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Catholic Church Sets 15-Year-Old Programmer on the Path to Sainthood
There are a lot of candidates for the most cyberpunk event of 2020. How about a drive-thru strip club with gas masks to protect the dancers from a pandemic? Or maybe covid-19 testing sites sponsored by Pepsi. Or a president shifting his duties to social media as he’s quarantined with an infectious disease. The list…
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How A Giant Replica Of The Vatican Ended Up In A Small African City
Construction on the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church on earth, started 28 years ago in the small Ivory Coast city of Yamoussoukro. Planned by then-president Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who led the country through two decades of economic boomtime known as the “Ivorian miracle”, the church would be a monument —…
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Inside The Sistine Chapel’s Security Tech For The Papal Election
Tomorrow, the Sistine Chapel will fill with cardinals who will spend hours — or days — deciding who should be elected as the next Pope. While they do so, the Sistine chapel will be filled with electronic jammers and swept for bugs to ensure no information is leaked.
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Holy iPods!
The Vatican’s lending iPods to pilgrims touring the Catholic church’s stomping ground. The aim is twofold: On one hand, it’ll lower noise brought on by yapping tour guides; on the other, they hope to attract younger members of the faith.