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I’m hunting for the woman whose use of an early chatbot turned the inventor against his creation.
Apple’s phenomenal success and the field of user experience design can be traced back to the launch of the Macintosh personal computer.
Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?
Hidden Figures is certainly inspirational, but the racial politics of the space programme were hardly so easily settled.
Having begun as a military answer to a Cold War threat (the Sputnik), the ARPANET turned into a completely different kind of network.
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