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- Jun 9, 2026 ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was… + Tech Explained
- Jun 9, 2026 In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it… + Tech Explained
- Jun 9, 2026 The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a… + Tech Explained
- Jun 9, 2026 French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight + Lifestyle
- Jun 9, 2026 When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter… + Tech Explained
- Jun 9, 2026 When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked… + Tech Explained
- Jun 9, 2026 The original iPhone Steve Jobs unveiled in January 2007 could not record video, could not copy and paste text, could… + iOS
- Jun 8, 2026 In 1965, Joe Sutter’s Boeing team began shaping the 747 around a future they thought would belong to supersonic jets… + Tech Explained
- Jun 8, 2026 Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs… + Mac
- Jun 8, 2026 When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten… + News
- Jun 8, 2026 Masahiro Hara and Denso engineers built the QR code in 1994 to help Toyota suppliers scan car parts from any angle… + Tech Explained
- Jun 8, 2026 In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes wrote LAP6 for the LINC computer from her parents' Baltimore home, testing an interactive… + Tech Explained
- Jun 8, 2026 When Grace Hopper wanted to explain a nanosecond to admirals who kept asking why satellites were slow, she handed each… + Tech Explained
- Jun 8, 2026 The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact frequency at which… + News
- Jun 8, 2026 When Doug Wheelock came home after 163 days in space, he said he had craved the aroma of leaves, grass, flowers, and… + Tech Explained
- Jun 8, 2026 When Frank Maixner’s team reconstructed Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old stomach bacterium in 2016, the Helicobacter… + Tech Explained
- Jun 8, 2026 When Cingular chief Stan Sigman backed the original iPhone before its 2007 unveiling, he accepted terms American… + Mobile
- Jun 8, 2026 Every year, roughly two billion new smartphones, laptops, and tablets ship with a key arrangement designed in the 1870s… + Tech Explained
- Jun 6, 2026 Tristan Harris, Google's former design ethicist, told the US Senate that the pull-to-refresh gesture on nearly every… + Tech Explained
- Jun 6, 2026 In 1969, László Bélády and two IBM colleagues published a paging-machine anomaly showing FIFO could make four memory… + Tech Explained