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The First Reprogrammable Quantum Computer Has Been Created

The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule.

How the Bit Was Born: Claude Shannon and the Invention of Information – Brain Pickings

Why Modern Human Interactions Are So Hard to Film

The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop To America)

My Time with Richard Feynman, by Stephen Wolfram, Backchannel

MIT’s new quantum computer could render today’s encryption useless

The Most Important Object In Computer Graphics History Is This Teapot

When Women Stopped Coding

Meet Walter Pitts, the Homeless Genius Who Revolutionized Artificial Intelligence

Gold Rush California Was Much More Expensive Than Today’s Tech-Boom California

Chart of evolution of Computer Power / Cost keeps improving, thanks in part to GPU chips. Is the Singularity coming?

How to access a million stunning, copyright-free antique illustrations released by the British Library

Web Design - The First 100 Years, by Maciej Cegłowski

Isaac Asimov predicting the internet of today in 1988

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

The Greatest Inventions of All Time Infographic, by Raconteur

The Father of the Digital Synthesizer

900 Seconds and 90 slides - The Four Horsemen of the Future: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, by Seth Galloway of NYU Stern, DLD15

Animated Gifs: A Throwback to Cinema’s Beginnings

Jan 2015: 4chan has 20 million monthly visitors and 1.2 million daily visitors, and founder Moot reflects on 11 years running 4chan

Yahoo Was the GE of the Internet and now the Yahoo Bosses form their own XY Alumni Mafia, by Rob Solomon, Recode

Speak & Spell: A History

What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com

A Bitcoin Battle Is Brewing

The Imitation Game, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing

The Man Who Made 'Tetris'

These Secret Cold War Radio Stations Are Still Broadcasting

Rare Apple computer's 135,651% price hike

Someone Had to Go First