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When Microsoft was developing Windows 95, developers discovered that SimCity had a severe memory bug that caused it to crash on the new operating system—but instead of forcing the game studio to fix it, Microsoft engineers actually rewrote the core Windows 95 source code to detect if SimCity was running and safely allocate memory for it.

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Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs wanted users to reach for the mouse first. Then Apple quietly sold the missing keys as an accessory.

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3 Ways to Fix Headset Microphone Picking Up Headset Output

Get rid of this annoying issue now.

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CCleaner 6 Review: An Essential Tool for Windows Users

Takes the guesswork out of keeping your machine in good running order.

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How to Check the Weather on Your Windows Desktop

What are the skies forecasting?

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Be a chroot master!

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How to Create a BBS in Linux with EnigmaBBS

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9 Easy Ways to Check PC Health

Stay on top of your PC’s health to avoid nasty surprises.

By Crystal Crowder – Aug 1, 2022

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication Review

End the struggle over Microsoft 365 backups.

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How to Secure Your Linux Servers With SELinux

Protect your Linux server now!

By Hrishikesh Pathak – Aug 1, 2022

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You don’t need anything more for a quick conversion.

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Environmental variables can serve many puproses.

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How to Change Account and User Name on Windows

You can get a brand new user name in Windows quite easily.

By Saurav Dey – Jul 27, 2022

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Learn what is XDP and how it works.

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Webcams should be tested, especially before the first use.

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How to Install Android Studio and SDK Tools in Windows

Here’s how to get started with Android development.

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Quickly get acquainted with rc shell.

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How to Customize the Menu Bar in macOS

A simple feature that can transform your computing experience.

By Brahm Shank – Jul 22, 2022

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Is your PC performing the way you want it to?

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Easily beautify and customize your Linux Terminal prompt!

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How to View and Clear Activity History on a Windows PC

Stop Windows from tracking your activity on your PC.

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When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

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Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

Jun 11, 2026

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The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket

Jun 11, 2026

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Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

Jun 10, 2026

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A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

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