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16 January 2026

Fact of the day: It was on this day in 1909 that the expedition of the British explorer Ernest Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.

Quote: I do not think that this \'transistor\' can ever be worth the immense development cost that has gone into it. It cannot be mass produced and will never be able to handle more than very small signal levels. Dr. Thomas James (1949)

Point to ponder: The novelist Arthur C Clarke first postulated the idea of geostationary satellites in an article in Wireless World in 1945.He postulated that three satellites would give complete coverage of the globe. In terms of the coverage he was correct, but he had n

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