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  • 30 Years Later, The Max Headroom TV Hackers Remain At Large

    30 Years Later, The Max Headroom TV Hackers Remain At Large

    For 25 seconds in 1987, in the middle of WGN-TV anchor Dan Roan’s sportscast, thousands of Chicagoans’ feeds were replaced with a low analogue whine and the eery image of a masked man nodding over and over as if in a state of mania. “If you’re wondering what’s happened, so am I,” Roan said to…


  • Happy Birthday Ames! Awesome Photos From 75 Years Of Aerospace Research

    Happy Birthday Ames! Awesome Photos From 75 Years Of Aerospace Research

    On the 20th of December, 1939, the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was founded. The facility at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California, would later be known as NASA’s Ames Research Center after the founding chairman of NACA, Joseph S. Ames — but no one could foresee how iconic Ames would…