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Why are hyperlinks blue?
9 min read · Aug 26th · The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
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EDSAC 1951
Apr 6th · The work flow of writing an EDSAC computer programme, generating the programme paper tape, and the execution of the program are presented with narration. If...
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When Exponential Progress Becomes Reality — Medium
8 min read · From 2015 · Ray Kurzweil’s 110 year version of Moore’s Law some perfectly reasonable mind-blowing predictions for the future ahead.
MIT Technology Review
What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
5 min read · Feb 26th · For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact.
Quanta Magazine
How Claude Shannon Invented the Future
5 min read · 2020-12-22 · Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.
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Alan Turing's lost radio broadcast rerecorded
From 2018 · On the 15th of May 1951 the BBC broadcasted a short lecture on the radio by the mathematician Alan Turing. His lecture was titled “Can Digital Computers Thin...
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#67 Computación Cuántica (Quantum Computing)
~14 min read · Jan 10th · En la edición de hoy trataremos de entender un poco mejor las bases de la tecnología, su potencial, limitaciones, aplicaciones y estado del arte actual.
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10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages • Hillel Wayne
~13 min read · 2020-03-26 · The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL,…
The New Yorker
Christoph Niemann’s “Evolution”
2 min read · From 2019 · The artist describes the inspiration behind his cover for this year’s Technology Issue.
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Europe gets ready for exascale
4 min read · 2020-01-24 · Bigger data, faster machines--what will the 2020s hold?
Guardian Tech
Dark Territory review – how WarGames and Reagan shaped US cyberwar battle
4 min read · 2020-01-09 · Slate columnist Fred Kaplan’s new book details – exhaustingly as well as exhaustively – the alarms and innovations that made mass surveillance
MIT Technology Review
Quantum supremacy from Google? Not so fast, says IBM
2 min read · 2019-10-22 · The rival maker of quantum computers is disputing the much-vaunted claim that Google has hit a new milestone.
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TELESINCRO, SECOINSA, FUJITSU, INFORMÁTICA
9 min read · 2019-10-08 · telesincro: su historia En 1966 nacía Factor-P, considerado el primer ordenador fabricado en España. Estaba inspirado en una máquina de Philips para hacer facturas que había entusiasmado a Joan Majó,…
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Les dones dels algorismes
~11 min read · 2019-10-07 · Són elles i les hem desxifrat: les primeres teixidores de programari informàtic. Als 60, a Catalunya, es fabriquen els primers ordinadors. Funcionaven amb plaques de fils de coure tramats per dones.…
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CaixaBank realiza el primer proyecto para aplicar la computación cuántica
3 min read · From 2019 · Se convierte en pionera en España en finalizar pruebas reales para adaptar un algoritmo para evaluar el riesgo en carteras hipotecarias y bonos del Tesoro
