Luke Farritor, computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is $40,000 richer after deciphering a snippet of text from the Herculaneum scrolls as part of the Vesuvius Challenge. Farritor was able to accomplish this using a fairly ancient, at least by gamer standards, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. Even though this GPU was released

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GPU Used To Decipher An Ancient Roman Scroll Scores Student A Huge Prize