For the first time, an entire word and several letters have been decoded from a scorched and carbonized scroll that barely survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius' in A.D. 79. That word — πορφύραc in ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival ...

When the En-Gedi scrolls were excavated from an ancient synagogue’s Holy Ark in the 1970s, it was a bittersweet discovery for archaeologists. Though the texts provided further evidence for an ancient ...

Circle to Search is now getting a big boost, as it allows continuous translation while you scroll on your Pixel phones.

Google now has the scroll-to-text feature for sitelinks in the Google Search results. Google launched these with featured snippets in 2020 but has been testing it since 2018, and it seems to now work ...

PowerPoint does much more than just display text and pictures. It's filled with tricks and tidbits so you can do nearly anything, like create a scrollable text box. If you've got too much text to fit ...

For the first time, advanced technologies made it possible to read parts of a damaged scroll that is at least 1,500 years old, discovered inside the Holy Ark of the synagogue at Ein Gedi in Israel.

The project is being controlled by AVR AT90S2313 to produce a display built of 50×7 LEDs that illustrates the effect of scrolling text. The computer is using the serial RS232 port to send the text or ...

A collection of Dead Sea Scroll fragments, once thought to be blank and "relatively worthless," have been kept in boxes at The University of Manchester in England for over two decades. A professor ...

The report from J.C. Stauttener was unusual. He had received the Dutch translation of TidBITS in email every week for years, but in the last few months, when he opened one, he wouldn’t be able to ...