An exhibition at the New York Historical Society chronicles the golden age of computer innovation in New York.
“Before the 1980s, New York was the physical, social, and economic center for technology,” says Stephen Edidin, curator of Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York, an exhibition at the New York Historical Society, which opens November 13. “The basic message is, don’t forget your past because the history of computing didn’t start with Steve Jobs.”
Google seems to have plans for Android that involve getting hardware ready for virtual reality and augmented reality.
New reports indicate that Google is actively intervening in the fate of hardware for future Android phones, and even considering making their own processors. In a pair of paywalled reports, The Information‘s Amir Efrati claims Google is looking for partners to develop chips based on the company’s designs, and that Google is approaching hardware makers with a detailed laundry list of hardware upgrades related to camera, sensor, and memory functionality.
In a Medium post, Roetter apologized for his comments about diversity at Twitter, which were disclosed this week by a former employee.
Earlier this week, a former Twitter employee took to Medium to disclose that he left his job because he felt diversity was not being made a priority at the company. As Twitter’s sole black engineer in a leadership role, Leslie Miley wrote that he wondered “how and why a company whose product has been used as an agent of revolutionary social change did not reflect the diversity of thought, conversation, and people in its ranks.”
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