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He suffered from infancy but it took his parents 10 years to detect dyspraxia

He suffered from infancy but it took his parents 10 years to detect dyspraxia - a brain disorder that often made his limbs shiver making it impossible to eat noodles or go for long walks. And when his teacher asked them to send him to a "special" school after he failed a test in his 6th, 'Taare Zameen Par' had indeed arrived! By then, the boy had found a steady friend in his PC. At 8, he had mastered 'Age of Empires' and at 11, he was a gaming pro and dabbled with coding. At 15, his goal was to build something that would help parents of kids like him to detect their disorders very early. He researched and worked relentlessly for 3 years. In 2015, the 18-year-old launched 'My Child' - a free Android app. It takes just 45 seconds to know if a child is suffering from a brain, nerve, speech or physical disorder. It can correctly trace and track disorders even in babies of 11-24 months. The app's been downloaded 12000 times by users in 140 countries....
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12 of the most beautiful prisons around the world

England's Tower of London served as an operating prison from the year 1100 all the way up to 1952. It was rebuilt in the late 13th century but has stayed mostly the same ever since. Cellular Jail, located on India's Andaman Nicobar Islands, was used in the early 20th century by the British mainly to exile political dissidents who were fighting for India's independence. East Jutland State Prison opened a little over 10 years ago in Enner Mark, Denmark. Its clean, simple design masks high security, including infrared cameras, motion sensors, and fingerprint scanners. In Overloon, Netherlands, the Juvenile Pavilion youth detention center uses an open design plan and borrows the natural-wood feel of the surrounding environment to keep inmates engaged with the outside world. The Austrian prison Garsten Abbey used to function as a monastery up until 1851, at which point it began running as a prison. Its Baroque architecture makes it one of the more sophisticated-looking f...

The incredible story of Elon Musk, from getting bullied in school to becoming the most interesting man in tech.

Read more about the Tesla Model 3 here . Still, Musk hasn't been able to duck controversy this year. Musk was widely criticized for joining President Donald Trump's technological advisory councils. Ultimately, he stepped down from those councils after President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change. And, if that weren't enough, Musk also launched a new venture called Neuralink, which has a mission of implanting computers into people's brains. He sees it as a way for humans to keep up with the threat of artificial intelligence. Read more about Neuralink here . In late 2016, Musk tweeted a joke about starting a tunnel-digging venture called "The Boring Company" so he could burrow under traffic, or at least everybody thought it was a joke: The Boring Company just finished digging its first segment of tunnel under Los Angeles. Read more about The Boring Company here. That's even as Musk pushes Tesla's "Autopilot...

Who are/were some of the most badass computer programmers? [A Quora Post]

Are you a badass programmer just because you used the first mainframes? Do you think so? Well look at these big 8 who killed it…stone dead. 1. Steve Wozniak He is a nerd of computer architecture design. He created first Apple computers and coded most of the first Apple software. 2. Dave Cutler He developed many operating systems including Windows NT kernel (still partly used by Windows). 3. Richard Stallman He programmed first versions of GCC and Emacs. 4. Donald Knuth Besides literally writing the book of programming, he created TeX (a typesetting system) which is still being used and he originally created this for writing better-looking TAOCP books. 5. John Carmack He wrote the game engine for Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein games only by himself. He also used a square root algorithm faster than respective machine instruction 6. Anders Hejlsberg He created Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C# languages. 7. Bjarne Stroustrup He implemented first version of C++, Computer Science Chairman at Texas A...