What is RCS and why is it the imposed future of all messengers, including iMessage?
The history of messaging protocols can be boring, sometimes fascinating, but money and competition will sooner or later force everyone to submit to market standards.
History of the DotA game: from Warcraft 3 to Valve
DotA collects the largest budgets in the industry at cyber championships and has captivated the minds of millions of gamers. How did this happen? We tell in our material about the history of the creation of DotA
Galvin SCR-536: the harsh ancestor of the mobile phone
Providing reliable communications to the US Army in World War II, engineers at Galvin Manufacturing (the future Motorola) created a compact walkie-talkie. The development of mobile communications came from it.
Sony Walkman: Iconic Portability
The first compact audio players appeared 35 years ago. But despite all the efforts of competitors who produced similar devices, it was Sony’s equipment that became the very basis of the portable audio device industry. Why are the devices of the Japanese company so popular with users?
Russian roulette: the amazing history and further fate of the creator of Chatroulette
A new “disease” that has captured millions of Internet users is anonymous video chat with strangers Chatroulette. And it was an ordinary Moscow schoolboy Andrei Ternovsky who came up with this unique kind of fun, which is predicted to take place on Facebook and Twitter.
From the last century: the top 20 greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century
How many things can we not imagine a comfortable existence without today? It would seem, without hundreds. Although if you combine them into general categories, it turns out that there are no more than 20 main ones. Over the course of the twentieth century, they have evolved greatly – and not without the help of high technology
Google history. Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Their fortune has exceeded $16 million, their company is the most respectable employer in the world, and the brand they created is one of the hundred most expensive brands. Yes, in ten years Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the creators of Google, turned from ordinary American students into Internet search gurus, and the company itself broke all records for the speed of business development
Transistor: 60 years of great achievements of a small element
The invention of the transistor 60 years ago was a major factor in driving many innovations and technological developments. It was the transistor – a tiny device, an element of a microcircuit that acts like a miniature switch and thereby allows the implementation of information processing algorithms – that ensured the phenomenal triumph of computers. What is the secret of success?
5 reasons to buy old used flagship smartphones instead of new
If you are a fan of buying budget but new smartphones from a showroom, so to speak, then perhaps next year you will switch to used flagships. And that’s why
Highlights of Google I/O 2024: Gemini AI will be integrated into all Google services
artificial intelligence Google world eventsGemini AI will be tightly integrated into a wide range of Google applications, such as Google Photos, Google Camera, Gmail, Search and others.
You can already pre-order the POCO F6 Pro smartphone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on Aliexpress
Poco smartphoneXiaomi will hold a global announcement of POCO F6 smartphones on May 23. The lineup includes two models, but the POCO F6 Pro version will be sold with traditional bonuses and discounts after the launch.