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How a 70s schoolteacher invented C, one of the most influential coding languages A tale of incredibly slow computers, three Davids, and the long-standing legacy of C The school teacher who was buddies with Alan Turing Meet Christopher Stratchey. Born 1916 into an influential British family, he studied at Cambridge University and got to know many a famous scientist there. However, he seemed to have a years-long tendency toneglect his studies, and his performance in the final exams was rather underwhelming....

How a couple of ex-Googlers are trying to fix what’s wrong with search engines Will you pay $4.95 for a premium search engine experince? What’s on offer? The company launched last year with a subscription-only model. This cost$4.95 per month. Now it’s trying to expand its footprint with a free tier. It will offer ad-free search with customizations, and integration to accounts such as Gmail, Microsoft Office, and Dropbox. People who’re paying for Neeva’s services will get all of this, a leading third-party VPN and a password manager service, and advanced features, like a monthly Q&A...

How a couple of ex-Googlers are trying to fix what’s wrong with search engines Will you pay $4.95 for a premium search engine experince? What’s on offer? The company launched last year with a subscription-only model. This cost$4.95 per month. Now it’s trying to expand its footprint with a free tier. It will offer ad-free search with customizations, and integration to accounts such as Gmail, Microsoft Office, and Dropbox. People who’re paying for Neeva’s services will get all of this, a leading third-party VPN and a password manager service, and advanced features, like a monthly Q&A...

How a fraudulent MP and a brilliant scientist created LCDs for flat-screens An unlikely alliance in the 60s helped birth the displays of the future Pixels and light Liquid crystals are a state of matter that sits between liquids and solids. They flow like a liquid, while the molecules within them maintain some order relative to each other, like in a crystal. The long and thin molecules pack against one another in an ordered rectangular arrangement of rows....

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