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Submission + - First Computer Music from 1951 Restored (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by BoxRec on Saturday October 01, 2016 @07:06PM

BoxRec writes: Alan Turing was part of a team who created the earliest known recording of music produced by a computer. It starts with a few bars of "God Save the Queen", a snippet of Baa Baa Black Sheep and then Glenn Miller's swing hit In The Mood.

Submission + - World's first colour moving pictures discovered (bbc.co.uk)

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BoxRec

on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @01:28PM

BoxRec writes: "The BBC is reporting newly-discovered films made by pioneer Edward Raymond Turner from London who patented his colour process on 22 March 1899."

Submission + - Chocolate 3D Printer (bbc.co.uk)

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BoxRec

on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @02:46PM

BoxRec writes: "Scientists in England have developed a 3D chocolate printer. "Now we have an opportunity to combine chocolate with digital technology, including the design, digital manufacturing and social networking. Chocolate has a lot of social purpose, so our intention is to develop a community and share the designs, ideas and experience about it.""

Submission + - Wikipedia ordered to reveal identity of 'editor' (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by BoxRec on Thursday December 03, 2009 @10:28AM

BoxRec writes: A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry.

In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users.

Read more: Daily Mail

Submission + - UK space launch set back

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BoxRec

on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @07:42AM

BoxRec writes: "Problems have arisen with the latest UK space launch to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. According to a BBC report the 300lb payload of cheese has disappeared from the radar screens somewhere over southern England."

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