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By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Oct 26, 2026
When the nuclear-powered USS Colorado joined the US Navy in 2018, sailors used an Xbox controller to aim its camera masts
- Oct 26, 2026 Two Guinness World Records went to the same machine at once after BELAZ presented the 75710 in September… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 24, 2026 Roc spans 385 feet from wingtip to wingtip, takes off at 1.3 million pounds on six engines taken from… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 24, 2026 Reynold B. Johnson's San Jose team coated aluminum disks with iron oxide paint for the IBM 305 RAMAC in… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 24, 2026 Erno Rubik built his first cube in 1974 as a 30 year old lecturer in Budapest, scrambled it and needed a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 24, 2026 Gideon Sundback patented the hookless fastener with interlocking teeth in 1917, and the word zipper was… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 24, 2026 Dr John O'Sullivan and four colleagues in CSIRO's Radiophysics Division used Fast Fourier transforms… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 23, 2026 Crawler-Transporter 2 weighs about 6.6 million pounds, roughly 1,000 pickup trucks, and the machine NASA… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 23, 2026 A 20 MW offshore wind turbine with its hub 174 metres above the water, the height of a 58-storey… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 23, 2026 ENIAC ran 18,000 vacuum tubes at Penn in 1946, more than 20 times the number in every system aboard a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 23, 2026 Alexey Pajitnov built Tetris in June 1984 on an Electronika 60 at the Moscow Academy of Sciences, a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 23, 2026 Scott Fahlman proposed :-) as a joke marker on a Carnegie Mellon bulletin board on 19 September 1982… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 22, 2026 Swiss engineer George de Mestral came home from a hunting trip in 1941 with burdock burrs stuck to his… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 22, 2026 The patent for the modern stud and tube LEGO brick was filed at 1:58 pm on 28 January 1958 in Copenhagen By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 22, 2026 A physicist gave 176 consoles from the Air Force's PS3 supercomputer a second life inside a refrigerated… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 22, 2026 Standing on Sixth Avenue in New York on 3 April 1973, Motorola's Martin Cooper made the first public… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 22, 2026 A 1,680-ton boring machine that arrived from Germany in about 100 pieces has started chewing into the… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 22, 2026 The world's first traffic light stood 6 metres tall outside the Houses of Parliament from 9 December… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 21, 2026 David Bradley wrote Ctrl+Alt+Del into the 1981 IBM PC as a soft reboot for developers, and at the… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 21, 2026 Otto Rohwedder's bread slicer cut its first commercial loaf at the Chillicothe Baking Company in… By Make Tech Easier Editorial