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February 10, 1996: The Machines’ Takeover Begins
Today marks the anniversary of a watershed moment in human history. In Philadelphia, the IBM computer named Deep Blue became, on February 10, 1996, the first machine to beat a reigning chess world champion, Garry Kasparov.
While nobody could have known at the time, this was the moment when machines truly began their conquest of Earth. […] Continue reading
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Giving the Geekling a Computer (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Two years ago, you were reading this by Jacob Russell.
We recently gave the Pup a computer of her very own. We had previously given her a hand-me-down, which subsequently died, but this was special. A geek-friend of mine recently built some PCs as part of a project at work (Core Duo, 4 gigs […] Continue reading
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