4 place 0 fresh

68 In 1991, researchers at Cambridge’s Computer Lab pointed a grey-scale camera at the department coffee pot and streamed the image to their desktops, because they were tired of walking three floors only to find the jug empty — and accidentally invented the webcam

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 2 place · today 08:41 EDT

In 1991, researchers at Cambridge’s Computer Lab pointed a grey-scale camera at the department coffee pot and streamed the image to their desktops, because they were tired of walking three floors only to find the jug empty — and accidentally invented the webcam

In 1991, Cambridge researchers wired a grey-scale camera to a coffee pot to avoid wasted trips down three flights of stairs. Two years later, they put it on the web — and invented an entire category of technology by accident.

To see detailed statistics for the news please log in »

Read the original

Add your comment
You must be logged in with Facebook to read and write comments.

A newsletter a day!

You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.

or register

LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!

News from the same source
Silicon Canals Silicon Canals
Silicon Valley
George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 1 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

Newark apartment complex bought for much less than prior value

An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more

0

🔮
15.06.2026 ♋︎ Today promises to be an interesting and emotionally rich day for Cancerians, despite some difficulties... Read more ›
Silicon Valley
George Avalos @ Silicon Valley 2 place · 02/07/2106 01:28 EDT

PG&E buys San Jose building to bolster South Bay operations

A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more

0

MacRumors
Mitchel Broussard @ MacRumors 1 place · today 09:52 EDT

Apple Watch Ultra 3 Drops to $699.99 Ahead of Prime Day

Early Prime Day deals continue to trickle in as Amazon this week has brought back the best price of the year so far on the Apple Watch Ultra 3, taking $99 off the Black Titanium model with the Black Ocean Band. It's been nearly two months since we last tracked notable discounts on the Apple Watch Ultra 3, and right now only one model is on sale at $99 off.... Read more

0 newcommer

Habr
kmoseenk (OTUS) @ Habr 1 place · today 09:49 EDT

[Перевод] В вашей HRIS живёт призрачная оргструктура. И она уже всем заправляет

AI-агенты уже отсеивают кандидатов, согласовывают отпуска и закрывают обращения сотрудников, хотя в HRIS их работа часто остаётся невидимой. Система хранит результат, но теряет автора решения, границы его полномочий и аудиторский след. Разбираемся, как возникает «призрачная оргструктура», почему она создаёт риски для HR и что стоит изменить в управлении агентами уже сейчас. Разобраться в рисках Read more

0 newcommer

GSMArena.com
GSMArena.com 1 place · today 09:49 EDT

Oppo Find X10 Pro's main specs leak

The Oppo Find X10 family is expected to be launching in September, and one of the members arriving at that point will be the Find X10 Pro. According to a new rumor, this device will be powered by the upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, which will be built using an advanced 2nm process. The phone will have a 6.78-inch LTPO OLED screen made by Tianma with "1.5K" resolution, narrow symmetrical... Read more

0 newcommer

Habr
INFERA (INFERA Security) @ Habr 2 place · today 09:48 EDT

ML Red Teaming для LLM: можно ли обойтись open source-инструментами?

В этой статье расскажем про основные классы атак и практическую структуру тестирования ИИ-моделей на уязвимости – от провоцирования галлюцинаций и многошаговых атак до проверки на утечку корпоративных данных. Отдельно объясняем, как правильно оценивать результаты сканирования ML Red Teaming, дадим рекомендации по выстраиванию защиты и безопасному использовании ИИ в корпоративной среде.ML Red Teaming (AI Red Teaming) – это специализированная форма наступательного тестирования, при которой команда имитирует д Read more

0 newcommer

Skift
Bailey Schulz @ Skift 1 place · today 09:45 EDT

Tripadvisor To Sell TheFork for $700 Million to Fuel Its Bet on Experiences

The sale gives Tripadvisor the cash to chase the $1 trillion experiences market through Viator. Read more

0 newcommer

SlashGear
SlashGear 1 place · today 09:45 EDT

The FBI Warns That Chinese Spies Are Using Job Boards Like LinkedIn For Serious Scams

The FBI issued a warning that Chinese operatives are trying to source American Intel from job boards. Here's who's affected and what to watch for. Read more

0 newcommer

Habr
cmyser @ Habr 3 place · today 09:44 EDT

Большой каталог «на почитать» про $mol, web и не только

Реактивность лучше MobX, виртуализация рендеринга «из коробки», типизированные стили на TypeScript, локально-первая модель данных через CRDT — эти идеи Дмитрий Карловский (nin-jin) разрабатывает на своём фреймворке $mol и в проекте $hyoo.За десять лет накопилось около сотни статей на Хабре и большая документация на mol.hyoo.ru, разбросанная по годам и площадкам — карта потерялась даже у тех, кто читал.Этот каталог — навигатор по корпусу. 80+ материалов разложены по 12 темам:с чего начать... Read more

0 newcommer

Business Insider
Jane Ridley @ Business Insider 1 place · today 09:43 EDT

I started caregiving to support myself through nursing school. A 96-year-old man became one of my best friends.

Student Jake Benoit works for a caregiving agency that matches those in need with students in the medical field. He loves his connection with seniors. Read more

0 newcommer

Habr
E-Chayka (Directum) @ Habr · today 09:43 EDT

Где прячутся расходы, или 5 скрытых издержек ручного управления проектами

Во многих компаниях ведение проектов без помощи специализированных инструментов воспринимается как привычный и недорогой способ организации работы. Казалось бы, все процессы выстроены: сроки продвигаются, бюджеты осваиваются, люди заняты делом. Но бизнес уже теряет деньги: за внешней простотой скрываются значительные издержки, которые влияют на репутацию организации. Читать далее Read more

0 newcommer

Tom's Hardware
Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 09:43 EDT

Cancelled Xbox 360 version of GoldenEye 007 gets recompiled for PC — ‘No emulator, the game runs as a real native executable,’ insists dev

GoldenEye Recomp v1.0 has been released, providing 'a native PC port of GoldenEye 007 built by statically recompiling the original game into C++' with no emulation involved. Read more

0 newcommer

ReadWrite
Suswati Basu @ ReadWrite 1 place · today 09:42 EDT

Playtech brings iPoker network to North America through FanDuel launch

Playtech has launched its iPoker network in North America for the first time through a new partnership with FanDuel, expanding… Continue reading Playtech brings iPoker network to North America through FanDuel launch Read more

0 fresh

Habr
slava_rumin @ Habr · today 09:35 EDT

Я ушёл из Газпрома, продал 500 тысяч сумок и половину отдаю Wildberries

Статья написана на основе интервью с Никитой Мащенко, селлером и автором Telegram-канала «Ушел из Газпрома на Wildberries» (52 тысячи подписчиков).Меня зовут Никита, и я ушел из Газпрома, чтобы продавать женские сумки. Звучит как заголовок инфоцыганского курса, но за этим пять лет в одной нише, больше 500 тысяч проданных сумок и очень много таблиц.На маркетплейсах все стали зарабатывать меньше: еще в 2024 году селлер в среднем оставлял себе 200 рублей с... Read more

0 fresh

Inc42 Media
Palak Sharma @ Inc42 Media 1 place · today 09:33 EDT

UPI In May: PhonePe, Google Pay See Marginal Decline In Market Share

PhonePe, Google Pay, and Paytm continued to lead the UPI charts in May, collectively processing more than 2,000 Cr transactions.… Read more

0 fresh

Habr
AlexZ71 (ЭРЕМЕКС) @ Habr · today 09:33 EDT

Библиотека EMX Controls для Avalonia UI — Обновление 1.4 — Июнь 2026

Друзья, приветствуем вас! Наступило долгожданное лето. И, пока все не ушли в отпуска, мы спешим с новым анонсом. Сегодня у нас вышла версия 1.4 библиотеки EMX Controls для Avalonia UI. Читать далее Read more

0 fresh

Habr
dkDer3k @ Habr · today 09:32 EDT

О вибрациях времени

Обсуждений необходимости изменения процессов разработки в последнее время становится всё больше. И эта необходимость, на мой взгляд, возникает не только в коммерческой разработке, но и в личных проектах. Ниже текст с эволюцией личных мыслей и подходов автора к этому вопросу. Читать далее Read more

0 fresh

CoinDesk
Shaurya Malwa @ CoinDesk 1 place · today 09:30 EDT

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong says bitcoin may have bottomed at $60,000

Armstrong said his instinct is that bitcoin has probably found its floor, pointing to the four-year cycle that has historically marked lows. Read more

0 fresh

EU-Startups
David Cendon Garcia @ EU-Startups 1 place · today 09:30 EDT

SpaceX went public – Europe’s SpaceTech founders and investors have thoughts

SpaceX’s record €64 billion ($75 billion) IPO has created a new reference point for European SpaceTech founders and investors, raising questions over whether the listing will deepen investor appetite for the sector or further concentrate attention around one US category leader. Reuters reports that the company priced its IPO at $135 per share, valuing the ... Read more

0 fresh

The most popular news from the same source for the last week
Silicon Canals Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals 2 place · 06/09/2026 07:11 EDT

In 1981, two researchers proposed that burnout is not simple tiredness but three separate collapses

In 1981, two psychologists published a short paper in the Journal of Organizational Behavior that quietly influences how a lot of us talk about being worn down by work. Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson introduced something they called the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a questionnaire, and four decades later it is still one of the ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals 2 place · 06/09/2026 10:36 EDT

Gallup has found only about one in five workers worldwide feel engaged on the job, but the number that should worry economies is even bigger

A quick note: I am not an economist, a psychologist, or an organizational scientist. This is me reading Gallup’s data and thinking out loud about it. The figures here are estimates and population-level patterns, not a diagnosis of your job or your team, and Gallup’s own causal claims are its framing of correlational findings, not ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/10/2026 09:00 EDT

MIT Media Lab and OpenAI tracked nearly 1,000 ChatGPT users for four weeks, but the early finding cut against the comfort the chatbot promised — heavier daily use was tied to more loneliness and emotional dependence

Picture someone at the end of a long day. The apartment is quiet. They open ChatGPT, not to draft an email or debug a script, but to say something close to: here is how I am feeling, tell me I am not crazy. The reply comes back warm and patient, with no delay or sigh ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/11/2026 01:25 EDT

Sea otters keep a favourite rock tucked in a loose pouch of skin under each forearm, carry it between dives, and use it as a personal anvil to crack open shellfish, making them one of the few animals known to keep and reuse a single tool

Sea otters carry a favored rock in a loose pouch of skin beneath each forearm, balance it on their chests like a personal anvil, and reuse the same stone across dives — a tool-keeping behavior almost unheard of outside great apes and a few birds. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/11/2026 03:14 EDT

When Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific in 1969, the recovered astronauts were sealed in a quarantine trailer for weeks because nobody could rule out lunar microbes, while around their capsule the ocean teemed with creatures far stranger than anything feared from the Moon

In July 1969, Apollo 11's crew was sealed in an Airstream trailer for 21 days while NASA tested moon rocks for life that wasn't there — meanwhile, the ocean beneath their splashdown site held vampire squid, 40-meter siphonophores, and single-celled organisms the size of dinner plates. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/11/2026 03:49 EDT

Turritopsis dohrnii, a Mediterranean jellyfish no larger than a fingernail, can reverse its own life cycle when injured or starving — dissolving its adult body back into an immature polyp and starting over, a biological rewind that in theory has no limit. Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/11/2026 13:30 EDT

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s most capable public AI model, and will hand your conversation to a weaker model the moment it detects a biology or chemistry question — Anthropic admits the net is overly broad and plans to narrow it

On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model in its Mythos class — a family the company had previously declined to release at all, citing the models’ enhanced ability to identify and exploit software vulnerabilities. Fable 5 leads nearly all published benchmarks, performs at a materially higher level than Anthropic’s previous ... Read more Read more

0

Silicon Canals
Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/12/2026 02:28 EDT

Inside the Financial Times investigation that took five years and nearly destroyed the reporter who exposed Wirecard

Dan McCrum spent the better part of five years being followed, hacked, smeared as a market manipulator, and threatened with criminal prosecution by the German state — for being right. Read more

0

Most popular sources

  • You see 592 news out of 592.
  • Sources 61 out of 61.
Ars Technica 0%
Droid Life 0%
Startup News 0%
ScienceDaily 0%
BetaKit 0%
View sources »

LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!

15.06.2026 10:06
Last update: 10:00 EDT.
News rating updated: 17:04.

What is Times42?

Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.


Times42 © 2026