On This Day in Tech History

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Historic Tech Events

Microsoft launched the Xbox game console

Microsoft launched the Xbox game console

2001

The Xbox, Microsoft’s first entry into the world of console electronic gaming, was released in 2001, which placed it in direct competition with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Nintendo’s GameCube.

The first Fairtrade label was launched in the Netherlands

The first Fairtrade label was launched in the Netherlands

1988

Solidaridad founded the Max Havelaar Foundation in 1988, thus launching the first fair trade label for sustainable coffee. Its successful launch in the Netherlands helped to spark the global fair trade movement.

Intel's First Microprocessor was Released

Intel's First Microprocessor was Released

1971

Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

Stories Published in 2025

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#MODEL-CONTEXT-PROTOCOL

98% of MCP Servers Got This Wrong: The Reason Why the Protocol Never Worked

November 15, 2025

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#HUMANOID-ROBOTS

WEF Experts: Walking, Talking Robots Are Just Five Years Away

November 15, 2025

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How to Add Real-Time Web Search to Your LLM

Manish Shivanandhan

Manish Shivanandhan

November 15, 2025

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#HACKERNOON-NEWSLETTER

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Zero to Shipped Framework for New Developers (11/15/2025)

November 15, 2025

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Everything You Need to Know About XML Schema Validation 1.1 in Java

Nicolas Fränkel

Nicolas Fränkel

November 15, 2025

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Here's How You Can Cut Milliseconds Off Your Response Time Using Symfony

November 15, 2025

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Storing JSON and XML in SQL Databases: An Essential Guide

November 15, 2025

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The TechBeat: Stop the Slop. Start Coding Smarter with AI (11/15/2025)

November 15, 2025

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Evaluating Visual Adapters: MIVPG Performance on Single and Multi-Image Inputs

November 15, 2025

Stories Published in 2024

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Here's Why It Is What It Is

November 15, 2024

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How to Learn Web Development: HTML, CSS, MERN, and Python - 22 GitHub Repositories to Help You

Bonaventure Ogeto

Bonaventure Ogeto

November 15, 2024

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The Trick That Agentic Frameworks Pulled On Us

tyingshoelaces.com

tyingshoelaces.com

November 15, 2024

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#TIPS-AND-TRICKS

Web Scraping Optimization: Tips for Faster, Smarter Scrapers

November 15, 2024

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

The Top React UI Components

November 15, 2024

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#DATA-AUGMENTATION

Testing ADA on Synthetic and Real-World Data

November 15, 2024

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Java Backend Observability with OpenTelemetry Traces and Minimal Code

Dmitriy Apanasevich

Dmitriy Apanasevich

November 15, 2024

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#DATA-AUGMENTATION

How Hyperparameter Tuning Enhances Anchor Data Augmentation for Robust Regression

November 15, 2024

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#DATA-AUGMENTATION

ADA: A Powerful Data Augmentation Technique for Improved Regression Robustness

November 15, 2024

Stories Published in 2023

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Serverless Computing and DevOps: The Future of Cloud Deployment

November 15, 2023

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Beyond Transformers: The Overlooked Potential of Reinforcement Learning

November 15, 2023

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#EMAIL-SECURITY

Google & Yahoo Email Senders Must Authenticate Emails by Feb 2024

November 15, 2023

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Fox Infotech: Your One-Stop Hub for Programming Tutorials

November 15, 2023

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THE MEETING IN BRUTON STREET.

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

November 15, 2023

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Unveiling the Power of PM and P3M Algorithms on GPUs

Aleksei Ozeritskii

Aleksei Ozeritskii

November 15, 2023

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PROGRESS OF IRON MAKING

Scientific American

Scientific American

November 15, 2023

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Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX. No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878, by Various - Table of Links

Best Public Domain Books For Learning Technology, via HackerNoon

Best Public Domain Books For Learning Technology, via HackerNoon

November 15, 2023

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How I Received 3 Front End Engineer Offers in a Tough Market as a Non-CS Graduate

November 15, 2023

Stories Published in 2022

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The Coming of Bliriot

November 15, 2022

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How Startups Can Stay on Top of Their Cash Flow

November 15, 2022

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Social Media Breakthrough: Yet Another Reason to Get Paid For Watching the Feed

November 15, 2022

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#TARGET-AUDIENCE

4 Tips to Identify Your Target Audience

November 15, 2022

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#ASTOUNDING-STORIES

Chapter III: The Ape-Men of Xlotli

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories

November 15, 2022

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#ASTOUNDING-STORIES

Chapter VI: The Atom-Smasher

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories

November 15, 2022

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Using JavaScript to Create and Generate UUIDs

November 15, 2022

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The Definitive Web3 Glossary (2022)

November 15, 2022

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#ASTOUNDING-STORIES

The Sunken Empire

Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories

November 15, 2022

Stories Published in 2021

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Why is it so Hard to Find a PS5 for Sale?

November 15, 2021

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Tackling Environmental Issues with Software: How Remote GPU Reduces the Impact of GPUs

November 15, 2021

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Technology has Brought New Innovations to How Art is Made, Displayed, and Sold

November 15, 2021

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Interview with Anndy Lian: Views on 2022 Cryptocurrency Adoption - What Is Coming Next

November 15, 2021

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#NOONIES-NOMINEES

"There is no Failure, only Feedback" with 5x Noonies Winner Christian Kameir

Christian Kameir

Christian Kameir

November 15, 2021

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#MICROMANAGEMENT

Trust and the Remote Workforce [Infographic]

November 15, 2021

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The Comparison of Top 10 Automated Mobile Testing Tools

November 15, 2021

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#CRYPTOCURRENCY

SperaxUSD: A Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoin Challenging Tether

Cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies

November 15, 2021

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#BUSINESS-STRATEGY

How GoPro Became a Victim of Bad Business Strategy

November 15, 2021

Stories Published in 2020

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What Startup Entrepreneur With A Non-Tech Background Should Know About Android

November 15, 2020

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Deploying a Django Project to PythonAnywhere - A How-To Guide

November 15, 2020

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Crypto Exchanges Need a More Holistic Approach to Security

November 15, 2020

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13 Ways to Traverse a Tree: Recursion vs Iteration

Your Coding Teacher

Your Coding Teacher

November 15, 2020

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Ant Financial: Controversies around the Biggest IPO in History

November 15, 2020

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A Fistful of Coins - Market Making Fundamentals And How We Make It Fair And Square

November 15, 2020

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The True Impact Of The US Election On The Global Financial Markets: An Analysis

Black Mamba Ventures

Black Mamba Ventures

November 15, 2020

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#CHAOS-ENGINEERING

Chaos Engineering: What You Don't Know

November 15, 2020

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MACD and power of Histogram

November 15, 2020

Stories Published in 2019

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Why You Shouldn’t Write Vanilla CSS

Ermin Cahtarevic

Ermin Cahtarevic

November 15, 2019

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#DESIGN-MISTAKES

Crucial Mobile UI/UX Design Mistakes to Avoid at Any Cost

November 15, 2019

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Three Practical Steps to Saving Your Startup's Resources

November 15, 2019

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Let AI Monitor and Improve Your Online Reputation

November 15, 2019

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLINGENCE

The Future of Human In The Loop

November 15, 2019

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The Grand Cluster Hotel

Yehia "Yaya" Khoja

Yehia "Yaya" Khoja

November 15, 2019

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Mobile Application Development Trends In 2020

Taras Tymoshchuck

Taras Tymoshchuck

November 15, 2019

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6 User Story Mistakes That Cause Confusion During Product Development

November 15, 2019

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6 Business Technology Trends in 2020

November 15, 2019

Stories Published in 2018

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#PRODUCT-MANAGEMENT

Why Don’t They Trust Us?

November 15, 2018

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14 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Extend their Runway to Go the Distance

Etienne Garbugli

Etienne Garbugli

November 15, 2018

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Building a startup in 24 Hours — the #24hrstartup Movement

November 15, 2018

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Israel’s IP Problem

November 15, 2018

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Shrimpy-Institutional Platform Release

November 15, 2018

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#CONTINUOUS-INTEGRATION

Move fast and find out when you break things

November 15, 2018

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Rethinking Anti-Phishing Security For iPhone Email

November 15, 2018

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Set up ESLint in Atom

November 15, 2018

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#WEB-DEVELOPMENT

Blocks, Not Pages, Are the Future Of the Web

November 15, 2018

Stories Published in 2017

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#ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE

Future Of Work With AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

November 15, 2017

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Defining the “Personal CRM”

November 15, 2017

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Markdown, Code Blocks and Beyond: Lightweight diagramming with PlantUML

November 15, 2017

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Announcing CodeSandbox 2.0

Ives van Hoorne

Ives van Hoorne

November 15, 2017

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#MACHINE-LEARNING

Contribute to the AI Consulting Contract

November 15, 2017

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Participating in Product Hunt Global Hackathon — Days 13 and 14

Kristian Ivanov

Kristian Ivanov

November 15, 2017

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The Trouble With Scrum

November 15, 2017

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Health Hacks for Tech Specialists

November 15, 2017

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Sending HTML email using Go

Mohamed Labouardy

Mohamed Labouardy

November 15, 2017

Stories Published in 2016

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How to write Atomic (design) CSS with Sass in Angular2

November 15, 2016

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Escaping black holes on the Internet

November 15, 2016

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How an obscure 80s video game won the Nobel Prize

Dr James Wootton

Dr James Wootton

November 15, 2016

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New Responsive App Demo Experience

November 15, 2016

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Should Early Stage Startups Adopt Microservices?

November 15, 2016

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Building a simple offline-capable Notepad app using ServiceWorker

November 15, 2016

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Introducing the Search Grader by Algolia

Liam Boogar-Azoulay

Liam Boogar-Azoulay

November 15, 2016

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Weekly Techstars Diversity / Inclusion Office Hours in New York City

November 15, 2016

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Do you like to ADB?

Nishant Srivastava

Nishant Srivastava

November 15, 2016

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