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Jun 1, 2026 In November 1988, an unmanned Soviet space shuttle called Buran flew a full orbital mission and landed… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 1, 2026 In 1901, sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera pulled a corroded lump of bronze out of a… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 1, 2026 When Boeing 747-400 pilots needed to update their navigation database as late as 2020, a technician… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
Jun 1, 2026 When the U.S. military finally deployed frequency-hopping spread spectrum on Navy ships during the 1962… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 In the small hours of 2 September 1859, a telegraph operator in Portland, Maine disconnected his… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 In 1992, a container ship leaving Hong Kong lost 28,800 plastic bath toys overboard in the North… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 In 1942, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr and avant-garde composer George Antheil received US Patent… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 31, 2026 In 1979, a Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara built the first Walkman prototype in four days because… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 30, 2026 In 1985, registering a .com domain cost nothing, required a technical request rather than a shopping… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 29, 2026 In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 carrying a map that uses 14 pulsars to pinpoint Earth's exact position… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 29, 2026 In 1962, a single missing character in NASA's guidance software doomed Mariner 1 just minutes after… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 29, 2026 In 1985, a 14-year-old in Britain could legally drive a Sinclair C5 down a dual carriageway at 15 miles… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 29, 2026 In 1962, the US detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb 250 miles above the Pacific in a test called… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 28, 2026 In 2014, a simple counting glitch known as the "Gangnam Style bug" forced YouTube to completely rewrite… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 28, 2026 In the early 1970s, a phone phreak nicknamed "Captain Crunch" became famous for a startling trick By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 28, 2026 When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 27, 2026 When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 27, 2026 In 2020, Philipp Heck’s team dated forty presolar grains from Australia’s Murchison meteorite and found… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
May 27, 2026 On 15 September 2017, NASA engineers deliberately steered the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn's… By Make Tech Easier Editorial