In 1901, divers working an ancient shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera recovered statues, ceramics, glass and a badly corroded mass of bronze. The wreck had carried valuable cargo across the Mediterranean during the final centuri...
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In the old medina of Fez, behind carved doors and walls that have witnessed more than a millennium of Moroccan history, books have survived dynasties, wars, political upheavals and the arriv...
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Suppose engineers invent a computer chip that performs the same calculation using half as much electricity. The obvious conclusion is that electricity consumption should fall. Now suppose th...
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Technology is supposed to age quickly. Phones become obsolete, startups disappear, frameworks fall out of fashion and yesterday's revolutionary software becomes tomorrow's migration problem....
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On September 9, 1947, somebody working with one of the most advanced calculating machines in the United States opened its hardware and found an unusually literal explanation for a malfunctio...
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In the remote town of Longyearbyen, Norway, it's famously illegal to die due to permafrost preserving bodies. But did you know there's a U.S. town with a similar law? Welcome to Barrow, Ala...
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In 1993, the U.S. government proposed a small hardware chip called the Clipper Chip, meant to be embedded in phones and computers. The goal? Allow federal agencies to access encrypted commun...
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In one of the darkest and most bizarre moments in church history, Pope Stephen VI staged a trial — not of a living man, but of a rotting corpse. The accused? His predecessor, Pope Formosu...
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📱 Can Old Phones Really Stay Off the Grid? Let’s Investigate Before the era of facial recognition and GPS in your pocket, there was the humble Nokia 3310. No internet, no apps, no biomet...
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Apollo Guidance Computer vs. Modern Computers: What’s the Real Difference? In 1969, NASA sent astronauts to the Moon using a spacecraft controlled by a computer with less power than today...
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