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A global memorial for the activist Aaron Swartz

Massimo Luciani January 15, 2013 0

After the activist Aaron Swartz took his own life on January 11, 2013 an international mobilization started to remember but also for someone to have some justice because they believe he’s been treated unfairly.

A new web site for the Dead Sea Scrolls

Massimo Luciani December 19, 2012 0

A little more than a year ago a collaboration between Google and the Israel Museum allowed putting on line five Dead Sea Scrolls. Now the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has launched the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a new site that is home to about 5,000 images of fragments of those scrolls for a total of more than 900 manuscripts in a quality never seen before.

Google opens Google+ Communities

Massimo Luciani December 7, 2012 0

Google has announced the opening of the Google+ Communities, the new section of the Mountain View company’s social network equivalent to the Facebook groups where people can meet to discuss a common interest.

The cabinet version of the videogame Pong

40 years ago Atari announced the video game Pong

Massimo Luciani November 29, 2012 1

On November 29, 1972, Atari announced the release of the videogame Pong, a ping-pong simulator that became a milestone in the history of video games.

Doom 3 BFG Edition graphics engine released as free software

Massimo Luciani November 27, 2012 1

About a year after the release of the source code of the original version of Doom 3’s graphics engine and only a few weeks after the Doom 3 BFG Edition, which contains Doom, Doom ][, Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil expansion pack together to 7 new levels titled “The Lost Mission” was published, the source code of the BFG Edition was released as well.