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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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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

What You Need to Know About Future Web Standards (That are Making the Internet Better)

The Internet started 40 years ago and many things have changed since then. Let’s take a look at the future web standards and how they improve the Internet.

By Manish Singh – Mar 19, 2014

Prevent Blank Tabs from Opening When Dowloading Files in Firefox

How to Set Up and Use Mozilla’s Firefox Accounts

Firefox Sync is getting better in the new nightly version of Firefox. If you have not setup your Firefox account, here is how you can do so.

By Alan Buckingham – Mar 18, 2014

Using the Google Drive Form Feature as an Organizational Tool

Google Drive has a hidden function with Forms, and while it creates great surveys and quizzes, it can also be used as a useful organizational tool.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 17, 2014

7 YouTube Channels Where You Can Find Computer Help

If you find video content more gripping, there is a gamut of YouTube channels that are waiting to help you solve your technology woes. Here are 7 of them.

By Manish Singh – Mar 14, 2014

5 Tools to Find the Best Time to Tweet in Twitter

If you aren’t reaching enough people on Twitter, try one of the following 5 apps which will help you find the best time to tweet for the best exposure.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 12, 2014

Is the Era of Privacy Over?

The governments have been using various measures to get hold of our information. So, have we left the era of privacy behind us?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 7, 2014

6 Interesting Ways to Make Good Use of Pinterest

The following are six ideas to get you started using Pinterest, ideas that go beyond pinning pictures of food and home decorating issues.

By Laura Tucker – Mar 5, 2014

Do Sentences Make Better Passwords?

One proposition that security experts made recently was to use short sentences as passwords, rather than a complicated string of characters. Let’s see if this is a more secure method.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 28, 2014

5 Great Sites That Help You Build Creative CVs

Your resume is an important part of your professional life and it doesn’t have to be boring. Here are 5 of the best sites to build a nice and creative CV.

By Diogo Costa – Feb 22, 2014

How Does ICANN’s Relationship with the US Affect You?

You’ve probably heard on the news something about ICANN and its “cozy relationship with the United States.” So how does that affect both you and me?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 17, 2014

How to Check Your Network Connection With Chrome Connectivity Diagnostics

If you need a simple and easy-to-use tool to check your network connection, Chrome Connectivity Diagnostics by Google is the best tool you can find.

By Shujaa Imran – Feb 15, 2014

How To Play Flappy Bird on Any Phone, Tablet or Computer

Flappy Bird is no longer around in the App store, but if you just want your old game back, there’s also a HTML5-based clone edition of Flappy Bird.

By Shujaa Imran – Feb 13, 2014

How to Fix Chrome’s Extension Security Problems

Some of the extensions in Chrome store are using hidden adware to make money off of you. Here are some fixes for you to tackle the extension security problems.

By Alan Buckingham – Feb 11, 2014

5 Pinterest Alternatives You May Not Know of

Pinterest is not the only site for you to pin images. There are plenty of Pinterest alternatives sites that serve different niche and needs. Let’s check them out.

By Diogo Costa – Feb 5, 2014

Clef: Log In to WordPress Without Any Password

Tired of typing your username and password everytime you want to login to a site? Clef is a password replacement app that allows you to login without password.

By Damien Oh – Feb 4, 2014

Skrill, a Trustworthy PayPal Alternative

Paypal may be the biggest online payment platform, it is definitely not the best. Skrill is a good Paypal alternative that is available in 200 countries.

By Diogo Costa – Jan 31, 2014

Light – A Lightweight and Speedy Firefox Alternative

Light is a lightweight browser built with speed in mind and is ideal for old machines. It is a Firefox alternative with several non-essential features removed.

By Diogo Costa – Jan 23, 2014

Still Need a 2014 Calendar? Make One Using Pically

Are you still looking for the perfect 2014 calendar. Pically is a free program that you can grab and use to create beautiful calendars using your own photos.

By Alan Buckingham – Jan 21, 2014

Understanding the Various Copyright Licenses

Copyright licenses are complicated. If you want to distribute your work, you will want to find out more about copyright licenses and which one you should use.

By Diogo Costa – Jan 16, 2014

How to Import your Instapaper Articles into Pocket

If you are planning to import Instapaper articles to Pocket, the procedure to is extremely easy and shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. Here’s how.

By Mahesh Makvana – Jan 6, 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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