The first digital scanner, used to take the first digital photo in 1957 (left) and the first digital photo, an image of Russell Kirsch’s new baby in 1957 (right)Image: NIST (Fair use) Russell Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel and the first person to take a digital photo, died Tuesday …
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A man wearing a preventative measure wearing a face mask walks past a closed bar in Hong Kong. May James | SOPA images | LightRocket | Getty Images The Hong Kong government on Friday downgraded its full-year forecast following a recent surge in coronavirus cases that threaten to further derail …
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Fragments of glass-fossilized grass and microscopic traces of plant material, dating to about 200,000 years ago, are all that is left of a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer bed in the back of Border Cave. In the same part of the rock shelter, archaeologists found layers as with more recent (as in at …
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Frank Zappa’s Halloween 1981 Residence at the Palladium of New York will appear in the upcoming 6-CD boxset Halloween 81, the latest entry in a series of collections dedicated to the legendary All Hallows Eve guitar of the great guitar. Zappa Records and UMe – which were released earlier Halloween …
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Fortnite has been pulled from the App Store and the Google Play Store. Epic games Would you rather have 99 small opponents than two really, really big fights? On Thursday, Fortnite publisher Epic Games was embroiled in a spat with both Apple and Google over fees charged by tech behemoths …
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