Here is everything you need to know. The QR code was first invented in 1994 by Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara. At the time, he was working at Denso Wave, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation.

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Who invented Bitcoin? That question has become a captivating mystery for the digital age along the lines of whatever happened to D.B. Cooper or who was Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.

that can change the strength of their connections with a learning algorithm that Hopfield invented. That algorithm was inspired by work from physics that finds the energy of a magnetic system by ...