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Burrell Smith liked to do intensive design work over the Christmas break, so the very first prototype of the very first Macintosh sprung to life early in the first month of the new decade, in January 1980. It wasn’t really … Read more

One of my favorite courses during my computer science bachelor was the operating systems course. I like learning theory so I soaked up all the concepts taught during the course, but I can’t recall that we had any sort of … Read more

Technology 14:12, 06-Jan-2024 By Zheng Yibing

Simon Prades ICELAND is one of the most boring countries in the world. That is meant as a compliment, not an insult. The island nation is dotted with thousands of boreholes drilled deep into the rock to extract geothermal energy. … Read more

We are bringing JPEG-XL to our customers before any other cloud service. Here is story on how we did it and why. We all know JPEG is king of all image formats. Even after advent of WebP and AVIF, JPEG … Read more

Google is one of the biggest tech companies in existence, but its empire is built on one little white search bar, and the US Justice Department has just launched what might be one of the biggest challenges it’s ever faced. … Read more

Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have … Read more

The final elements of the FASER (Forward Search Experiment) detector are installed in the TI12 tunnel of the LHC. It is located along the beam collision axis, 480 m from the ATLAS interaction point, in an unused service tunnel that … Read more