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Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

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

Close-up of glowing jellyfish swimming gracefully in deep green ocean waters.

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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A Japanese man named Jiroemon Kimura, who lived to 116, was born in 1897 when Queen Victoria still ruled and died in 2013, meaning a single human life personally overlapped with the invention of the airplane, the atomic bomb, the internet, and Instagram

A lively view of Hollywood Boulevard with iconic landmarks and busy street life under a clear sky.

The Hollywood sign originally read HOLLYWOODLAND when it was built in 1923 as a real estate advertisement for a housing development, and it was only meant to stand for 18 months, but nobody ever got around to taking it down and the city eventually adopted it as a landmark

Almost all of the world’s internet traffic does not travel by satellite but through fibre-optic cables lying on the ocean floor, a hidden web of wires crossing the deepest parts of the sea to connect the continents.

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WinX DVD Ripper: Quickly Rip and Digitize DVDs

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I Just Replaced Adobe Illustrator With This Browser Based Alternative

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Use Pake to Turn Websites Into Desktop Apps — No Bloat, No Browser Dependency

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VideoProc Converter AI: Easy 1-Stop AI Video, Image, Audio Tool

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Stop Using Capcut! This Secret Open-Source Browser App Is a Video-Editing Beast

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How to Use WhatsApp Web and WhatsApp Desktop in 2026

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Discord Botched Age Verification – Here’s How They’re Fixing It

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How to Download Videos from X (Formerly Twitter)

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Snapchat Audio Driving You Crazy? Here’s the Rapid Fix

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How to Hide Telegram Chats Without Permanently Deleting Them

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In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Sony’s PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly imported over 4,000 of the gaming consoles — sparking an intense military investigation over fears that the systems would be chained together to build a crude, low-cost supercomputer capable of guiding long-range missiles

The legendary video game Pac-Man doesn’t actually have an ending—instead, a single 8-bit integer overflow bug causes the game’s internal counter to glitch out at Level 256, violently corrupting the right half of the screen into a chaotic mess of random symbols and rendering the final stage completely unplayable.

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How to Play The Legend of Zelda on PC

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Apple has quietly become the largest watchmaker in the world by unit sales, shipping more than twice as many watches as the entire Swiss industry combined — but the Swiss industry, which dismissed the Apple Watch in 2015, has discovered something more interesting: they’ve held onto the high end, and Rolex alone is now closing in on Apple Watch by revenue

Why You Need A Travel Router For Public Wi Fi (and How To Set It Up)

Why a Travel Router is the Best Investment for Your Next Trip

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9 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Tablets and Put Them to Good Use

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11 Ways to Repurpose Old Phones

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I Finally Moved Away From My Synology NAS, and I Don’t Miss It

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How to Hide Bookmarks on Your Computer Using Google Chrome

You may not want other users to know what you have bookmarked in your browser. Here are a few ways you can hide bookmarks in Google Chrome.

By Neeraj Chand – Dec 21, 2019

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How to Get Google Play Movies, Music and Photos on Roku

Google Play services are not available on Roku by default, but you can get them onboard. Learn how to get Google Play movies, music and Photos on Roku.

By Jenna Tsui – Dec 20, 2019

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AdBlock vs Adblock Plus: What’s the Difference, and Which is Best?

AdBlock and Adblock Plus (ABP) are two of the most popular ad blockers. Here we compare both tp see which is better for blocking ads.

By Sayak Boral – Dec 18, 2019

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Edraw Max vs. SmartDraw vs. Microsoft Visio: Comparing the Best Drawing Tools

Edraw Max, SmartDraw and Microsoft Visio are popular software for creating flowcharts and presentation graphics. Find out which is the best of the three.

By Sayak Boral – Dec 17, 2019

Security Padlock Feature

What Does the Padlock in My Browser’s Address Bar Mean?

Sometimes the padlock in your browser’s address bar changes color, gets an extra symbol layered on top of it, or turns into text. What does it really mean?

By Andrew Braun – Dec 17, 2019

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How to Explore Nearby Places of Remote Location in Google Maps

Google Maps comes with a handy option to explore nearby places. Here’s how you can explore nearby places of a remote location in Google Maps.

By Neeraj Chand – Dec 17, 2019

Featured Transfer Files From One Cloud Provider To Another

Your Guide to Migrating Between Popular Cloud Services

This is your guide to moving files between popular cloud service providers including Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, and iCloud.

By Sayak Boral – Dec 16, 2019

Font Customization Styles

How to Change the Default Font in Google Chrome

Did you know you can change the deafult font in Google Chrome? You can change the size and style of the font to something more pleasing to the eye.

By Neeraj Chand – Dec 14, 2019

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How to Get Started with Git and GitHub

If you just started exploring GitHub, you’ll find a steep learning curve. Here is a step-by-step guide to help you get started with Git and GitHub.

By Sayak Boral – Dec 12, 2019

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How Does Brave Browser Compare to Chrome

Brave is a new browser that is heavily focused on privacy. How does it compare to Chrome? Does Brave have the secret sauce to overtake the Chrome browser?

By David Joz – Dec 11, 2019

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5 of the Best Game-Programming Languages for Developers

There are plenty of programming languages for game development, but which one is the best? Here are the best game-programming languages for developers.

By Jenna Tsui – Dec 10, 2019

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How to Hide Chrome Extension Icons and Declutter Your Toolbar

When you are using too many extensions for your browser, their icons will add clutter to your toolbar. Here’s a simple way to hide Chrome extension icons.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Dec 9, 2019

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How to Make Your Own AutoText Templates in LibreOffice Writer

If you often type the same phrases, sentences, or use templates based on the structure of your documents, LibreOffice Writer’s AutoText can help.

By Odysseas Kourafalos – Dec 9, 2019

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How to Set Up a Home Theater System with Amazon Echo and Fire TV

Looking for better sound from your TV? You can connect your Amazon Echo devices and Fire TV to create an Alexa Home Theater system. Here’s how.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Dec 8, 2019

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Chrome Crashing or Not Working? Here Are Some Fixes

Chrome is the most popular browser around and can be frustrating when it crashes or doesn’t work . Here are some tested solutions to fix a crashing Chrome.

By Elsie Biage – Dec 8, 2019

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How to Play a YouTube Playlist in VLC

By default, VLC does not support YouTube playlists. Here’s an easy way to play a YouTube playlist in VLC, and it only requires 5 minutes of your time.

By Simon Batt – Dec 7, 2019

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How to Start Writing VBA Macro in Microsoft Excel

Want to know how to automate repetitive and boring tasks? Try out Microsoft Excel VBA Macro. In this article, we explain the advantages of using VBA Macro.

By Sarah Adedun – Dec 6, 2019

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How to Use a Data-Scraping Tool to Extract Data from Webpages

A data-scraping tool allows you to extract data from web pages efforelessly and format them in a spreadsheet. Data Miner is one of the better implementations.

By Andrew Braun – Dec 5, 2019

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Your Guide to Backing Up Social Media Accounts

Here are some of the best methods for backing up your social media history, just in case you lose access to your social media accounts for whatever reasons.

By David Joz – Dec 5, 2019

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How to Change Your Route on Google Maps

Google Maps may not always give the best route for your journey. Here is how you can take over the routing process and change the route in Google Maps.

By Neeraj Chand – Dec 3, 2019

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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

Jun 15, 2026

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

Close-up of a young adult using a smartphone outdoors, highlighting modern technology and connectivity.

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

Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

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

Close-up of glowing jellyfish swimming gracefully in deep green ocean waters.

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.

Jun 10, 2026

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