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Ebola-response nurse killed in Congo amid violence and water rumors
An Ebola-response nurse was killed and a second health worker seriously injured in an attack on Saturday, October 24, in Bafwasende, Tshopo province, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreye…
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Voyager’s Golden Record includes a decoding key and a clock
Voyager’s Golden Record was designed as more than a playlist. Each 1977 spacecraft carries a 12-inch gold-plated copper disc, and the aluminium cover is part of the message: its engravings explain how to play the record, reconstruct its im…
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Why GPS satellites need a built-in correction for Einstein’s relativity
Your phone’s GPS fix depends on a correction for Einstein: clocks do not tick at the same rate everywhere. A GPS receiver estimates distance by comparing when a satellite sent a timestamp with when it arrived. Since the signal travels at t…
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Why ARPANET’s first host-to-host message stopped at LO
On October 29, 1969, UCLA computer science student Charley Kline tried to log in remotely to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute. The first two letters arrived: “L” and “O.” When Kline sent “G,” the system crashed. The team compl…
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Nintendo sold Famicom game rewrites at Japanese shops for ¥500
Photo: A Famicom with the Disk System attached—not a Disk Writer kiosk. Evan-Amos / Vanamo Media, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. In 1986, Nintendo gave Famicom owners in Japan an unusually reusable way to buy games: take a Disk Card…
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The Game Boy Camera was a pocket photo lab with its own sticker printer
Image: Game Boy Printer, 1998; Science Museum Group Collection (image © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum). Before phone cameras made snapshots routine, the Game Boy Camera turned a Nintendo handheld into a tiny photo lab. The ca…
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Kenya Red Cross rescues man alive from Eastleigh rubble; search continues
Kenya Red Cross teams have now pulled a man alive from the rubble of the Eastleigh building that collapsed in Nairobi on Friday, October 23. The organisation said he was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital; it did not identify him or repor…
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Why the Steam Deck pre-caches shaders before you play
Conceptual illustration; results vary by game, GPU and driver. Steam Deck's “Processing Vulkan shaders” screen can look like another game update, but Steam is preparing graphics work. Shaders are small programs that render lighting, materi…