Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
The early results of a nearly two year project in Boulder show how the program has helped 200 low-income households make ends meet. Elevate Boulder gave monthly payments funded by the American Rescue ...
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Abstract: This brief presents the application of perimeter-gated single-photon avalanche diodes (pg-SPADs) as true random number generators (TRNGs). Typical SPADs have been used as random number ...
Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite this, their random number ...
When a tipster came to us with the line “One dollar BASIC computer”, it intrigued us enough to have a good look at [Stan6314]’s TinyBasRV computer. It’s a small PCB that forms a computer running BASIC ...
A pandemic-era program aimed to facilitate hotel and office to affordable housing conversions. After a slow start, and numerous financing and design challenges, its first project is opening in Queens.
Microsoft said it will cease using China-based computer engineering teams for work on Pentagon cloud systems, after an investigation this week led to national security concerns at the highest levels ...
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The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a guaranteed income pilot program aiding 178 people over 18 months. In October, the board allocated $3.25 million in county funds ...