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TechnologySuresnes’s Record Baguette and Its Moving Oven
French bakers produced a 140.53-metre baguette at Suresnes on 5 May 2024. A moving oven turned an everyday baking process into an engineering problem, while keeping the finished loaf in one piece.
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TechnologyThe First Public Cultivated-Beef Burger Tasting in London
On 5 August 2013, a London presentation put cultivated beef into a frying pan and before food tasters. Mark Post’s Maastricht team demonstrated animal muscle grown from cells, in a prototype whose development cost dwarfed any ordinary lunch.
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TechnologyWii launches in North America with Wii Sports
Nintendo’s Wii arrived in North America on 19 November 2006 with Wii Sports in its launch package. Tennis made the idea immediately visible: a player could swing a small remote instead of learning a complicated sequence of buttons.
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TechnologyYouTube’s first video, Me at the zoo, is uploaded
Jawed Karim uploaded Me at the zoo on 23 April 2005. Its brief elephant commentary became a memorable opening to a platform built around ordinary people making and sharing videos.
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