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ENIAC, developed by Penn researchers J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, helped launch the modern computing era by using streams of electrons to solve complex mathematical problems.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
The advent of artificial intelligence and modern manufacturing has humanity on the cusp of a labor revolution.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
They keep clean sheets and that's a rare commodity in the modern game, for a team to see out 1-0 victories like this team can.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
But consider: If even in our own uncomfortably modern times, there are ideas and feelings that are perfectly expressed in no other way but Latin—“tempus fugit,” for example, or “alma mater,” or “Et tu, Brute?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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"Ad Power," "Without Commercials," and "What's Wrong with Advertising"
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President Obama's second inaugural address
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