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Jun 1, 2026 In 1901, sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera pulled a corroded lump of bronze out of a Roman shipwreck… + Tech Explained
Jun 1, 2026 When Boeing 747-400 pilots needed to update their navigation database as late as 2020, a technician would walk onto the… + Tech Explained
Jun 1, 2026 When the U.S. military finally deployed frequency-hopping spread spectrum on Navy ships during the 1962 Cuban Missile… + Tech Explained
May 31, 2026 Toy Story 2 was nearly erased from existence when someone at Pixar accidentally ran a delete command on the film’s… + Lifestyle
May 31, 2026 Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13… + Tech Explained
May 31, 2026 A Japanese man named Jiroemon Kimura, who lived to 116, was born in 1897 when Queen Victoria still ruled and died in… + Internet
May 31, 2026 The Voyager 1 spacecraft launched in 1977 is now over 15 billion miles from Earth, and a radio signal from NASA takes… + Computing
May 31, 2026 The Hollywood sign originally read HOLLYWOODLAND when it was built in 1923 as a real estate advertisement for a housing… + Internet
May 31, 2026 In the small hours of 2 September 1859, a telegraph operator in Portland, Maine disconnected his batteries because they… + Tech Explained
May 31, 2026 In 1992, a container ship leaving Hong Kong lost 28,800 plastic bath toys overboard in the North Pacific, and… + Tech Explained
May 31, 2026 In 1942, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil received US Patent 2,292,387 for a… + Tech Explained
May 31, 2026 In 1859 a storm on the Sun struck the Earth so hard that telegraph wires threw sparks and operators were shocked at… + Lifestyle
May 31, 2026 Almost all of the world's internet traffic does not travel by satellite but through fibre-optic cables lying on the… + Internet
May 31, 2026 Every time you book a flight or check a hotel room, your request is routed through a green-screen mainframe system that… + Computing
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