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BBC Micro Bit computer
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BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given to about one million UK-based children in October. The device - which features a programmable array of red LED lights - includes two buttons and a built-in mot...
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Apple I Computer
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The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. Read more
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Earth and sky - we live where they converge. Exploring and understanding both is vitally important to our future. And thanks to the Internet, it can be easy and enjoyable. A newly revised and released Internet feature called Google Earth provides virtual tours and explorations of not just our plan...
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Enigma machine
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Rare German Enigma expected 'to fetch £60,000' at auction A rare German Enigma enciphering machine is expected to fetch up to £60,000 in an auction on Wednesday. Read more
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EDSAC computer
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Recreating a pioneering 1940s computer The recreation of the pioneering EDSAC computer has begun, with the manufacture of parts of its chassis starting in Cambridge. EDSAC was designed by Professor Maurice Wilkes and first ran software in 1949, and has been credited with assisting many importan...
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Colossus
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Testimonials from the last living engineers who worked on the wartime code-cracking machine Colossus have been gathered for a film celebrating their work. The codes cracked by the device helped ensure the success of the Normandy invasion that led to the Allied victory in World War II. Colossus is r...
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20 years ago on July 23rd the Commodore Amiga was unveiled at the Lincoln Centre in New York. For the launch Commodore had hired Andy Warhol & Debbie Harry (Blondie) to demonstrate the Amiga's graphics capabilities.
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IBM Deep Blue
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The infamous Sixth game of the Deep Blue - Kasparov rematch, played in New York City on May 11, 1997 and starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT, was the last chess game in the rematch of 1997 of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. (Deep Blue was further strengthened from the previous year's match with Kasparov and was un...
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Quantum computer
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Scientists closer to build a practical quantum computer Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), US, have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions), thus raising prospects for building a practi...
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insbots
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Little larger than a thumbnail, the cubic insect-like robots or 'insbots' are technological marvels. Developed under the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) initiative of the IST programme as the project Leurre, the insbots are fitted with two motors, wheels, a recha...
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With the Web now into its second decade, leading lights in the Web world want to turn it from a phenomenon into a science.
Representatives from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in the U.K. on Thursday announced the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI...
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Gordon Supercomputer
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SDSC's Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: rapidly processin...
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Roadrunner supercomputer
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'Petaflop' supercomputer is decommissioned A US supercomputer called Roadrunner has been switched off by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The machine was the first to operate at "petaflop pace" - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second - when it laun...
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Macintosh 128K
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The Macintosh 128K, released as the "Apple Macintosh", is the original Apple Macintosh personal computer. Its beige case contained a 9 in (23 cm) monitor and came with a keyboard and mouse. Apple Inc.'s then-chairman Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh on January 24, 1984. Rea...
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