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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

Use Rublon to Add Automatic Two-Factor Authentication to WordPress

Rublon is a plugin that implements two factor authentication in WordPress, without you having to do the additional authentication step. Let see how it works.

By Damien Oh – May 14, 2014

Does Disabling DHCP on Your Router Really Help Your Security?

Are you confused on what DHCP is and if you should disable it to make your network more secure? You won’t be after reading this.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 12, 2014

Import Email From Other Services to Outlook.com Using IMAP

With Outlook.com, it seems that Microsoft has hit the jackpot with an email service that competes with Gmail. Read on to find how to import IMAP messages.

By Diogo Costa – May 3, 2014

What to Do When You’ve Been Hacked

As of late, many people have been hacked and are the victims of password leaks and Trojan horse infections. The following are some tips if it happens to you

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 2, 2014

Rid Your Site of Any Profanity Content with WebPurify

To get rid of profanity and offensive content on your site, you can either moderate every single post manually, or automate it with an external tool. WebPurity is one useful tool built for this purpose.

By Diogo Costa – May 1, 2014

3 Reasons Why Encryption Is Not as Safe as You May Believe

What if I tell you that your encrypted data may already be cracked by the hackers? Here are some examples why encryption is not as safe as you may believe.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Apr 28, 2014

Stop Gmail from Showing You Targeted Ads

Google has been scanning your emails so as to serve you targeted ads. Here is how you can opt out of the system and stop Gmail from showing you targeted ads.

By Manish Singh – Apr 28, 2014

How to Organize History By Tags in Google Chrome

The History tool in Google Chrome can be in a mess sometimes. Better History provides a more structured way of searching and viewing recently visited sites.

By Kim Barloso – Apr 26, 2014

Using the New Microsoft Office App in Chrome

Following up to its revamp of the office web apps, Microsoft released a Chrome extension that allows you to use Office in Chrome browser. Let’s check it out.

By Alan Buckingham – Apr 24, 2014

How to Know the Word Count of Any Text in Firefox

For those who need to keep track of word count, Word Count Tool for Firefox allows you to easily find out the word/character count of highlighted text in the browser.

By Kim Barloso – Apr 18, 2014

How To Share Web Content Fast With Cortex for Chrome

If you want to try a faster way to share web content online, you might want to try an extension for Google Chrome called Cortex.

By Kim Barloso – Apr 16, 2014

What Is the OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug and Why Should You Care?

Things just don’t work the way they should in the Internet. Here are some things you should know about the OpenSSL “Heartbleed” bug and how it affects you.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Apr 11, 2014

Everything You Want to Know About Vines

The following is everything you need to know about Vines, including where to dowload the app, how to record a vine, and how to share your vines.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 10, 2014

Useful Resources to Learn Android and iOS Coding Online

If you have thought of learning how to code this summer break, here is a list of some of the most useful resources for you to learn Android and iOS coding.

By Manish Singh – Apr 8, 2014

5 of the Best Security Addons for Thunderbird

If you are using Thunderbird as your email client, check out this list of security addons for Thunderbird to secure your emails and protect yourself.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 7, 2014

Internet Regulation: Is it Going to Happen Soon? What Can You Do About It?

If one country could ban a website from its borders, what prevents other countries from doing the same? Can Internet regulation ever be good?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 28, 2014

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Hacked: 11 Signs Your Online Security Is Being Compromised

When you start to see weird behavior on your PC, it could be signs that your online security has been compromised. Here are 11 signs you should take note of

By Mike Tee – Mar 27, 2014

How Image Compression Works: The Basics

Do you know that you can easily compress your high-res images to smaller size without affecting its image quality? Here’s how image compression works.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 24, 2014

Pushbullet: Push Links and Files From Chrome or Firefox to Your Android Device

Sending content from desktop to Android is not as easy as it seems. An extension called Pushbullet for Google Chrome and Firefox makes this task easier.

By Kim Barloso – Mar 23, 2014

Internet Censorship: How Countries Block Their Citizens from Entering Websites

Some countries carry out Internet censorship and block their citizens from entering websites. How do they do this? Here’s the answer.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 21, 2014

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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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