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- Jul 21, 2026 Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 25 billion kilometres away, powered by less than 250 watts of decaying… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jul 20, 2026 In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it into the… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 15, 2026 When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a "hotline"… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 12, 2026 Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
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- Jun 10, 2026 Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 10, 2026 A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 10, 2026 In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 9, 2026 ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 9, 2026 In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 9, 2026 The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 9, 2026 When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 9, 2026 When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 9, 2026 The original iPhone Steve Jobs unveiled in January 2007 could not record video, could not copy and paste text, could… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 8, 2026 In 1965, Joe Sutter’s Boeing team began shaping the 747 around a future they thought would belong to supersonic jets… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
- Jun 8, 2026 Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs… By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team