A Singing Birthday Card Has More Power Than WWII Computers
That cheerful tune inside a musical greeting card? It’s powered by a tiny chip that outperforms the massive, room-sized computers used by all of the Allied forces during World War II.
Machines like Colossus and ENIAC were engineering marvels of their time, used to break codes and calculate artillery trajectories. But in raw computing power, they’ve been left behind—by a birthday card
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