A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal(spectrum.ieee.org)

313 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 87 comments

100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born(spectrum.ieee.org)

296 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 149 comments

Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century(spectrum.ieee.org)

129 points by cyberlimerence 2 years ago | 25 comments

Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon(spectrum.ieee.org)

138 points by jruohonen 3 months ago | 103 comments

A Swiss firm’s software mines the world’s knowledge for patent opportunities(spectrum.ieee.org)

10 points by geox 2 years ago | 5 comments

Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs(spectrum.ieee.org)

39 points by jnord 1 year ago | 1 comments

Nvidia's Risky Business(stratechery.com)

325 points by jonbaer 2 months ago | 157 comments

Stratechery article by Ben Thompson analyzing Nvidia's business risks, opening with a historical anecdote about financier Jay Cooke.

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock(colo.to)

1030 points by Eric_Gullichsen 28 days ago | 430 comments

Personal essay by Eric Gullichsen, an early NVIDIA technical advisor, explaining how 1993 stock options he was granted may now be worth about a billion dollars.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies(blog.adafruit.com)

433 points by Santosh83 3 years ago | 239 comments

An Adafruit blog post examining how some open-source hardware companies have become less open over time.

Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years(spectrum.ieee.org)

365 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 354 comments

IEEE Spectrum article on Ethernet's 50-year history and its status as the worldwide standard LAN technology, recognized as an IEEE Milestone.

Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC(cointelegraph.com)

422 points by talboren 2 years ago | 743 comments

Cointelegraph news article reporting that the SEC has officially approved several spot Bitcoin ETFs after a false start on Jan. 9.