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NewsPicks AI: Missing Medieval Relic of Legendary English King Found After Being Missing for 40 Years
Dr. Dorandeu had been given permission to work in the detached seals (Sceaux détachés) collection at the Archives Nationales by curator Clément Blanc....
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NewsPicks AI: Titanic vs Technology: Why It Can’t Be Brought Back 🌊 #Titanic #ViralFacts #sciencefacts #viral
Titanic sank over 100 years ago, yet scientists still wonder if it can ever be lifted back. From liquid nitrogen freezing, giant magnets ...
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NewsPicks AI: The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology
Made between the 1947 invention of the transistor at Bell Labs and the 1956 awarding of the Nobel Prize for Physics to its ...
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NewsPicks AI: These LGBTQ+ Archives Defy Erasure, One Memory at a Time
The Trans Memory Archive of Argentina started as a closed Facebook group where friends from the 1980s and 1990s could reconnect. It was...
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NewsPicks AI: How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever
In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to deliver to Stanford...
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NewsPicks AI: Really Tiny Spy Technology
For almost 100 years microdots were used by spys all around the world to send secret messages in a way that was incredibly ...
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NewsPicks AI: ‘We Were Wrong’: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website
Kevin: When we went to do the IPO, it was very, very clear that the digital side was far more valuable than the...
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NewsPicks AI: GERMAN TANKS – Technology, Development & History | Full Documentary
The modern tank was born at the time of the First World War. The British used the rolling steel combat vehicles for the first...
