Google parent company Alphabet’s internet-beaming Project Loon balloons have taken on their first commercial task. The high-flying communications aircraft are now providing thousands of Kenyans with internet access.
Kennedy Mitchum, a recent college graduate from Missouri, believes that the dictionary’s current first definition of racism is too simple and too often employed to dismiss concerns and avoid accountability.
Defined as “a pronoun of choice for someone who doesn’t identify as either male or female,” searches for the definition of the non-binary pronoun rose by 313% in the last year.
The original iPhone was described as “revolutionary” and a “game-changer” for the mobile phone industry.
Using a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world’s first commercial cell phone, Cooper placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey.
The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet.
ARPANET was an early packet-switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.
Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 72,000 people. It is one of five languages descended from Old West Norse spoken in the Middle Ages.
The Oxford English Dictionary is now the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.
In an emergency, Morse code can be sent by improvised methods that can be easily “keyed” on and off, making it one of the simplest and most versatile methods of telecommunication.
