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Asst Prof @NorthumbriaUni; Director @BAFTA Connect; Inventor: MABMAT; Research: @NASA @FBI; Previously: @Goal @ESPN @BleacherReport, IAG: @NUFC; IAB: @NorthumFA

Durham, England
Joined June 2009
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Launched my own space mission in May of this year too, @NASA It's currently approaching Venus. thesolivaga.com/
You can track the new space telescope's current position in real time at: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-sys…
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🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs brought people together to learn, trade software, share ideas & explore the rapidly changing world of personal computing. 💾 A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a remarkable time capsule of that world. These newsletters & many more for Atari, Apple II, Texas Instruments computers & other platforms are available in Internet Archive collections. 📚 More on. our blog: blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/… #RetroComputing
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The WorkBoy, a cancelled add-on for the Game Boy (1992)
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Happy birthday to Skynet, which became self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time on August 29, 1997!
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A typical 1980s video game screen had ~61,000 pixels. @NASARoman will capture 300 million. That’s nearly 5,000× more detail, giving scientists an unprecedented view of the universe.
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Today, Linux celebrates its 35th anniversary and the remarkable journey of one of the most influential technologies in computing history. In 1991, a young Finnish developer named Linus Torvalds purchased his first PC, powered by an Intel 386 processor. After spending time learning x86 assembly language, Linus shared publicly that he was developing a free operating system as a hobby, marking the beginning of Linux. The history of Intel and Linux runs deep, and we've had the privilege of watching it grow from a humble passion project into the world's largest open-source OS. Together with the Linux community, we've helped drive innovation across everything from PCs and data centers to cloud, edge, and AI.
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We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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Spectacular views of Sophie Adenot outside the ISS as she completes her second spacewalk alongside NASA astronaut Anil Menon.
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Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. wired.com/story/organoids-la…
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This photo was taken by the uncrewed Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23, 1966. It is the first image of Earth taken from the moon—and it set the stage for some of the most iconic space photographs ever. spklr.io/6019ER4Dd
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One giant leap for mankind History was made on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first to set foot on the Moon. For more than 5 decades, the total number of moonwalkers has remained at 12. NASA will change that with Artemis IV.
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Baby, you're a firework 🎆 This image combines data from Hubble and @ChandraXRay to show a spectacular star cluster surrounded by a vast region of dust and gas. Called NGC 3603, this star factory shines 20,000 light-years away: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/25…
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With Hubble, astronomers have learned to expect the unexpected in our universe. A new discovery shows why: Hubble detected ultraviolet light escaping from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the big bang. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4vqmrRl
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Meet Callisto, the heavily cratered moon that's the most distant of the Galilean satellites from Jupiter. Read more: buff.ly/GTwV77z
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Webb has delivered the strongest evidence yet that its discovery of mysterious Little Red Dots (LRD) are “black hole stars.” They appear starting ~600 million years after the big bang, and scientists are still working out exactly what they are. science.nasa.gov/missions/we…
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Hold my hand? In this Hubble view, two galaxies known collectively as NGC 5331 are seen just beginning to "link" their spiral arms. This galactic interaction is unfolding about 450 million light-years away, in the constellation Virgo. Read more: go.nasa.gov/4vxXL9f
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Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface.
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Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎 #OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4. WFC3 provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared! Read more: go.nasa.gov/439kDQe
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Perseverance in the Wild Martian West 🤠 Our Perseverance Mars rover snapped some photos beyond the western rim of Jezero Crater—the farthest west the rover has ever gone on the Red Planet. See what we found there: go.nasa.gov/4eNxezT
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Start your week with some new photos from Artemis II! Though our journey around the Moon has ended, we're still retrieving plenty of new images. Keep an eye on our Artemis II multimedia gallery for image highlights from the mission: go.nasa.gov/4usiN8W
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