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By Make Tech Easier Editorial · Sep 24, 2026

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Sep 24 Microsoft warns fake passkey setup requests are being used to compromise work accounts Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions reach end of updates on October 13, 2026 Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 A 12-year-old in Silicon Valley asked his parents how blind people read, was told to go Google it, and built a braille… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 The computer driving NASA's Perseverance rover across Mars is a $200,000 version of the chip from the 1998 iMac… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 Every morning in the city next door to Silicon Valley, staff load three 5.25-inch floppy disks to boot the computers… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 Microsoft sealed hundreds of servers in a nitrogen-filled cylinder and sank it 117 feet to the seabed off Scotland's… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 22 When you type bbc.com, the browser may trigger several invisible network exchanges Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 21 Christopher Latham Sholes, the printer and Wisconsin state senator who designed the QWERTY keyboard, was appointed… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 21 Why did the QWERTY keyboard, arranged in the 1870s to stop mechanical typebars from jamming, outlast every layout… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 18 Pixel 3 Night Sight can capture a photo in near-darkness because it doesn't take one picture Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 17 Screens use red, green and blue because human retinas carry only three types of colour-sensing cones, tuned near those… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 16 Voyager 1 is over 15.8 billion miles from Earth and its generators lose about four watts of power every year Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 14 When you delete a file from a traditional hard drive, the operating system usually removes the pointer to it Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 14 The Gulf Offshore Research Institute has been awarded $20 million to turn idle Gulf oil platforms into hubs for energy… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 10 How did a metal box first secured to a converted tanker in April 1956 cut ocean freight loading costs by more than 90… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 9 In December 2014, Google introduced a reCAPTCHA checkbox that let many users skip distorted letters while the system… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 8 Microsoft didn't just stop shipping Flash with Windows 10 Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 7 A phone knows which way is up because a silicon chip smaller than a grain of rice contains tiny cantilever beams that… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 7 The first GIF ever made was a picture of an airplane Make Tech Easier Editorial