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Historic Tech Events

Facebook acquires Instagram

2012

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquisition of Instagram on his Facebook page, stating that Instagram would remain an independent app but would be connected to Facebook's services. The deal was valued at $1 billion, making it one of the largest tech acquisitions at the time. The app's user base has since skyrocketed, reaching over 2 billion monthly active users as of January 2023.

"Mercury Seven" announced

"Mercury Seven" announced

1959

USA's Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. This day marked the announcement of the first seven astronauts. As the Mercury project acquired notoriety, millions of people worldwide listened to and watched its missions on radio and television. Its accomplishment established the foundation for Project Gemini, which launched a few weeks after the first crewed Mercury trip and transported two astronauts while perfecting the space docking techniques necessary for crewed lunar landings.

Stories Published in 2025

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#IMAGE-RECOGNITION

Image Captioning and Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP

Image Recognition

Image Recognition

April 9, 2025

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#IMAGE-RECOGNITION

Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules Explained

Image Recognition

Image Recognition

April 9, 2025

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#CYBERSECURITY-TIPS

How $20 Million Vanished From Layer 2 - and Why No One Saw It Coming

April 9, 2025

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AI: Will You See or Be Made to See?

Ramu BYIRINGIRO

Ramu BYIRINGIRO

April 9, 2025

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#BLACKLIGHT-PRIVACY

The Blacklight Privacy Inspector Is Gaining Three New Features

April 9, 2025

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Gcore Super Transit Brings Advanced DDoS Protection And Acceleration For Enterprise Security & Speed

April 9, 2025

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The Remembering Self and the Experiencing Self: A Paradox to Happiness Hackers

Jonathan Roseland

Jonathan Roseland

April 9, 2025

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Dear Managers, Stop Promoting Toxic Productivity - Here's How

April 9, 2025

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

Inside VALR: Badi Sudhakaran Reveals Secrets to Crypto Exchange Success

April 9, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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Why the Uneven Global Pandemic Recovery Will Lead More Institutions Into Global Markets Than Ever

April 9, 2024

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Raiser.co Partners With MetalCore To Provide Early Access For Web3 Gaming Enthusiasts

April 9, 2024

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#AI-APPLICATIONS

How AI Is Reshaping the Fashion Industry

April 9, 2024

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#WORKFLOW-MANAGEMENT

How to Seamlessly Transfer From Airflow to Apache DolphinScheduler With Air2phin

April 9, 2024

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NeuroMesh: Spearheading The New Era Of AI With a Distributed Training Protocol

April 9, 2024

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#LOST-CRYPTOCURRENCY

Is Lost Cryptocurrency Still Valuable, and Can We Reclaim It?

April 9, 2024

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Interview With UeCalc Founder Daniil Khanin: Unlocking the Power of Unit Economics for Startups

April 9, 2024

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#DEFI-ECOSYSTEM

dWallet Network Brings Multi-chain DeFi To Sui, Featuring Native Bitcoin And Ethereum

April 9, 2024

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Ever Wondered What Happens When You Type google.com in Your Browser?

@zeekthebuilder

April 9, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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THE NATURE OF SEXUAL INVERSION

April 9, 2023

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TO PARIS UNDER THE SEA

Garrett P. Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss

April 9, 2023

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America has produced three men of world-wide significance

April 9, 2023

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Throughout the vegetable and animal worlds the sexual functions are periodic

April 9, 2023

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Life, we have seen, may be regarded as an art

April 9, 2023

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A FALLING BIRTH-RATE

April 9, 2023

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SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS

April 9, 2023

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#BITCOIN-AND-ALTCOINS

Don’t Buy Crypto Now. Wait for Entrance Liquidity

April 9, 2023

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HUSBANDS AND WIVES

April 9, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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Why Is Everyone Talking About The Blockchain?

April 9, 2022

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LOVO raises $6.5 Million in Pre-Series A to Develop the Voice of the Web3 Ecosystem

April 9, 2022

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What Publishers Had to Say About Internet Archive’s Sales Data Demand

April 9, 2022

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Beware That Ransomware Groups Can Operate as 'Legit' Businesses

Anastasios Arampatzis

Anastasios Arampatzis

April 9, 2022

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#SOCIAL-MEDIA-MARKETING

Where Do I Find the Right Social Media Marketing Data?

April 9, 2022

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#PUBLIC-RELATIONS

How Do I Launch a Successful PR Campaign For Crypto or In General?

April 9, 2022

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Debug your AWS Lambda in Production in just 5 steps

Burak Kantarcı

April 9, 2022

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

How to Break Down Barriers Of Entry To The Crypto Market

Daniel O'Keeffe

Daniel O'Keeffe

April 9, 2022

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#THE-GREAT-RESIGNATION

How the Great Resignation Has Widened The Tech Gap

April 9, 2022

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Stories Published in 2017

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How to write bad software and still make money

April 9, 2017

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Being the CEO of your career, as a software engineer

April 9, 2017

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Why AI research may be accelerating faster than experts realize

April 9, 2017

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Native Mobile Apps with Weex and VueJS 2.0

April 9, 2017

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Orphaned Data, Ghost Accounts, and their mysteries solved.

Brian Greenberg

Brian Greenberg

April 9, 2017

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Software Applications as Complex Adaptive Systems

April 9, 2017

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#INFRASTRUCTURE

Roman roads and data infrastructure

April 9, 2017

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Hacking 8 Algos

April 9, 2017

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React Navigation with MobX

April 9, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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Plato, Modern Physics and Baha’u’llah

Vahid Houston Ranjbar

Vahid Houston Ranjbar

April 9, 2016

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Why the best product managers don’t build the features their users ask for.

Abhishek Madhavan

Abhishek Madhavan

April 9, 2016

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The Selfish Genes of Silicon Valley

April 9, 2016

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