Aspiring software engineers Kevin Yook and Becky Chen are hunched over a computer screen, fervently discussing lines of code indecipherable to the average person. The pair of twenty-somethings are students at the Holberton School in…
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Rare Apple computer worth Sh19mn dumped for recycling
A Silicon Valley recycling company on Monday was searching for a woman who dropped off a rare Apple computer subsequently snapped up by a collector for $200,000 (Sh19 million). The woman didn’t leave her name…
Online security: The 25 Worst Passwords of 2014
SplashData, a publisher of online password management solutions, has published its Top 25 Worst Passwords ranking for 2014. The list reveals the most used and most predictable combinations of characters on the web. Since the…
Apple computer sells for record Sh80 million in NY
One of the first Apple computers ever built has sold in New York for $905,000, leading Bonhams auction house to declare it the world’s most expensive computer relic. The Apple-1 computer, built by hand in…
Google is working on a chip that lets machines think like humans
Google said it is working on a super-fast “quantum” computer chip as part of a vision to one day have machines think like humans. The Internet titan on Tuesday added renowned researcher John Martinis and…
Computer mouse inventor dies at 88
Douglas Engelbart, who revolutionized computing by inventing the mouse, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 88, the institute bearing his name said Wednesday. Born in Oregon, Engelbart studied electrical engineering and computer…
First Apple computer heads to Sotheby’s auction
There’s no screen, it was built in 1976, and the clunky design does not exactly recall today’s iPads, but the first Apple computer is expected to fetch up to $180,000 in New York. Sotheby’s in…