On This Day in Tech History

Stories Published|December 18|Throughout History

Historic Tech Events

A Weird Monolith was Found in the Utah Desert

A Weird Monolith was Found in the Utah Desert

2020

The Utah monolith, built sometime in 2016, was discovered by state biologists of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.

NASA launched the MAVEN probe to Mars

NASA launched the MAVEN probe to Mars

2013

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) was Launched in Nov. 2013; the mission explored the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind.

Disney’s Steamboat Willie was released

Disney’s Steamboat Willie was released

1928

The animated short, Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featured the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

Stories Published in 2025

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

AI Can Fix the 5 Biggest Breakpoints in M&A Diligence: Here's How

November 18, 2025

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'Vibe Coding' Is Now In The Collins Dictionary - But What About 'Technical Debt'?

November 18, 2025

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SecurityMetrics Wins "Data Leak Detection Solution of the Year" in 2025 CyberSecurity Breakthrough

November 18, 2025

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SpyCloud Unveils Top 10 Cybersecurity Predictions Poised to Disrupt Identity Security In 2026

November 18, 2025

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A Developer’s Guide to Building Next-Gen Smart Wallets with ERC-4337 — Part 1: The EntryPoint

November 18, 2025

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#ML-SECURITY-FRAMEWORK

Classifier-Based VP System Targets High-Risk Code Changes in Upstream Projects

November 18, 2025

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#ML-SECURITY-FRAMEWORK

Machine Learning-based Vulnerability Protections For Android Open Source Project

November 18, 2025

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Future MLLMs: Contribution of MIL-Based Techniques and Enriched Visual Signals

November 18, 2025

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MIVPG on E-commerce: Multi-Image/Multi-Patch Aggregation for Captioning

November 18, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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Digital Asset Insurance Crisis: $19 Billion Coverage Gap Identified in New Report

November 18, 2024

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Javascript Closures: What Are They?

November 18, 2024

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What Is a 504 Gateway Timeout Error? Causes, Fixes, and Prevention

November 18, 2024

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#TEXT-TO-IMAGE-MODELS

User Preferences and CLIP Metrics: Results of AnimateDiff’s Performance in Video Generation

November 18, 2024

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#TEXT-TO-IMAGE-MODELS

How AnimateDiff Brings Personalized T2Is to Life with Efficient Motion Modeling

November 18, 2024

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#TEXT-TO-IMAGE-MODELS

AnimateDiff in the Wild

November 18, 2024

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#TEXT-TO-IMAGE-MODELS

Mastering Motion Dynamics in Animation with Temporal Transformers

November 18, 2024

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#TEXT-TO-IMAGE-MODELS

Bridging Domain Gaps with a Domain Adapter for Higher-Quality Animation

November 18, 2024

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#TEXT-TO-IMAGE-MODELS

Adapting Motion Patterns Efficiently with MotionLoRA in AnimateDiff

November 18, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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"THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE."

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

November 18, 2023

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THE DUKE'S FIRST COUSIN.

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

November 18, 2023

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The Noonification: Delving Into OpenTelemetry Collector (11/18/2023)

November 18, 2023

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How to Sell A Technical Debt From a DevOps Perspective?

Sofia Konobievska

Sofia Konobievska

November 18, 2023

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#OPENTELEMTRY-COLLECTOR

Delving Into OpenTelemetry Collector

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

November 18, 2023

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30 Years, 30 Lessons: A Journey Through Life's Wisdom

November 18, 2023

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#VPN-AND-PRIVACY

68 Stories To Learn About Vpn And Privacy

November 18, 2023

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#FUTURE-OF-MONEY

56 Stories To Learn About Future Of Money

November 18, 2023

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312 Stories To Learn About Future

November 18, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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DeFi’s Rise to Shame: Its Problems and How to Fix Them

November 18, 2022

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Rock Solid Splunk or How I Learned to Love Splunk Validated Architectures

November 18, 2022

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Tom Burns on Hopfield Networks and the Nature of General AI

Stylianos Kampakis

Stylianos Kampakis

November 18, 2022

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The Importance of a Strong Community in the Blockchain Ecosystem

November 18, 2022

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The Psychology of Color in Marketing

November 18, 2022

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#HACKERNOON-BOOKS

The Future Effects of the Anthropological Sciences

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

November 18, 2022

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#HACKERNOON-BOOKS

The World Of Physics and the World Of Sense

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

November 18, 2022

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7 Tips on How a Junior IT Professional Can Find a Job Today

Tatiana Melnichuk

Tatiana Melnichuk

November 18, 2022

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My Top 7 WTF Learnings from the FTX/SBF Chapter 11 Filing

Linh Dao Smooke

Linh Dao Smooke

November 18, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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#BUILDING-NOTIFICATION-SYSTEMS

Building Notification Systems as a Developer: Routing and Preferences

November 18, 2021

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Improving Our MongoDB Write Throughput with SQS

November 18, 2021

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Learn the Truth about Software Developers and Dare to Change your Recruitment Strategy

November 18, 2021

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Git Tutorial: How to Easily Exclude Files During Git Add without Manual Entry

Kode with Chirag

Kode with Chirag

November 18, 2021

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How to Preserve Battery Life and See Battery Percentage on iPhone 12 and 12 Pro

November 18, 2021

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Blockchain Technology Improves Data Authentication and Transparency in Healthcare

November 18, 2021

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#DATA-ENGINEERING

Introduction to a Career in Data Engineering

November 18, 2021

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Everything Started with a One-Way Ticket, a Suitcase, and Just $300

November 18, 2021

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Facebook is Not the Right Company to Coin the 'Metaverse'

November 18, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

How to Change the Background of Any Video with Five Lines of Code

Ayoola Olafenwa

Ayoola Olafenwa

November 18, 2020

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Hosting Provider Cloud Clusters Inc. Potentially Exposed 63M Records

November 18, 2020

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3 Impressive Cyberattacks of 2020: What we Can Learn From Them

November 18, 2020

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How to Upload to Amazon S3 via AWS CLI and NPM scripts

November 18, 2020

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The Difference Between Privacy Talkers and Privacy Doers

November 18, 2020

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#BreakTheCode To Win Prizes On Black Friday 2020, Instead Of Lining Up To Buy Them

November 18, 2020

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3 Open Source Product Information Management (PIM) Solutions

November 18, 2020

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[Announcement] This Year's Black Friday Sale is Better Than Ever!

November 18, 2020

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How To Implement 3D Human Pose Estimation System In AI Fitness Apps

November 18, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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JavaScript Promises, Callbacks, and Async/Await for Beginners

November 18, 2019

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All About Lambda Functions in C++: from C++11 to C++17

Vishal Chovatiya

Vishal Chovatiya

November 18, 2019

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Dev Talent in the Age of Commoditization

November 18, 2019

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A Conversation with Genesis Mining CEO Marco Streng

David Ben Melech

David Ben Melech

November 18, 2019

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How to Build a Simple Python Reminder App

Evgeniy Lebedev

Evgeniy Lebedev

November 18, 2019

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Check Point Security Breach: A Leading Cybersecurity Company Has Been Breached

November 18, 2019

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Engineering Purpose

November 18, 2019

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Business Lessons From The AOL Deal That Made Google A Tech Giant

Gennaro Cuofano

Gennaro Cuofano

November 18, 2019

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Making an Electron 7 React app for the challenger Bank Revolut

November 18, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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How Onion Routing Can Save Your Crypto

November 18, 2018

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How We Built a Secure Crypto Portfolio Tracker

November 18, 2018

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How We’re Making Products & Campaigns Easy To Explore + All The Latest ELIX Updates

November 18, 2018

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

How to stop reading code and start delivering.

Bohdan Liashenko

Bohdan Liashenko

November 18, 2018

/designing-rest-api-with-open-api-specification-oas-v2-0-v3-0-using-swagger-11dd4ef8cea6 feature image

Designing REST API with Open API Specification (OAS) v2.0 & v3.0 using Swagger

November 18, 2018

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Shortest and Longest Path Algorithms: Job Interview Cheatsheet

November 18, 2018

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How to quickly get the dates for the first 10 Mondays using Ruby

November 18, 2018

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Jesse Powell is Building a Culture of Crypto Values at Kraken

Peter McCormack

Peter McCormack

November 18, 2018

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What is Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

November 18, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

Tips for Navigating Large and Unfamiliar Codebases

November 18, 2017

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Maker Angst — Job Flippers and Do Gooders

November 18, 2017

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Marketplaces and trust

November 18, 2017

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An Introduction to Cryptocurrency Investing

November 18, 2017

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The horrors of spelling when training and building chatbots

Terren Peterson

Terren Peterson

November 18, 2017

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#SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT

GitLab Performance Monitoring with Grafana

Mohamed Labouardy

Mohamed Labouardy

November 18, 2017

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The use of No Reply email addresses should be illegal.

November 18, 2017

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Keducer — Automate writing redux reducers with 5 lines of javascript

November 18, 2017

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#VENTURE-CAPITAL

Why Decentralized Companies Are So F****** Cool To Work At

November 18, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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Your brain can fix bugs while you sleep.

Santhosh Sundar

Santhosh Sundar

November 18, 2016

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Why Go?

João Henrique Machado

João Henrique Machado

November 18, 2016

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Our Ambitious Quest to Democratize Distributed Systems — Act 1: Protocols

November 18, 2016

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How JavaScript Fatigue simplifies coding and increases revenue

November 18, 2016

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#VIRTUAL-REALITY

5 Top 360-Degree Plugins for WordPress

November 18, 2016

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Rewriting the History

Nishant Srivastava

Nishant Srivastava

November 18, 2016

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Throwing off our scope chains

November 18, 2016

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Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care

November 18, 2016

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Curation and Discovery for Developer Tools + Resources

November 18, 2016

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