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- Sep 24, 2026 A 12-year-old in Silicon Valley asked his parents how blind people read, was told to go Google it, and built a braille… + Tech Explained
- Sep 24, 2026 The computer driving NASA's Perseverance rover across Mars is a $200,000 version of the chip from the 1998 iMac… + Computing
- Sep 24, 2026 Every morning in the city next door to Silicon Valley, staff load three 5.25-inch floppy disks to boot the computers… + Computing
- Sep 24, 2026 Microsoft sealed hundreds of servers in a nitrogen-filled cylinder and sank it 117 feet to the seabed off Scotland's… + Computing
- Sep 22, 2026 When you type bbc.com, the browser may trigger several invisible network exchanges + Tech Explained
- Sep 21, 2026 Christopher Latham Sholes, the printer and Wisconsin state senator who designed the QWERTY keyboard, was appointed… + Tech Explained
- Sep 21, 2026 Why did the QWERTY keyboard, arranged in the 1870s to stop mechanical typebars from jamming, outlast every layout… + Tech Explained
- Sep 18, 2026 Pixel 3 Night Sight can capture a photo in near-darkness because it doesn't take one picture + Tech Explained
- Sep 17, 2026 Screens use red, green and blue because human retinas carry only three types of colour-sensing cones, tuned near those… + Tech Explained
- Sep 16, 2026 Voyager 1 is over 15.8 billion miles from Earth and its generators lose about four watts of power every year + Tech Explained
- Sep 14, 2026 When you delete a file from a traditional hard drive, the operating system usually removes the pointer to it + Tech Explained
- Sep 14, 2026 The Gulf Offshore Research Institute has been awarded $20 million to turn idle Gulf oil platforms into hubs for energy… + Tech Explained
- Sep 10, 2026 How did a metal box first secured to a converted tanker in April 1956 cut ocean freight loading costs by more than 90… + Tech Explained
- Sep 9, 2026 In December 2014, Google introduced a reCAPTCHA checkbox that let many users skip distorted letters while the system… + Tech Explained
- Sep 8, 2026 Microsoft didn't just stop shipping Flash with Windows 10 + Tech Explained
- Sep 7, 2026 A phone knows which way is up because a silicon chip smaller than a grain of rice contains tiny cantilever beams that… + Tech Explained
- Sep 7, 2026 The first GIF ever made was a picture of an airplane + Tech Explained