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When we think of important historical discoveries, many of us probably imagine big archaeological finds, such as the LiDAR-assisted discovery of two mountain cities in eastern Uzbekistan in 2024. But ...

Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

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Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...

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Before the 1975 release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the British comedy troupe Monty Python was barely known overseas. People in Britain knew the group, made up of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, ...

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix version 2 release from 1972. The backstory is incredible. Now, however, forensic code researcher Yufeng ...

Berlin: Kateryna Gornostai's portrait of Ukrainian students and the teachers who try to keep educating them feels like a vital historical document. That line of thinking is an understandable ...