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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

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Instead, they were encoded in the grooves of a phonograph record bound inside the magazine. Due to their low cost, thin form factor, and pliability, flexi discs became the medium of choice for magazine publishers who wished to supplement articles with audio content. Recordings were not limited to musical performances.

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Belching Volcano and Flowing Lava Dent Tourism in Icelandic Region

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The Blue Lagoon resort in the south of Iceland is a scenic network of steaming azure pools surrounded by dark rocks, where tourists dip in the geothermal water, have spa treatments and enjoy what the resort advertises as “a universe of radiant well-being.” A spouting volcano doesn’t sound very inviting,” he said.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. In addition, she is a visiting scholar at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University , in Greensboro. The issue with a money-transfer protocol is that it needs to be fast and low-cost. For her development of geeRemit, Inc.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees. Employer: Mimik.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. Artwick was right. New versions landed on best-seller charts.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., Menus list choices of action.

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