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Play The Nimatron, The World’s First Video Game Invented in 1930s New York
At the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair, the 40 million visitors stepped into ‘The World of Tomorrow’. One highlight entertaining our future selves was the Nimatron, the world’s first video game. The Nimatron Although not everyone at the expo was playing games, with many preferring to gaze at the acres of human flesh on …
Mapping the Migration of the World’s Millionaires
The Richest People in the World in 2023 After witnessing record gains in wealth, ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) lost a combined $10 trillion last year. A lagging stock market dented these fortunes against high interest rates, energy shocks, and economic uncertainty. But some of the world’s billionaires have flourished in this environment, posting sky-high …
The World’s Smallest Hash Table
2023-03-04 This December I once again did the Advent of Code, in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For simplicity we’re only going …
World’s largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium bursts in Berlin
BERLIN, Dec 16 (Reuters) – An aquarium in Berlin that was home to around 1,500 exotic fish burst early on Friday, spilling 1 million litres (264,172 gallons) of water and debris onto a major road in the busy Mitte district, emergency services said. Around 100 emergency responders rushed to the scene, a leisure complex that …
World’s first GWh-class sodium-ion battery production line sees first product off line
Hina Battery’s production line, located in Fuyang, Anhui province, is the first phase of its 5 GWh project. Sodium-ion batteries are likely to become more and more of a topic of interest in the battery sector. The first product from the world’s first GWh-class sodium-ion battery production line rolled off the line in Fuyang, Anhui …
Chicago school’s mental health work recognized among the “World’s Best”
Before the sun came up Wednesday in Chicago, cheers filled a multipurpose room at Curie Metropolitan High School as news broke: Curie had been named one of the “World’s Best Schools.” The Southwest Side high school is among five schools — and the only school in North America — awarded a $50,000 World’s Best School …
Virtual worlds apart | MIT News
What is virtual reality? On a technical level, it is a headset-enabled system using images and sounds to make the user feel as if they are in another place altogether. But in terms of the content and essence of virtual reality — well, that may depend on where you are. In the U.S., for instance, …
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé is world’s most expensive car after selling for $142.9 million
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé is world’s most expensive car after selling for $142.9 million | Fortune You need to enable JavaScript to view this site. Source link
Environment Reporter Oliver Milman on Our World’s ‘Insect Crisis’ – KQED
Three out of four of the planet’s known animal species are insects, and their populations are crashing as a result of climate change, habitat loss, pesticides and pollution. And the ecosystem-wide effects of all of these losses could be deadly for humanity: globally, one-third of our food is pollinated by bees, flies, butterflies, moths and …
GIWUS Technology Announces The World’s First Fully-Automated AI-Controlled Fire Protection System
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Multinational inventors of GIWUS Technology, LLC (giwustech.com), have invented the world’s first fully-automated artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled fire safety system. The system includes an Ultraxs Robotic Firefighter and a Smart Application. This innovative system seamlessly interfaces with existing fire suppression systems and the metaverse to automatically detect and suppress fires in a world-record time …
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