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• Sep 4, 2026 Kishi Station in Wakayama Prefecture was destaffed in April 2006 to cut costs, then handed over the following year to a… + Tech Explained
• Sep 3, 2026 The ROICE program at the University of Houston started in 2022 as a thought experiment about what to do with thousands… + Tech Explained
• Sep 2, 2026 Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012 and still transmits from more than 24 billion kilometres away… + Tech Explained
• Sep 1, 2026 How did a phone game released in July 2016 briefly double foot traffic to small businesses near landmarks, and why did… + Tech Explained
• Aug 31, 2026 End-to-end encryption hides what you said, but metadata the app or carrier may still hold + Tech Explained
• Aug 21, 2026 How does a fibre-optic strand thinner than a spaghetti noodle carry a signal across 13,000 kilometres of ocean without… + Tech Explained
• Aug 20, 2026 Wi-Fi signals struggle through walls not because concrete is thick, but because water in the plaster absorbs 2.4 GHz… + Tech Explained
• Aug 20, 2026 Voyager 1 is now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth, and its transmitter runs on about 22 watts + Tech Explained
• Aug 18, 2026 How did a rubber gasket the size of a dinner plate, stiffened overnight in a Florida cold snap, rewrite the way NASA… + Tech Explained
• Aug 18, 2026 A QR code's three corner squares aren't decoration + Tech Explained
• Aug 17, 2026 When your phone shoots a portrait, the blurred background isn't optical + Tech Explained
• Aug 17, 2026 How did a country with no large rivers and limited land to collect rain build the capacity to meet up to 40 per cent of… + Tech Explained
• Aug 16, 2026 How did a cracked rubber O-ring the size of a coin, stiffened by a Florida cold snap in January 1986, destroy a space… + Tech Explained
• Aug 12, 2026 The rarest form of mental strength in adult life isn't discipline or resilience, it's the capacity to sit inside an… + Lifestyle
• Aug 12, 2026 The 'root' of the internet is 13 named server clusters + Tech Explained
• Aug 12, 2026 How did a Sunday driving ban imposed by Dutch prime minister Joop den Uyl during the 1973 oil shock quietly turn empty… + Tech Explained
• Aug 11, 2026 Deleting a file removes only the signpost pointing to it + Tech Explained
• Aug 11, 2026 When YouTube launched in April 2005, its first video was a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front… + Tech Explained
• Aug 11, 2026 The JPEG format was finalised in 1992 by a committee that met for six years to agree on how much visual information a… + Tech Explained
• Aug 10, 2026 How did a publicly humiliated Japanese electronics firm turn a failed CD partnership with Nintendo into a console that… + Gaming