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By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team · Sep 21, 2026

Christopher Latham Sholes, the printer and Wisconsin state senator who designed the QWERTY keyboard, was appointed…

Sep 21 Why did the QWERTY keyboard, arranged in the 1870s to stop mechanical typebars from jamming, outlast every layout… How It Works
Sep 18 Pixel 3 Night Sight can capture a photo in near-darkness because it doesn't take one picture How It Works
Sep 17 Screens use red, green and blue because human retinas carry only three types of colour-sensing cones, tuned near those… How It Works
Sep 16 Voyager 1 is over 15.8 billion miles from Earth and its generators lose about four watts of power every year Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Sep 14 When you delete a file from a traditional hard drive, the operating system usually removes the pointer to it How It Works
Sep 14 The Gulf Offshore Research Institute has been awarded $20 million to turn idle Gulf oil platforms into hubs for energy… How It Works
Sep 10 How did a metal box first secured to a converted tanker in April 1956 cut ocean freight loading costs by more than 90… How It Works
Sep 9 In December 2014, Google introduced a reCAPTCHA checkbox that let many users skip distorted letters while the system… How It Works
Sep 8 Microsoft didn't just stop shipping Flash with Windows 10 Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Sep 7 A phone knows which way is up because a silicon chip smaller than a grain of rice contains tiny cantilever beams that… How It Works
Sep 7 The first GIF ever made was a picture of an airplane Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Sep 4 Kishi Station in Wakayama Prefecture was destaffed in April 2006 to cut costs, then handed over the following year to a… How It Works
Sep 3 The ROICE program at the University of Houston started in 2022 as a thought experiment about what to do with thousands… How It Works
Sep 2 Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012 and still transmits from more than 24 billion kilometres away… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Sep 1 How did a phone game released in July 2016 briefly double foot traffic to small businesses near landmarks, and why did… How It Works
Aug 31 End-to-end encryption hides what you said, but metadata the app or carrier may still hold How It Works
Aug 21 How does a fibre-optic strand thinner than a spaghetti noodle carry a signal across 13,000 kilometres of ocean without… How It Works
Aug 20 Wi-Fi signals struggle through walls not because concrete is thick, but because water in the plaster absorbs 2.4 GHz… How It Works
Aug 20 Voyager 1 is now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth, and its transmitter runs on about 22 watts Make Tech Easier Editorial Team