by bill@designableweb.com | Nov 5, 2013 | Space, Tech History, Tech News
Yesterday’s Google Doodle honored what would have been the 84th birthday of Shakuntala Devi, an Indian mathematician and writer who has been dubbed “The Human Calculator”. It is because of great minds like Ms. Devi’s that India could...
by bill@designableweb.com | Sep 17, 2013 | Audio, Education, Smart Phones, Tech History, Tech News, Uncategorized
Historic event! Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is the first human object to leave the solar system and reach interstellar space — over 11 billion miles from our sun. State of the art when it was launched, Voyager 1 has 69.63 kilobytes of memory. For comparison, an...