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On this day, in 1971, an advertisement in the magazine Electronic News announces the Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor. The 4004 was primarily used in calculators, the first being the Busicom 141-PF. In fact, it was Busicom that actually developed the design of what would become the Intel 4004. Busicom approached Intel to help them finalize the design and manufacture their calculator engine. Intel’s engineers reduced the 12 integrated circuit desi...gn Busicom had come up with to 4 ICs and delivered the finished product in January 1971. Busicom had exclusive rights to that design until later in that year, when Busicom and Intel renegotiated their contract with Intel lowering their prices to Busicom in exchange for rights to the design of the microprocessor. Read more at thisdayintechhistory.com #alphacoding

Scientists with the help of antennae made from actual cake tins have solved the mystery of what causes fast radio bursts that zip and zigzag through the universe. They have known about these powerful energy pulses for about 13 years and have seen them coming from outside our galaxy, which makes it harder to trace them back to what’s causing them. Making it even harder is that they happen so fast, in a couple of milliseconds.... Then this April, a rare but much weaker burst coming from inside our own Milky Way galaxy was spotted by two dissimilar* telescopes: one a student’s set of handmade antennae, which included cake tins (in which you would cook a cake), the other a $28 million Canadian observatory. They tracked that fast radio burst to a weird type of star called a magnetar that’s 32,000 light-years* from Earth, according to four studies in the journal Nature. It was not only the first fast radio burst traced to a source, but the first coming from within our galaxy. Astronomers say there could be other sources for these bursts, but they are now sure about one source: magnetars. @kidsnews.com.au Read more at: https://www.kidsnews.com.au//681a771eaefeae41e9f1f46ada0ff

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Trick or treat? Happy Halloween! #halloween #happyhalloween #trickortreat #halloween2020

Halloween themed lessons! Aariv built a haunted house in Minecraft, Khayal made a Halloween sky banner out of jack-o-lanterns, and Ethan, who is a little bit advanced in Python is working on a Haunted house game in Python, we added Halloween themed text art to the code. How do you like it?

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