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Cosmology

The universe as a whole, reconstructed from very old light.

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Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble didn’t reveal the universe—it re-calibrated every distance ladder we use to describe it.

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James Webb Space Telescope

Infrared astronomy isn’t a compromise — it’s the only way to see the universe’s first light, and Webb delivers it without visible-light trade-offs.

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Crucial

Crucial was the brand under which Micron Technology sold its consumer memory and storage products, until the brand was discontinued in 2026.

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Personal computer

A personal computer is a computer designed for personal use and operated directly by its user, rather than shared through time-sharing on a mainframe or minicomputer.

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Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is a hardware interface, developed by Intel with Apple, that carries PCI Express, DisplayPort and power over a single cable to connect external peripherals to a computer.

9:46

Silicon Graphics built the first practical hardware-accelerated 3D graphics systems. Its Geometry Engine — designed at Stanford under ARPA — delivered ~6 million geometry operations per second. It pioneered scalable cc-NUMA architectures in the mid-1990s. But its reliance on proprietary MIPS and failed transitions to Itanium and Xeon eroded its position as PC graphics commoditised. It filed for bankruptcy in 2009.