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• 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
• Jun 6, 2026 In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago… + News
• Jun 5, 2026 Otto von Bismarck was 74 when Germany adopted the world’s first national old-age social insurance program in 1889… + News
• Jun 5, 2026 When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir… + News
• Jun 5, 2026 When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic… + News
• Jun 5, 2026 The colour magenta does not exist anywhere in the spectrum of visible light, and your brain manufactures it on the spot… + Tech Explained
• Jun 5, 2026 When Harvard astronomer Cecilia Payne submitted her 1925 doctoral thesis arguing that the Sun was made almost entirely… + News