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Historic Tech Events

General Motors Filed for Bankruptcy

General Motors Filed for Bankruptcy

2012

American motor-vehicle manufacturer General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; it soon emerged from the reorganization and in 2010 returned to the stock market with one of the largest IPOs in U.S. history.

The First Email was Sent

The First Email was Sent

1971

Engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first email using the @ symbol to separate the user name from the computer name.

Oxygen was discovered

Oxygen was discovered

1774

The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele by heating potassium nitrate, mercuric oxide, and many other substances.

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Ants and Algorithms: 5 Solutions Inspired From Insects

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Tech and the Value of Gold: Why Production Won’t Change Its Worth

Baptiste Monnet

Baptiste Monnet

August 1, 2025

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Hamieverse Taps Abstract To Power Its Debut Blockchain Game And Purpose-Driven Ecosystem

August 1, 2025

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Pepe Dollar ($PEPD) Presale Picks Up Pace As Ethereum (ETH) Hovers Over $3,600

August 1, 2025

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These Volunteers Turned Bird Nets Into Anti-Drone Shields

August 1, 2025

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

YOLO Jungle: С3, C2F, C3K2 — What Do They Even Mean?

August 1, 2025

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Meta’s AI Boss Just Called LLMs ‘Simplistic’ — Here’s What He’s Building Instead

August 1, 2025

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: How I Set Up a Cowrie Honeypot to Capture Real SSH Attacks (8/1/2025)

August 1, 2025

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#SOFTWARE-ACQUISITION

6 Things You Need to Consider Before Buying a Software Company

August 1, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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gRPC-Secret: Mastering Deadlines, Timeouts, and Custom Contexts

August 1, 2024

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Top Back-to-School Tech for Parents, Caregivers, and Kids

August 1, 2024

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98% of Data Strategies Fail: Let's Fix It

August 1, 2024

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Is the Honeymoon With Generative AI Over or Just Beginning?

August 1, 2024

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Information Overload: How AI With Research Content Curation Could Lead the Way

August 1, 2024

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Security Risk Advisors Announces Launch of VECTR Enterprise Edition

August 1, 2024

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#AI-PROGRAMMERS

How I Built an AI Programmer to Automate GitHub Issue Fixes 🤯

Sunil Kumar Dash

Sunil Kumar Dash

August 1, 2024

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#STARTUP-ADVICE

16 Key Principles for Tech-Led Startups to Scale Efficiently

August 1, 2024

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How to Improve Your Blog Posts by Proofreading With ChatGPT

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productiveimpact

August 1, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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Eco-Friendly Data Centers: Taking the Leap to Space

August 1, 2023

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Robotics in Agriculture: Cultivating the Future

August 1, 2023

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

How AI Will Impact Teacher-Student Relationships: A Conversation With Professor Lance Cummings

August 1, 2023

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Enjinstarter IDO investors win big with AI

August 1, 2023

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ChatGPT Translator VS Mine: Which One Is Better?

August 1, 2023

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We Achieved #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt (Without Cheating)! Here's How

August 1, 2023

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#VIBRANIUM-FINANCE

Meet Vibranium Finance: The First Multi-chain Interest-Bearing Stablecoin LSDfi Project

August 1, 2023

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When the Curtain Lifted

L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery

August 1, 2023

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The OpenCV Journey Part II: Canny Edge Detection

August 1, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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#CLOUD-COMPUTING

4 Ways to Scale Your Business With Cloud Computing

August 1, 2022

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Why I have 218 Tabs Open

August 1, 2022

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How to Get a Recruiter to Work Harder for You

August 1, 2022

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Is DeSci the Future of Research?

Samuel Akinosho

Samuel Akinosho

August 1, 2022

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The Essential Web3 Tools and Technologies Developers Must Know

August 1, 2022

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How to Onboard New Users With Coinbase Wallet

August 1, 2022

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#CONTEXT-OF-TYPED-DATA

Date and Time Values are a Mess - Here's Why

lobarieva.liuka@gmail.com

[email protected]

August 1, 2022

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Crypto eCommerce is on the Rise

August 1, 2022

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#AI-APPLICATIONS

Artificial Intelligence and Art: When Is Art Really Art?

Viacheslav Varenia

Viacheslav Varenia

August 1, 2022

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