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- May 28, 2026 In the early 1970s, a phone phreak nicknamed "Captain Crunch" became famous for a startling trick + Tech Explained
- May 28, 2026 Sony's PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly… + Gaming
- May 28, 2026 When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes's… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 The legendary video game Pac-Man doesn't actually have an ending—instead, a single 8-bit integer overflow bug causes… + Gaming
- May 27, 2026 When Microsoft was developing Windows 95, developers discovered that SimCity had a severe memory bug that caused it to… + Windows
- May 27, 2026 When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe that it… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and… + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with onboard computers holding less memory than a single photo on a modern phone + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 Most astronauts are trained for the science of spaceflight, but many come home changed by something nobody can fully… + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 People who turn off phone notifications aren’t avoiding connection + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 For decades, marine biologists have tracked a lone whale in the North Pacific known as "52 Blue" because it calls at a… + Lifestyle
- May 27, 2026 In 2020, Philipp Heck’s team dated forty presolar grains from Australia’s Murchison meteorite and found stardust as old… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 On 15 September 2017, NASA engineers deliberately steered the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn's atmosphere at 70,000… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 When Konrad Zuse switched on the Z3 in his Berlin workshop in May 1941, he had just built the first programmable… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 At Kyoto University's Seto Marine Biological Laboratory on the Shirahama coast, biologist Shin Kubota has watched the… + Tech Explained
- May 27, 2026 In August 1993, Garry Trudeau spent a week turning Apple's new Newton MessagePad into a Doonesbury joke, including a… + Tech Explained
- May 26, 2026 In 1945, Ruth Bourne was one of the young Wrens operating more than 100 Bombe machines at Eastcote, phoning in good… + Tech Explained
- May 26, 2026 In 2022, NASA engineers in Pasadena watched a new image come down from Perseverance and saw a small heap of broken… + Tech Explained
- May 26, 2026 Astronauts who spend more than six months in orbit tend to return with the same change in how they see Earth + Lifestyle