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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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I Just Replaced Adobe Illustrator With This Browser Based Alternative

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

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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

Gaming

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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 Measure Distance Between Two Points in Google Maps

Learn to measure distance using Google Maps on your mobile phone or PC to have an idea of how far you will need to travel.

By Alexandra Arici – Jul 6, 2024

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How to Convert Handwritten Documents to Text

Learn how to easily convert your handwritten documents into editable text using readily available HTR tools.

By David Morelo – Jul 6, 2024

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How to Create a Duet on TikTok

Did you know that TikTok lets you react to videos you find captivating? Learn how to how to Duet on TikTok by checking this guide.

By Alexandra Arici – Jul 5, 2024

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7 of the Best Adobe InDesign Alternatives to Try

You don’t have to subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud to get a capable desktop publishing app. Save money with these InDesign alternatives.

By Ryan Lynch – Jul 5, 2024

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Slack Tips and Tricks: 10 Tips to Become More Productive With Slack

Learn how to use Slack more productively with these tried-and-tested tips and tricks, from integrating software to customizing notifications.

By Danny Maiorca – Jul 5, 2024

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4 Ways to Schedule a WhatsApp Message

If you want to schedule a message on WhatsApp, this guide covers a few native methods of scheduling, as well as third-party app options.

By Alexandra Arici – Jul 4, 2024

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7 Useful Productivity Bots for Slack

Want to get even more accomplished in Slack? Check out these productivity bots for Slack to keep track of tasks, boost morale, and more.

By Crystal Crowder – Jul 3, 2024

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Cheapest Netflix Plan Without Ads Removed

If you’ve been using the cheapest Netflix plan that allows you to not see ads, you’ll have to either watch ads or get a more expensive plan.

By Laura Tucker – Jul 3, 2024

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How to Choose a Phone Case for Your Smartphone

There are many varieties of phone cases for Android and iPhone. This guide shows how to choose a phone case for your smartphone.

By Sayak Boral – Jul 3, 2024

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How to Delete or Deactivate Your Instagram Account

If you’re looking to take a break from Instagram, you can deactivate it instead of deleting it.

By Alexandra Arici – Jul 2, 2024

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Use Giphy in Slack to Have Some Fun at Work

Learn how to use Giphy in Slack in this easy-to-follow guide. You’ll learn how to integrate the app and customize your settings.

By Danny Maiorca – Jul 2, 2024

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How to Manage Multiple Gmail Accounts and Check Email in One Place

While common to have multiple Gmail accounts, you can easily manage multiple Gmail accounts in one place. Here’s how to do so.

By Sayak Boral – Jul 1, 2024

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How to Create Your Own AI Agent Without Coding

Want a personal AI assistant that automates tasks and simplifies your life? You can build one yourself without writing a single line of code.

By David Morelo – Jul 1, 2024

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6 Ways to See When Someone Was Last Active on Snapchat

Waiting anxiously for a reply from someone? Learn how to see when someone was last active on Snapchat, and put your mind at ease.

By Alexandra Arici – Jun 29, 2024

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OpenAI, Microsoft Sued for Copyright Violations

OpenAI and Microsoft are being sued by the Center for Investigative Reporting for copyright violations. And it’s not the only lawsuit.

By Laura Tucker – Jun 28, 2024

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How to Create and Manage a Slack Workspace

Want to create a space specifically for your team, business, or friends to chat? Learn how to create and manage a Slack workspace for free.

By Crystal Crowder – Jun 28, 2024

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TikTok to Host July Sales Event Like Amazon Prime Day

TikTok is challenging the online shopping king by hosting its own Amazon Prime Day-like sales event in July: “Deals for You Days.”

By Laura Tucker – Jun 27, 2024

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4 Ways to Find Someone on WhatsApp

Want to reach out to someone new on WhatsApp? Check out our guide on how to find someone on WhatsApp and start chatting with them.

By Alexandra Arici – Jun 27, 2024

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What is LinkedIn Premium, and Is It Worth It?

Wondering if you should give LinkedIn Premium a shot? Learn what you get with your subscription and how to sign up.

By Alexandra Arici – Jun 26, 2024

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Tracking Devices, AirTags Big with Domestic Violence, Organized Crime

Tracking devices and AirTags can appeal to the dark side, as a study reveals they are often used in domestic violence and organized crime.

By Laura Tucker – Jun 26, 2024

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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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