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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

MTE Explains: What Is the US Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights?

The US government is intending to introduce new laws to protect the privacy of individuals on the Internet. Here is what you need to know about this proposal.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 2, 2015

Easily Add Custom Icons to Your Theme Menu in WordPress

Ever wanted to add custom menu icons to your WordPress theme and improve the aesthetics of your website? You can easily do so with the Menu Icons plugin.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 26, 2015

How the Internet of Things and Smart Homes Make Hacking More Interesting

While everyone is excited about the conveniences of Internet of Things, few have looked how the security landscape will become as a consequence.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 23, 2015

How to Disable Third-Party Cookies in Chrome and Firefox

To prevent third-party cookies from tracking your online activity, you can disable third-party cookies in Firefox and Chrome. Here’s how you can do it.

By Vamsi Krishna – Feb 23, 2015

Is It Even Possible to Have Two Internets?

Most people are used to “the Internet,” but what if one day we would have to use “internets” to describe what we’re connecting to? Is that even possible?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 20, 2015

Add Convenient Download Options to Firefox

With this simple tweak, you can add two new options – “Open” and “Run” to Firefox’s Download Manager. Let’s check it out.

By Paul Ferson – Feb 18, 2015

How to Copy Link Address Without Right-Clicking in Chrome

Fancy a faster way to copy a link in the browser? Copy Link Address allows you to simply hover over a link and press “Ctrl + C” to copy the address.

By Kim Barloso – Feb 14, 2015

How HTTP 2.0 Will Change The Face of The Internet

With the new HTTP/2, let’s find out what this new protocol version does, how it can improve the loading speed of webpages and how you can benefit from it.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 13, 2015

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Bttn: Control Internet-Enabled Devices and Web Services with a Single Button

What if you could press a single button and have it do anything you wanted? Now you can with the Bttn. Come read more about it and win one of your own!

By Charnita Fance – Feb 13, 2015

Add Windows Calculator to Excel Quick Access Toolbar

If you are using the built-in Calculator and Microsoft Excel regularly, why not add the calculator to Excel for quick access? Here’s how you can do it.

By Sridhar Belide – Feb 13, 2015

How to Close and Snooze Tabs in Chrome to Reduce the Clutter

It’s common to have multiple tabs open in a web browser. Here is how you can close and snooze tabs in Chrome to free up space in your web browser.

By Himanshu Arora – Feb 12, 2015

Manage Saved Passwords

How to Manage Saved Passwords in Various Web Browsers

Most modern browsers come with a password manager for us to save our passwords. This article will take you through the steps to manage your saved passwords in various browsers.

By Sridhar Belide – Feb 12, 2015

5 Chrome Apps to Maximize Your Productivity

There are many productivity apps that can help us become more efficient. The following apps make use of Google services and are particularly handy as Chrome apps. Check them out.

By Ivana Isadora Devcic – Feb 11, 2015

Just How Secure Is Your Bank Account?

You probably have an online banking account. What if someone decided to hack into your account and steal from it? How secure do you think your bank account is?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 9, 2015

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5 Stellar Features of the New Microsoft Outlook App

Microsoft recently updated the Outlook app for iOS and Android. Can the major revamp entice you to switch from your stock email client? Let’s check it out.

By Maria Krisette Capati – Feb 5, 2015

Test Your Website in Various Mobile Devices Without Physically Owning the Devices

Google Chrome comes with a nifty tool that allows you to test how your website render in various mobile device. Here is how you can use the device mode in Chrome.

By Damien Oh – Feb 4, 2015

Why Websites Go Down, And What They Do About It

Have you ever wondered what large companies do to ensure that their websites stay up, and why websites sometimes go belly-up for a few hours? It’s time to speak about both of these things!

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 2, 2015

How to Convert Images to Text (OCR) With Google Drive

Rather than using an expensive OCR software, you can now use Google Drive to convert image to text. Here’s how you can do so.

By Damien Oh – Feb 2, 2015

How to Add Emails to Google Tasks Within Gmail

If you use Gmail in Google Chrome, here’s a handy extension that allows you to see your Google Tasks along with your Gmail inbox.

By Kim Barloso – Jan 28, 2015

8 Common Browser Error Messages That You Should Know

While surfing the web, you probably have come across error codes like 404, 502, etc. Here are some of the most common browser errors that you should know.

By Vamsi Krishna – Jan 27, 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

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

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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.

Jun 10, 2026

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