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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)

How To Fix Snapchat’s Most Annoying Audio Glitches

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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What Is NVIDIA DLSS? Upscaling and DLSS Alternatives Explained

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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

Add 'Explicit' and 'Clean' Tags to Songs in iTunes

Add Explicit and Clean Tags to Songs in iTunes

If you’ve ever wondered how to get those little ‘explicit’ and ‘clean’ tags next to your songs in iTunes, here’s how to do that.

By Paul Ferson – Aug 19, 2015

Can Hackers Be a Force For Good?

Can Hackers Be a Force For Good?

Not all hackers are bad; some have a net positive effect on the Internet’s ecosystem as a whole. What motivates them? Can they be a force for good?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Aug 19, 2015

How to Customize the Ultimate Start Page in Chrome or Firefox With Start.me

How to Create the Ultimate Start Page for Chrome or Firefox with Start.me

Start.me is a new tab replacement for Chrome, Firefox & Safari. For first-time users it isn’t the easiest to customize, so we’ve made this tutorial to help.

By Khamosh Pathak – Aug 18, 2015

4 Ways You Can Read Offline Articles While On The Go

3 Ways You Can Read Offline Articles While on the Go

Looking for a way to read offline articles even when on the go? Here are four ways to access articles in your browser no matter where you are.

By Maria Krisette Capati – Aug 17, 2015

Should The Police Be Involved In The Web?

Should the Police Be Involved in the Web?

Swatting is a dangerous cyber crime that puts people in danger by reporting false crimes and deploying SWAT to their home. Many want justice for this. Should the police get involved?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Aug 16, 2015

Open Current Tab of Chrome in Firefox with Keyboard Shortcut [Mac OS X]

Are you looking for ways to easily open a current tab of Chrome in Firefox? Here’s a simple trick that you can use in Mac OS X.

By Damien Oh – Aug 12, 2015

DPCustomMono: The Font for Proofreading?

DPCustomMono: The Font for Proofreading?

DPCustomMono is a font intended solely for proofreading. Read on to learn about its functionality and find out why it’s well worth trying on your OS.

By Paul Ferson – Aug 12, 2015

Why Are VoIP And VoLTE So Hyped?

Why Are VoIP And VoLTE So Hyped?

Want to learn more about VoIP and VoLTE and see what makes them better and how they compare to older cellular networks? Read on to find out.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Aug 10, 2015

MTE Explains: What is a Monospace Font?

MTE Explains: What is a Monospace Font?

There are numerous monospace fonts included on computers; the Courier family is the most famous. Here’s everything you need to know about this font.

By Paul Ferson – Aug 7, 2015

Keyboard Shortcuts That Make Navigating Facebook Easier

Navigating Facebook with These Keyboard Shortcuts

Facebook offers a number of keyboard shortcuts to make it easy to navigate the site and get to content quickly. Here are some of those shortcuts.

By Mahesh Makvana – Aug 6, 2015

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How to Undo Sending an Email in Gmail

Google has recently made official the Undo Send feature in Gmail. Here is how you can activate and use Undo Send for emails in Gmail.

By Mahesh Makvana – Aug 4, 2015

MTE Explains: What Exactly Is Cyber Warfare?

You probably have heard the term “cyber warfare” and wondered what it really means? This article explains what cyber warfare is and how it is used.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Aug 3, 2015

Receive Email Notification of Security Vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins

Keep yourself updated and receive email notifications of any security vulnerabilities found in your WordPress site. Here is how you can do so.

By Damien Oh – Jul 30, 2015

The Complete Guide to Catching Up on News on a Slow Internet Connection

The Complete Guide to Catching Up on News with a Slow Internet Connection

Unable to catch up on the news online when you’re stuck with a terrible Internet connection? We have some tips that help make this less of a challenge.

By Khamosh Pathak – Jul 29, 2015

Making Multi-Track Music with Audacity

Making Multi-Track Music with Audacity

In this article we will talk about how to use Audacity as a multitrack studio and making finished tracks using all the little tricks which make it easy.

By Phil South – Jul 29, 2015

How to Use Chrome's New Tab Page for Jotting Down Notes and To-Dos to Be More Productive

Use Chrome’s New Tab Page for Notes and To-Dos to Be More Productive

The two best ways to utilize the new tab page in Chrome is to put to-dos or notes there. In this article we show you the best Chrome extensions for this.

By Khamosh Pathak – Jul 27, 2015

How to Restore Ribbon UI to the Classic Layout for Microsoft Office

The Ribbon UI has been around since Microsoft Office 2007, and there are numerous workarounds to restore the classic menu layout. Here are some options.

By Paul Ferson – Jul 25, 2015

How to Easily Request and Collect Files With Anyone on the Web in Dropbox

How to Easily Request and Collect Files with Anyone on the Web in Dropbox

Do you use Dropbox? If so, did you know that you can collect all the files you need from others in one convenient folder by sending them a link? Here’s how.

By Khamosh Pathak – Jul 24, 2015

Top 6 Extensions to Improve Feedly Experience in Chrome

Top 6 Extensions to Improve Feedly Experience in Chrome

By default the Feedly experience isn’t perfect. Thankfully there are a couple Chrome extensions that make catching up with RSS in Chrome more enjoyable.

By Khamosh Pathak – Jul 23, 2015

How to Disable Flash Player in All Browsers

Adobe Flash is always riddled with a range of security flaws and vulnerabilities. Here’s how you can protect yourself and disable Flash on all browsers.

By Vamsi Krishna – Jul 21, 2015

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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

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.

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