Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

1948 was an interesting time for computing. For decades, businesses had used punch card equipment that added and sorted electromechanically. Now these electromechanical relays and counting wheels were being used to build room-filling general-purpose computers such as Harvard Mark I (1944) and IBM's SSEC (1948). But slow electromechanical mechanisms were already becoming obsolete. World War II had…

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Mapping

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    • terminal=yes to consistently map freight terminals and better describe connected transport modes and handled cargo.

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  • A new MapRoulette challenge in Germany…
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Barrister Salman Safdar meets Imran at Adiala jail, says PTI founder’s ‘eye complication continues’

ISLAMABAD: Barrister Salman Safdar on Thursday met PTI founder Imran Khan at Adiala jail, a day after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) directed authorities to arrange the meeting.

However, the lawyer departed from the premises without sharing any details with the media.

Meanwhile, PTI information secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram said that Imran had directed the party to postpone its public meeting…

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New Analyses: EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks

The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center for Food Safety analyzed the level of risk the EPA permitted for both currently…

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Imran undergoes third eye procedure at Pims

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf founder Imran Khan underwent a third eye procedure at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Monday.

In a statement issued by the hospital, the PTI founder was brought to Pims for a third dose of an anti-VEGF intra-vitreal injection.

He remained vitally stable before, during and after the procedure.

A senior doctor at Pims with knowledge of the…

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Islamabad advocate general asked to facilitate Aitzaz Ahsan’s power of attorney for Imran

• Petition before IHC relates to appeal against conviction in Toshakhana case
• Latif Khosa asked to assist the court with relevant jail rules at the next hearing

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Advocate General Islamabad to facilitate the signing of the power of attorney of senior lawyer Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan by the founder of PTI, Imran Khan, through the…

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Pims says Imran’s vision has improved ‘remarkably’ as he undergoes another checkup

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) said on Tuesday night that PTI founder Imran Khan was examined at Adiala jail for the follow-up treatment of his eye ailment, which showed that his vision had “improved remarkably”.

However, the party asserted that any medical examination carried out without the presence of Imran’s personal physicians and his immediate family lacked…

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TTAP says extending protest at Parliament House till Tuesday to ‘see govt response’ to call for access to Imran

ISLAMABAD: The opposition decided on Monday to extend its sit-in at the Parliament House till Tuesday — one of the two court-mandated days for meeting incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan — to “see the government’s response” to their call for allowing access to the former premier.

Imran’s family and associates had been barred from visiting him for several weeks until the Supreme Court’s…

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TTAP, PTI sit-in enters fourth day; roads leading to Parliament House cleared

ISLAMABAD: Roads leading to the Parliament House were cleared on Monday morning as the PTI and opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz-i-Ayeen Pakistan (TTAP)’s sit-in over Imran’s health entered its fourth day.

The sit-in, which began on Friday, was announced hours after the Supreme Court (SC) was _informed_ that only 15 per cent vision was left in the PTI founder’s right eye, prompting a strong…

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