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- Jun 8, 2026 In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes wrote LAP6 for the LINC computer from her parents' Baltimore home, testing an… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 8, 2026 When Grace Hopper wanted to explain a nanosecond to admirals who kept asking why satellites were slow… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 8, 2026 The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
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- Jun 8, 2026 When Frank Maixner’s team reconstructed Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old stomach bacterium in 2016, the… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
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- Jun 6, 2026 Tristan Harris, Google's former design ethicist, told the US Senate that the pull-to-refresh gesture on… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 6, 2026 In 1969, László Bélády and two IBM colleagues published a paging-machine anomaly showing FIFO could make… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 5, 2026 When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 5, 2026 The colour magenta does not exist anywhere in the spectrum of visible light, and your brain manufactures… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 5, 2026 On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 5, 2026 When Clair Patterson set out in 1948 to measure the age of the Earth using lead in meteorites, his… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 4, 2026 The IBM 305 RAMAC stayed in production until 1961, weighed more than a ton, stored five million… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 4, 2026 In 1977, Ann Druyan recorded an hour of her brainwaves and heartbeat two days after she and Carl Sagan… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 4, 2026 Every Apollo guidance computer that flew to the Moon had its software literally woven by hand at a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 4, 2026 When Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed a top-secret MiG-25 at a Japanese airport in September 1976… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 4, 2026 In October 2002, a Russian scientist named Dimitri Malashenkov stood up at a space conference in Houston… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 4, 2026 In May 2017, an NSA contractor named Reality Winner mailed a printed classified document to a news… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Jun 2, 2026 Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft's Redmond campus, the background sound is so far… By Make Tech Easier Editorial