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May 31, 2026 In 1997, a team of engineers hid an entire flight simulator inside the code of Microsoft Excel as an unlisted "Easter… + Computing
May 31, 2026 A 65-year-old programming language called COBOL still quietly processes over $3 trillion in banking transactions every… + Computing
May 31, 2026 In 1979, a Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara built the first Walkman prototype in four days because his boss Masaru… + Tech Explained
May 30, 2026 A four-month-old Chinese startup just launched a $118 AI collar that claims to translate dog and cat vocalizations into… + Lifestyle
May 30, 2026 NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on… + Lifestyle
May 30, 2026 The computer that landed Apollo 11 stored its code in "rope memory" that was physically woven by hand by a workforce of… + Lifestyle
May 30, 2026 The U.S. Army has officially pushed "jailbroken" software updates to active weapon systems in the Middle East + News
May 30, 2026 Five years ago, a group of researchers walked out of OpenAI over safety concerns to build a quiet rival named Claude + News
May 30, 2026 Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos AI has proven so terrifyingly good at hacking legacy software that the firm locked… + News
May 30, 2026 OpenAI has launched a massive $4 billion corporate engineering initiative called "DeployCo" to embed elite developers… + News
May 30, 2026 Stanford scientists just built a room-temperature quantum device that uses "twisted light" to connect electrons and… + Computing
May 30, 2026 A breakthrough in solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries has quietly achieved double the energy density of standard EV… + News
May 30, 2026 In 1985, registering a .com domain cost nothing, required a technical request rather than a shopping cart, and produced… + Tech Explained
May 29, 2026 In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 carrying a map that uses 14 pulsars to pinpoint Earth's exact position in the Milky… + Tech Explained
May 29, 2026 Adults who find it physically painful to ask for help, even when they are completely overwhelmed, usually aren't proud + Lifestyle
May 29, 2026 In 1962, a single missing character in NASA's guidance software doomed Mariner 1 just minutes after launch + Tech Explained
May 29, 2026 In 1985, a 14-year-old in Britain could legally drive a Sinclair C5 down a dual carriageway at 15 miles per hour with… + Tech Explained
May 29, 2026 In 1962, the US detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb 250 miles above the Pacific in a test called Starfish Prime, and… + Tech Explained
May 28, 2026 Research says people who never post on social media aren't antisocial, secretive, or behind the times + Lifestyle
May 28, 2026 Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA… + Lifestyle