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in the busy, stressful world. "People often ask 7. us(we) why we’re doing this. But you know it’s a great life and we’re learning so much on our journey, "says William 8. proudly(proud). Last year they started a website to tell people a lot of stories about their walks...
British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Along with colleagues at Geneva-based CERN -- the European Organization for Nuclear Research -- Berners-Lee had been working on the concept since 1989. Their goal was to combine available technologies and data networks to create a u...
The World Wide Web and the idea of a blog appeared at the same time. Tim Berners-Lee, often described as the Web’s inventor, created the first “blog” in 1992 to outline and render visible the ongoing development of the Web and the software necessary to navigate this new space. Web ...
In 2016, the strongest Go player (Go is an abstract strategy board game invented in China more than 2,500 years ago) in the world, Lee Sedol, sat down for a match against Google DeepMind’s Machine Learning program, AlphaGo. AlphaGo won the 5-day long match. Machine Learning has paved...
There are approximately1 billion connected wearable devicesin use worldwide. In 2021, the wearable technology market was valued at approximately$116 billion, with significant growth yet to come. Consumer electronics make up the most significant share of wearables. But there’s increasing interest in ...
Short for Really Simple Syndication (at least now — more on that later), RSS was invented as a way to subscribe to a source of information, such as a Web site, and get content delivered to you. These "sources of information" were called feeds. By subscribing, users get a feed — of...
giant Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) began making sterile gauze dressings as early as 1887. But it wasn't until 1920 that the company launched its BAND-AID Brand adhesive bandage. A cotton buyer for Johnson & Johnson, Earle Dickson, invented the product, as the company recounts on its website:...
Who Invented Crypto? The first known attempt to create a cryptocurrency was eCash in the 1980s. David Chaum wrote the first whitepaper and established a company called DigiCash that would ultimately make eCash.1However, cryptocurrency, as it's known today, is the result of many years of dev...