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Google Testing Journeys Search Feature to Group Your Browsing

Google wants to help you retain your searches. It’s testing the Journeys search feature that will group your like-minded Google searches.

By Laura Tucker – Oct 4, 2021

How to Load Additional Web Pages in Firefox Sidebar

Did you know that Firefox lets you open web pages on the left side to keep up with its information? Here’s how to load web pages in the Firefox sidebar.

By Karrar Haider – May 10, 2016

How to Launch Apps from Sidebar on Your Android Device

Glovebox is an Android app that lets you launch apps from the sidebar of your device. If you’re curious to see how it works, keep on reading!

By Mahesh Makvana – Oct 17, 2015

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

A person using a smartphone with a green screen surrounded by fresh fruits and vegetables in the kitchen.

When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

Starry night with radio towers and the Milky Way galaxy visible overhead.

When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

Jun 9, 2026

Close-up of a smartphone highlighting its modern design on a dark background.

The original iPhone Steve Jobs unveiled in January 2007 could not record video, could not copy and paste text, could not run a single third-party app, and could only reach the internet over 2G — and Jobs spent ninety minutes on stage at Macworld arguing, one missing feature at a time, that every absence was actually a design decision.

Jun 9, 2026

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