The first voice assistant, a system called HARPY, could understand spoken words to perform tasks like making airline reservations, but only in a very controlled environment and with limited vocabulary. elaborate
Andy Serkis, famous for his motion capture performances as Gollum and Caesar, initially trained as a stage actor. elaborate
The first operating system, General Motors' GM-NAA I/O, was developed in the late 1950s and ran on an IBM 704. elaborate
Susan Wojcicki's garage was the original headquarters of Google. elaborate
The first computer bug was a real bug—a moth found trapped in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947. It was taped into the logbook with the note "First actual case of bug being found." elaborate
The term "user interface" (UI) was first used in the context of computer science in the late 1970s, significantly later than the actual development of graphical user interfaces. elaborate
The CRISPR babies, Lulu and Nana, were born in China in 2018, making them the first gene-edited humans. elaborate