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How Embroidery, Piano, and French Lessons Made the First Computer Programmer
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAda Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century...
Eclipsed genius: Despite modest progress, sexism and racism persist in science
Salon via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPortraits of Ada Lovelace, Eunice Foote, Nettie Stevens, Alice Augusta Ball and Lise Meitner Photo...
Firm Estimates a 2nm Chip Now Costs $725 Million to Design
Tom's Hardware via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoA computer chip. Chip design costs began to skyrocket with the introduction of FinFET transistors...
How to recruit Starfield's strangest companion
PC Gamer via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoOperation Starseed quest If you don't fancy exploring Starfield solo, you'll quickly get access to a few companions via the game's main quest, but there...
Nvidia Continues To Tease GeForce RTX 40-Series GPU Announcement
Tom's Hardware via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNvidia has released two more teasers related to its GeForce Beyond campaign, showcasing concrete...
The BASIC programming language turns 60 — Dartmouth BASIC started it all in 1964
Tom's Hardware via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA vintage General Electric PC ad from BASIC's birth era, the 60s. This ad is for the cut-down GE-210...
What’s in a name? Nov. 20 is Name Your PC Day
WHTM via Yahoo News· 6 months ago(WHTM) — Name Your PC Day is one of those mystery occasions. We celebrate it every Nov. 20, and it’s been going on for years, but so far the origin point...
MIT gives AI the power to 'reason like humans' by creating hybrid architecture
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoMIT scientists devise three abstraction libraries that can be combined with AI systems to improve...
Literary Links: Inventors and Inventions
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn December 13, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a major breakthrough in cold fusion technology. I don’t pretend to understand all the details,...
22 Famous Scientists Who Changed How We View the World (and the Universe)
Biography via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGalileo, Sigmund Freud, George Washington Carver, and Rosalind Franklin are among the famous...