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• Aug 3, 2026 Bluetooth was named after a 10th-century Viking king who united Denmark and Norway + Tech Explained
• Jul 31, 2026 When you type an address into a browser, your computer asks a DNS resolver for the site's numeric address, and the… + Tech Explained
• Jul 31, 2026 How did a guidance computer with 4 kilobytes of memory, less than a modern greeting card chip, land Apollo 11 on the… + Tech Explained
• Jul 30, 2026 Fast charging isn't killing your battery + Tech Explained
• Jul 30, 2026 Deleting a file usually doesn't erase it + Tech Explained
• Jul 30, 2026 A password manager stores your vault in the cloud as encrypted ciphertext, not readable passwords, which is why… + Tech Explained
• Jul 29, 2026 Airplane mode was never just about planes + Tech Explained
• Jul 29, 2026 Incognito mode was never private + Tech Explained
• Jul 28, 2026 HTTPS doesn't encrypt which sites you visit + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 In 1947, Harvard’s Mark II ran on roughly 13,000 electromechanical relays, stored numbers across 100 registers, and… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 How did a single computer worm written by a Cornell graduate student in November 1988 crash roughly 6,000 machines and… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 When you tilt a smartphone, gravity shifts microscopic silicon fingers inside its accelerometer by only a few… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 A microwave oven works because water molecules have a slight positive and negative end + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 The retina of the mantis shrimp carries twelve types of colour receptor to the human eye's three + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 When a lightning return stroke heats a channel only centimetres wide to roughly 30,000 kelvin, about five times the… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 In October 1957, a beachball-sized aluminium sphere called Sputnik 1 began sending 0.3-second pulses on two radio… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 In 1968, Douglas Engelbart sat before roughly 1,000 computing professionals in San Francisco and demonstrated the… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 How did a 1956 shipping container standardised at 8 by 8 by 20 feet cut cargo loading costs from about $5.83 a tonne to… + Tech Explained
• Jul 27, 2026 Content and cloud networks now account for three-quarters of used international bandwidth, while Google, Meta… + Internet