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On 19 March 2006, following a vote, the Main Page of the English-language Wikipedia featured its first redesign in nearly two years. On 13 May 2010, the site released a new interface. New features included an updated logo, new navigation tools, and a link wizard.
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. [7] 1996 was the initial public release of GIMP (0.54). [8] [9] The editor was quickly adopted and a community of contributors formed. The community began developing tutorials and artwork and sharing ...
The first undisputed sculptures and similar art pieces, like the Venus of Hohle Fels, are the numerous objects found at the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site, where the oldest non-stationary works of human art yet discovered were found, in the form of carved animal and humanoid figurines, in addition to the ...
The first scale that genuinely calculated a magnitude for a tsunami, rather than an intensity at a particular location was the ML scale proposed by Murty & Loomis based on the potential energy. [64] Difficulties in calculating the potential energy of the tsunami mean that this scale is rarely used.
In the 20th century, the Indian Army was a crucial adjunct to the forces of the British Empire in both world wars. 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in World War I (1914–1918) with the Allies, in which 74,187 Indian troops were killed or missing in action. [24] [failed verification] In 1915 there was a mutiny by Indian soldiers in Singapore.
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. [1] [2] [3] Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software).
In March 2018, Elaine Herzberg became the first reported pedestrian killed by a self-driving car, an Uber test vehicle with a human backup driver; prosecutors did not charge Uber, while the human driver was sentenced to probation. [39] In December 2018, Waymo was the first to commercialize a robotaxi service, in Phoenix, Arizona. [40]