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Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
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The Make Tech Easier Editorial Team produces content on tech tutorials, software guides, and practical solutions for everyday computing problems. We work alongside our team of named tech writers whose individual bylines appear on their work. Articles under this byline reflect collective editorial work. Make Tech Easier takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial guidelines.
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- + Tech Explained When YouTube launched in April 2005, its first video was a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front… Aug 11, 2026
- + Tech Explained The JPEG format was finalised in 1992 by a committee that met for six years to agree on how much visual information a… Aug 11, 2026
- + Tech Explained How did one music video expose YouTube’s 32-bit ceiling at 2,147,483,647 views in late 2014 without actually breaking… Aug 3, 2026
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- Jul 31, 2026 When you type an address into a browser, your computer asks a DNS resolver for the site's numeric address, and the… + Tech Explained
- Jul 31, 2026 How did a guidance computer with 4 kilobytes of memory, less than a modern greeting card chip, land Apollo 11 on the… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 In 1947, Harvard’s Mark II ran on roughly 13,000 electromechanical relays, stored numbers across 100 registers, and… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 How did a single computer worm written by a Cornell graduate student in November 1988 crash roughly 6,000 machines and… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 When you tilt a smartphone, gravity shifts microscopic silicon fingers inside its accelerometer by only a few… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 A microwave oven works because water molecules have a slight positive and negative end + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 The retina of the mantis shrimp carries twelve types of colour receptor to the human eye's three + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 When a lightning return stroke heats a channel only centimetres wide to roughly 30,000 kelvin, about five times the… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 In October 1957, a beachball-sized aluminium sphere called Sputnik 1 began sending 0.3-second pulses on two radio… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 In 1968, Douglas Engelbart sat before roughly 1,000 computing professionals in San Francisco and demonstrated the… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 How did a 1956 shipping container standardised at 8 by 8 by 20 feet cut cargo loading costs from about $5.83 a tonne to… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 Content and cloud networks now account for three-quarters of used international bandwidth, while Google, Meta… + Internet
- Jul 27, 2026 In 1987, a year after the breakthrough that revived high-temperature superconductivity, physicists cooled a ceramic of… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 GPS satellites tick about 38 microseconds a day faster than clocks on Earth + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 Every year about 27.7 million tonnes of Saharan dust cross the Atlantic on the trade winds, and NASA's CALIPSO… + Tech Explained
- Jul 27, 2026 A CAPTCHA no longer asks whether you can read wobbly letters + Tech Explained