Learning the occupations of your ancestors is a very important aspect of learning more about those relatives. Here are a few suggestions.
Still remember the good ol' days with joysticks and bulky monitors? 1TB hard disks may now be a common sight, but did you know that people used to be
The Innovators, Walter Isaacson's new book, tells the stories of the people who created modern computers. Women, who are now a minority in computer science, played an outsize role in that history.
New palm-sized, MiniION sequencer, costing around $1,000, designed to analyse DNA to help track disease outbreaks, check food and offer ‘the democratisation of sequencing’
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CSIRAC, designed and built by CSIR scientists, was the first stored-memory electronic computer in Australia. In 1947 Maston Beard and Trevor Pearcey (a British radar scientist who had emigrated to Australia after World War II) led a research group at the CSIR (after 1949 called CSIRO) Radiophysics Laboratory which designed and built CSIR Mk1, the world's fourth stored-memory electronic computer. ...
To the surprise and excitement of researchers, a ninth century Anglo-Saxon treatment for eye infections has been used successfully to kill tenacious bacteria cultures. The ancient remedy consisting of onion, garlic, cow bile and wine might be an effective weapon against modern antibiotic-resistant superbugs such as MRSA.
Samsung has started manufacturing a PCIe (M.2) SSD that pulls off a rare trick -- it'll be the fastest drive your laptop has ever seen, while consuming...
Algorithms increasingly work together to help automate our digital lives—but not every result is perfect, positive or even predicted by their creators.
Additional information about the father of the computer.
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Social media may be the poster child of the 21st century, but the ideas behind LinkedIn and Facebook go back a long, long way. Dutch PhD scholar Sophie Reinders is currently exploring how personal books from many centuries ago known as alba amicorum - Latin for “friend books” - functioned as a so
Researchers from La Trobe University in Melbourne analysed material discovered during an excavation at Warratyi rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Vintage wind-up movie camera
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From our series of Innovation Comics!. “How a Single Prediction Changed the Future of Computing” is published by Intel in Backchannel.
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“A poor craftsperson blames their tools.” If you’ve heard some version of this phrase, you might feel guilty when looking for writing tools. But even…
The United States is mind-boggling. Right?!
