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Coding After The Apocalypse

Wired published a fascinating piece about Virgil Dupras, a Canadian programmer that is working on Forth and Collapse OS, a low level postfix programming language and an operating system for 8-bit controllers. The idea of both is to allow civilisation to utilise and program any remaining tech more easily after the end of days.

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Undergraduate Invents New Hash Table Method

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Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate student at Rutgers University disproved a 40-year-old conjecture about the efficiency of hash tables and invented a more efficient way of accessing hash tables, partly because "Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it."

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Super Nintendo Hardware Is Getting Faster

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The ceramic resonator in the audio processing unit of the SNES is starting to run faster as it ages. The change was spotted by speed runners.

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Light Internet Chip

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Alphabet's Taara division have downsized their internet using light transmission system into a new chip that can transmit internet at speeds of 10GBps over 1km.

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Solar Everywhere For Everyone

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Power Roll have developed a new version of their flexible solar panels which can be more easily and more cheaply manufactured and "rolled out", with the aim of producing solar everywhere for everyone.

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Carbon Emissions Of An Email

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Pawprint published a post detailing that the carbon emissions of an emailImage:, as defined in Mike Berners-Lee’s book How Bad Are Bananas, is 0.3g CO2e. Adding an attachment can increase the amount of carbon emitted up to 50g CO2e.

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European Alternative Tech Products

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The European Alternatives website lists European tech products across a number of categories such as web hosting, VPNs, website analytics, and email marketing.

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3D Printed Electrospray Engine

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Researchers at MIT have developed a 3D printed electrospray engine, combining two additive printing methods, that can be manufactured in space for use in propelling small satellites.

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