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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

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“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. million machine.

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Volunteers Scramble to Preserve Ukraine’s Digital Culture

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It’s the websites and videos and images stored by museums, dance companies, libraries, music collections, and a whole host of arts and other organizations that represent a country’s social heritage. Dombrowski, who is an academic technology specialist at Stanford University , thought that even a week was too long to wait.

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How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn

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But from the learner’s perspective, it simply feels as though the green owl is getting better and better at personalizing lessons. We see our work at Duolingo as furthering the company’s overall mission to “develop the best education in the world and make it universally available.” In 2020, we launched the first version of Birdbrain.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. MB of data.

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The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game

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arguably began with a 1982 paper by the computer scientist David Chaum , but it reached mainstream attention with the success of Bitcoin , a cryptocurrency created by the anonymous person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto. dozens of new blockchain games based on the cryptocurrency through late 2017 and 2018.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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Traveling and having a personal connection to Prisms VR customers,” she says, “has been really valuable in designing and updating the modules.” For students who want to practice their math skills at home, a monthly subscription of $24 to Prisms Math is available from the Meta Quest store. million students in the system’s 1,800 schools.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Construction on the four-story building, nicknamed the spaceship , was completed in 2017. Its physical design, the minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, and the easy-access buttons made it successful, and the iTunes store made it easier for people to discover and buy music and organize it into personal playlists.

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