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• 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
• 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