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Did you know that your brain reads faster than your eye? We humans store learned words and so just a few letters are enough to recognize whole words.

Source: Faster. Better. More focused. Reading.

After the latest update, Google Chrome right-click ‘Search Google for’ opening in side panel instead of new tab. Here’s how to disable it.

Source: Chrome ‘Search Google for’ opens in side panel instead of new tab

45 years ago, Radio Shack released the TRS-80 Micro Computer System, a 1977 personal computer that launched an era of low-cost PCs along with computers from Apple and Commodore. Here’s what was special about it.

Source: Radio Shack’s First PC: 45 Years of TRS-80

It’s been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari, which brought video games to the mainstream. To celebrate, we asked Bushnell what he learned during the early years—and what we’ve lost sight of since then.

Source: “Atari Was Very, Very Hard” Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later

Produced by a small team, and lost to the sands of time… until now.

Source: Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s.

Thirty years ago today, id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, a thrilling first-person shooter game set during World War II. It broke new ground for action-based PC games and continued a string of growing successes for id Software. With help from John Carmack, John Romero, and Tom Hall, we’ll take a look at what made it special.

Source: Achtung! How Wolfenstein 3D Shocked the World, 30 Years Later

How the search for an unknown master photographer led to a ghostly trove of images and down a hall of mirrors

Source: The Uncanny Tale of Shimmel Zohar