33:45invention of the blue ledDocumentary
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
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58:05console hardware securityTalk
Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft
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33:33light bulb lifespan tradeoffsExplainer
Longer-lasting light bulbs: it was complicated
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26:29electricity and signal propagationExplainer
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
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27:13robust-first computingDemo
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50:09electromechanical pinball machinesExplainer
Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
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20:29data center tourDocumentary
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The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
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