See the Resemblance? Surprising Family Ties in the Animal Kingdom
Generally speaking, you can look at a creature and tell if it is closely related to another animal. Wolves and dogs look alike and so do kangaroos and wallabies. But you can’t always judge a critter by its cover. Here are a few animal kingdom family ties that might just surprise you.
Seals and Bears
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How AT&T Shut Down the Development of Magnetic Tape
In 1934, Clarence Hickman, a Bell Labs engineer, invented an early telephone answering machine. The innovation that led to this machine was a revolutionary form of data storage: magnetic tape. Bell Labs ordered that the project be shelved and Hickman to end his research. Why? At Gizmodo, Tim Wu explains:
AT&T firmly believed that the answering [...]
