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The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict"
I became fascinated with guilds when I moved to Germany. Being an avid reader of all medieval history I could get my hands on, I was well aware of the Hansa (slang for Hanseatic) League’s ris…
Discover how the fall of Constantinople in 1453 ended the Byzantine Empire and transformed the great city into Ottoman Istanbul.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take...
The election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980 saw the return of heightened Cold War tensions after a period of détente during the previous decade. The zenith of this escalation arguably came in 1983, when a NATO training exercise almost prompted nuclear war. Operation RYANAt a secret meeting of top Soviet…
[18 Dec 2021] Updated Debian 11: 11.2 released [17 Nov 2021] Statement on Daniel Pocock [09 Oct 2021] Updated Debian 11: 11.1 released [09 Oct 2021] Updated Debian 10: 10.11 released [28 Aug 2021] DebConf21 online closes [15 Aug 2021] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Bullseye — a complete Linux solution for your school [14 Aug…
The Sony Walkman is now iconic of the 1980s, eliciting nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of owning music, rather than renting it.
Repairing a dead power supply and replacing the NVRAM in a vintage UNIX workstation.
YouTube is a platform and a community which live off of reuploads. With the privating of old unlisted videos, let's re-examine the relationship between YouTube and reuploading.
My POPL 2011 “Flash Fill” paper was the most important turning point in my research career. I went from searching for the hardest problem I can solve to searching for the simplest problem that will…
DHL was guaranteed timely delivery of critical business documents by giving away airplane tickets. That made it was a pioneer in the sharing economy.
UpOut, profesyonel ses sistemleri, LED ekran teknolojileri, konferans ve konser çözümleri ile dış cephe aydınlatma projelerinde global standartlarda hizmet sunar
2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the hard drive. Let's look back at how the tech has changed over the years.
A stopwatch and a race against time.
The GDP was exclusively object oriented - normal linear memory access wasn't allowed, and there was hardware support for data hiding, methods, inheritance, late binding, and access protection, and it was promoted as being ideal for the Ada programming language. To enforce this, permission and type checks for every…
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google.org Blog ) It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and histo...
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
Explore how a decade of open source experiments in psychovisual modeling and compression led to JPEG XL, the future of image coding.
