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A notification from Twitter appears on a tweet by President Trump warning that it violated its policy on May 29

Facebook Cannot Fix Itself. But Trump's Effort to Reform Section 230 Is Wrong

In a week that saw the official death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in th...

In a week that saw the official death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States surpass 100,000, when the number of applications for unemployment insurance exceeded 40 million and Americans were protesting in...

Taiwanese Chipmaker Plans to Build $12 Billion Factory in Arizona

TSMC said it will start construction of its next major fabrication facility...

TSMC said it will start construction of its next major fabrication facility in 2021, to be completed by 2024

The first Picturephone call from Chicago to NYC, between deaf students, in 1964

Video Chat Is Helping Us Stay Connected in Lockdown. But the Tech Was Once a ‘Spectacular Flop’

The first video-call technology was demonstrated in 1927, but the idea was ...

The first video-call technology was demonstrated in 1927, but the idea was largely a failure in the years that followed. Here's why

In 1988, three Canadian Captioning Development Agency employees watch television monitors in a studio where closed captioning is done.

How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning and Changed the Way Americans Watch TV

Whenever people watch videos with captions, "they have the deaf community t...

Whenever people watch videos with captions, "they have the deaf community to thank"

Frank J. Sprague with the double elevator shaft, which permits running of two elevators. He installed the first battery of electric elevators in the Postal Telegraph Building in 1892.

How Electric Elevators Transformed the Modern City

Land in a city is worth so much because of what can be built on it, or rath...

Land in a city is worth so much because of what can be built on it, or rather, what can be built above it. Without electric elevators, all that vertical space would be worth far less

The power grid is lit in the final days of Y2K testing at the Niagara Mohawk Power Company control facility in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 28, 1999. The company planned for more than 1000 staff to be on duty system-wide on New Year's Eve to be ready for any problems.

20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously

Some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the wor...

Some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly

William Kendall Crossfield; Samuel Holmes Doten; Almeron C. Inman

How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Identify Thousands of Unknown Civil War Soldiers

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