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Hyperloop Technologies CEO Ahlborn claims his engineers have made serious progress on the transportation system. “We have solved all the technical issues,” he says. They know how to make pods levitate, maintain the necessary air pressure within the tube, and accelerate human beings to frightening speeds—and, more importantly—bring them to stop. None of this has been tested in public, but Ahlborn says he’ll have a prototype system under construction in California or Slovakia by the end of the year.

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The 2016 film "Hidden Figures" tells the story of a group of African American women who were "computers" (people who computed numbers) for NASA. In a time before the computers that we know today, these (mostly) women took on the task of calculating the complex numbers that allowed our first astronauts to travel in space. In 1822, Charles Babbage conceived of (but never built) a steam powered machine that could compute numbers; It would take more than a century until the first mechanical computer was actually created. In 1946, the ENIAC was built - it took 1800 square feet to house it. In the meantime, human beings were used to calculate numbers - and they mostly included female mathematicians, who were considered more suited to routine tasks. (Yes, discrimination against women didn't only include the lack of equal pay and the inability to vote!) Of course, you're looking at this from your desktop computer, your laptop - or even more likely your phone. These are photos of some of the early "computers" from the past - people who used machines that are radically different from what we know today. The advantage of these computers? Before the internet, they couldn't be hacked! Discover what computers looked like in the past: the evolution from human calculators through the introduction of early modern computer technology

Women used to do all of the “computing” in the old days. Now we have machines to do the work! See the evolution of what is now a part of your everyday life - the evolution of computer technology.