ted Dabney managed to turn Spacewar! into the first mass-produced video arcade game, Computer Space.

Business Insider[^]:

Five years ago this week, Apple launched the iPhone. It seems safe to safe that never in history has a single product been so astoundingly successful so fast and had such a radical impact on the world. Here are a few highlights...

Creative Bloq[^]:

The sci-fi genre has given us some of the most iconic and daring designs in Hollywood history. We discuss the very best designs in sci-fi movies throughout the ages, with a host of influential designers giving us their thoughts on our picks.