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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, father of LCDs, passes away

Filed under: Displays

We’ll admit, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes didn’t exactly get the ongoing credit he deserved for spearheading discoveries that gave us the liquid crystal display, and it’s with regret that we convey the news that he has indeed passed away at 74. Pierre-Gilles was born in Paris where he graduated from the elite Ecole Normale Superieure school after working in “neutron scattering and magnetism before moving to the realm of supraconductors and later to liquid crystals.” He went on to take home the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991, and was even dubbed the “Isaac Newton of our time” by some of the judges. Thankfully, much of his brilliance can still be enjoyed via his 1974 book “The Physics of Liquid Crystals,” and while we’re sure the context is way over our heads, we can certainly appreciate the end results of his unwearying work.

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Original post by Darren Murph

Microsoft Clippy, RIP: 1997 - 2007

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Not too long after MobileESPN breathed new life, now we’ve got the unfortunate duty of informing the world that Microsoft ~~finally axed the most annoying aspect of Office~~ has decided to leave “Clippy” behind in Office 2007. We suspected something was brewing when the iconic figure started donning a 3D skirt in Japan, but a brief interview with Office’s group program manager revealed that the clip is indeed dead. While it had been fading for awhile due to an apparent lack of mass fanfare, and was even turned off by default in Office 2003, it seems that Clippy fans will be forced to stick with now-antiquated versions of the Office suite in order to keep their darling on screen. But don’t fret too much, as the countdown until someone crafts a freeware app re-instilling a Clippy rendition into Office begins… now.