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May 2026
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When the Apollo 11 astronauts came back, they had to sign a customs declaration on landing in Hawaii — the cargo listed as "moon rock and moon dust samples," with the departure point given as the Moon
Tech Explained
In 2023 a single corrupted bit of code sent Voyager 1 into months of unintelligible static, and a team of engineers — many of them retired, called back specifically because no one else understood the system — managed to locate the fault and revive a spacecraft 24 billion kilometres away
Computing
The first computer bug was a literal moth, pulled out of a relay in a Harvard computer in 1947 and taped into the logbook with the note "first actual case of bug being found" — and the logbook is still preserved at the Smithsonian
Gadgets
Apple has quietly become the largest watchmaker in the world by unit sales, shipping more than twice as many watches as the entire Swiss industry combined — but the Swiss industry, which dismissed the Apple Watch in 2015, has discovered something more interesting: they've held onto the high end, and Rolex alone is now closing in on Apple Watch by revenue
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