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Historic Tech Events

Demonetisation was announced in India

Demonetisation was announced in India

2016

On 8 November 2016, the Government of India announced the demonetisation of all ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series. It also announced the issuance of new ₹500 and ₹2,000 banknotes in exchange for the demonetised banknotes.

While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the X-ray

While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the X-ray

1895

Roentgen noticed that when he shielded the tube with heavy black cardboard, the green fluorescent light caused a platinobarium screen nine feet away to glow which led him to discover the X Ray technology, revolutionizing the field of Physics.

Adolf Hitler survived a bombing assassination attempt

Adolf Hitler survived a bombing assassination attempt

1939

Adolf Hitler narrowly missed an assassination attempt concocted by George Elser. Hitler was supposed to give a long speech but left early, leaving before the bomb ever went off.

Stories Published in 2025

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

GenAI Incident Severity Matrix: Custom Scoring Model for Cybersecurity Response

Keyur Rajyaguru

Keyur Rajyaguru

November 8, 2025

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#PASSWORD-SECURITY

I Built a Password Tool in 2 Weekends (And Got 1,000 Users)

November 8, 2025

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: DevOps Isnt a Tool, Its a Chain Reaction (11/8/2025)

November 8, 2025

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What Are Generics? An Introduction for Beginners

Go [Technical Documentation]

Go [Technical Documentation]

November 8, 2025

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Why Australia's Under 16 Social Media Ban Matters

Matthew - Technology News Australia

Matthew - Technology News Australia

November 8, 2025

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Rustup 1.27.1: Minor Bug Fixes Can Have a Big Positive Impact

Rust (Technical Documentation)

Rust (Technical Documentation)

November 8, 2025

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DevOps Isn't a Tool, It's a Chain Reaction

November 8, 2025

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Gran Turismo 7 - How to Save & Upload Race Clips/Replays to YouTube

November 8, 2025

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The TechBeat: The $10 Billion Logic Error: What Happens When Security Moves Faster Than Sanity (11/8/2025)

November 8, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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#SOFTWARE-ARCHITECTURE

How to Implement Multi-Tenant Authentication with Keycloak in an Angular Spring Boot Stack

Pier-Jean Malandrino

Pier-Jean Malandrino

November 8, 2024

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How to Integrate Next.js with Electron Using React Server Components

November 8, 2024

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#DATA-ENGINEERING

How to Accurately Measure Binomial Proportions for Reliable Conversion Metrics

Kliment Merzlyakov

Kliment Merzlyakov

November 8, 2024

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#CYBERATTACK-PREVENTION

How to Protect Small and Middle Businesses From Cyberattacks

November 8, 2024

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How Bright Data Simplifies Web Scraping/Data Collection for AI Training

November 8, 2024

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Celebrating The Success Of Zircuit’s ZRC EigenLayer Fairdrop

November 8, 2024

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#RWA-TOKENIZATION

RWA Tokenization:Catching Up With The Numbers, The Institutional Players, And The Market Predictions

Olayimika Oyebanji

Olayimika Oyebanji

November 8, 2024

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Life Hack: RED - Retired, Extremely Dexterous

November 8, 2024

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Polymarket Explained: How Blockchain Prediction Markets Are Shaping the Future of Forecasting

November 8, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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EARLY ELECTRIC LIGHTING

Scientific American

Scientific American

November 8, 2023

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Death of Professor Santini

Scientific American

Scientific American

November 8, 2023

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AN UNDELIVERED SPEECH

November 8, 2023

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#TECH-COMPANIES

Here's How RocketX Boosts DeFi On the MicroVision Chain Through Interoperability

November 8, 2023

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

SSL Certificates for Both www and non-www versions of a Domain

Bogdan Tudorache

Bogdan Tudorache

November 8, 2023

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Sheriff Release v16 is Here With Support for Astro.js

November 8, 2023

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#BITCOIN-ADOPTION

Bitcoin Spot ETF: What’s All The Fuss About?

November 8, 2023

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The Rise of Layer 3 Blockchain Is Going To Lead The Next Bull Run

Prajjval Tripathi

Prajjval Tripathi

November 8, 2023

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#JAVASCRIPT-DEVELOPMENT

Introducing The Popover API: Elevating Web UI Interactivity with JavaScript

Sudheer Kumar Reddy Gowrigari

Sudheer Kumar Reddy Gowrigari

November 8, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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DEX's And AMM's Fuel DeFi Growth

November 8, 2022

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Retail Trading Tech Trends, the Positive Impacts, and More

November 8, 2022

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The Future Of Defi In Fintech: Decentralized Exchanges, Lending, And Payments

November 8, 2022

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The 10 Most Inspirational Quotes by Miki Agrawal

November 8, 2022

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Will AI Be The Key To The Green Revolution?

November 8, 2022

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

Learn Modern AI Terms to Stay in the Know

November 8, 2022

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#CRYPTO-LENDING

[Review] The First Positive Sum Defi Protocol on Ethereum Is Getting a Major Update

November 8, 2022

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🎮 Our Experience Trying a Web3 Game in Open Alpha

November 8, 2022

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How to Reduce Your Chances of Being a Victim of Identity Theft

November 8, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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How to Detect AdBlocker and Serve Ads with Adsense On a Personal Website

November 8, 2021

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A Beginner's Guide to Unit Testing In JavaScript

November 8, 2021

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Leveraging Amazon IVS in Creating Unique Ecommerce Livestreaming Experience

Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)

Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)

November 8, 2021

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Top 30 Free and Paid Courses and Tutorials to Learn React in 2021

November 8, 2021

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Why Application Performance Monitoring Matters

November 8, 2021

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#FUTURE-OF-WORK

Automate All Production: Leisure, Not Work, Is Our Goal

November 8, 2021

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How to Survive Our Dystopian Future: A Practical List of Do's and Don'ts

November 8, 2021

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#DISINFORMATION-AND-FAKE-NEWS

Debunking Coca-Cola's Most Popular Business Motivation Myth

November 8, 2021

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Unpacking (Indie Game Review): A Meditative Stress Buster

November 8, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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The Best Slack Groups for Data Scientists to Join

Limarc Ambalina

Limarc Ambalina

November 8, 2020

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Blockchain Investigations in NTerminal - Powered by Splunk & CipherTrace

November 8, 2020

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

OTC Trading and DeFi are NOT Mutually Exclusive

November 8, 2020

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

2017 Vs 2020 in crypto: any chance to replicate "success"?

Maria Stankevich

Maria Stankevich

November 8, 2020

Banking on The Blockchain via Monetization of Your Avatar

November 8, 2020

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Access External Data in Solidity: A How-To Guide

Patrick Collins

Patrick Collins

November 8, 2020

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Cryptocurrencies for Payment: The Twain Series

November 8, 2020

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Inside Yield Farming 2020: What's the trend?

Anton Dzyatkovskii

Anton Dzyatkovskii

November 8, 2020

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#CRYPTO-LENDING

A Beginner's Guide to The Crypto Lending Space - Opportunities, Risks, and Potential

November 8, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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CSS Basics For Noobs

November 8, 2019

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How To Implement The Prefetch Pattern in React Concurrent Mode

November 8, 2019

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#EXPENSE-ALLOCATION-SOFTWARE

3 Software Solutions to Help Hedge Fund & Private Equity Firms Scale

November 8, 2019

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Learn How To Create HTML Forms Like A Pro

November 8, 2019

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How Splice Applied the Scientific Method to Unblock Deployment

November 8, 2019

/charting-the-rise-of-augmented-reality-how-will-ar-develop-in-the-next-decade-77v3z1n feature image

Charting The Rise of Augmented Reality: How Will AR Develop in The Next Decade?

November 8, 2019

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How to Build a Multi-Lingual Chatbot with IBM Translation API and Ably

November 8, 2019

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Instant GraphQL + MongoDB Backend With Mongoke

November 8, 2019

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Magento 2 Extension Development : Commonly Faced Issues & How To Troubleshoot Them

keerthi kumar sr

keerthi kumar sr

November 8, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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Decentralization on the Blockchain Is a Pipe Dream

Kirill Bensonoff

Kirill Bensonoff

November 8, 2018

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Beyond modern portfolio theory

November 8, 2018

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Brave’s Brendan Eich on Fixing Online Advertising

Peter McCormack

Peter McCormack

November 8, 2018

/how-data-analytics-can-revolutionize-your-business-strategy-and-unlock-success-f6c00d11808e feature image

How Data Analytics Can Revolutionize Your Business Strategy and Unlock Success

November 8, 2018

/how-to-get-exposure-to-1-million-crypto-enthusiasts-for-free-f8e74c21e131 feature image

How to Get Exposure to 1 Million Crypto Enthusiasts for Free

Ty Daniel Smith

Ty Daniel Smith

November 8, 2018

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Why Blockchain Might not be the Perfect Technology for the Music Industry

November 8, 2018

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Top 75+ ICO Marketing Agencies

November 8, 2018

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#CHRONIC-ILLNESS

Hacking Your Health Step 1: Develop Fortitude

November 8, 2018

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The SEC Fights Decentralization: Round 1

November 8, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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#CLOUD-COMPUTING

5 Ways Cloud Access Security Brokers Make Your Data Extra Secure

November 8, 2017

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Yes, this kid really just deleted $300 MILLION by messing around with Ethereum’s smart contracts.

November 8, 2017

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Create 9Gag Android Application

Mohamed Labouardy

Mohamed Labouardy

November 8, 2017

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No fork!

November 8, 2017

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#VENTURE-CAPITAL

The ‘Seed Stage’ is Now The ‘Seed Gradient’

Founder Collective

Founder Collective

November 8, 2017

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This Startup Raised $35,943,270 of Funding via 28 Kickstarter Campaigns

Founder Collective

Founder Collective

November 8, 2017

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No More 2x: Bitcoin Hard Fork Cancelled Due to Lack of Consensus

November 8, 2017

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KYC: the Death of Bitcoin?

November 8, 2017

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Multi-device is hard, and not even Apple gets it right

November 8, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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My teck stack if I had to build an app today

Ferdinand Mütsch

Ferdinand Mütsch

November 8, 2016

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Why Lending Startups Might be in Serious Trouble

November 8, 2016

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Component system in interactive 3D of web

Alexander Buzin

Alexander Buzin

November 8, 2016

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A Poor Man’s Hacker’s Guide to “Data-Driven” Presentations

November 8, 2016

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System Settings

Brujo Benavides

Brujo Benavides

November 8, 2016

/the-biggest-e-commerce-sales-event-in-the-world-is-not-black-friday-d3bbced9695 feature image

The Biggest E-Commerce Sales Event In The World Is Not Black Friday.

Evgeny Tchebotarev

Evgeny Tchebotarev

November 8, 2016

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Why Innovation Matters In Politics And The Public Sector

November 8, 2016

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If CSS is so easy why does everyone suck?

November 8, 2016

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Test well, sleep well

Piotr Ślesarew

November 8, 2016

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