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By Brendan Brown · Oct 13, 2026
A 14-year-old in Pennsylvania mounted a webcam outside her family’s Jeep and projected the feed onto the pillar beside…
- Oct 13 A bell in an Oxford University physics lab has been ringing almost nonstop since 1840 on the same pair of dry-pile… Brendan Brown
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Sep 24
Only about 60 ships in the world can fix a broken undersea cable
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Sep 24
Microsoft warns fake passkey setup requests are being used to compromise work accounts
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Sep 24
Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions reach end of updates on October 13, 2026
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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…
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Sep 24
The computer driving NASA's Perseverance rover across Mars is a $200,000 version of the chip from the 1998 iMac…
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Sep 24
Every morning in the city next door to Silicon Valley, staff load three 5.25-inch floppy disks to boot the computers…
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Sep 24
Microsoft sealed hundreds of servers in a nitrogen-filled cylinder and sank it 117 feet to the seabed off Scotland's…
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Sep 22
When you type bbc.com, the browser may trigger several invisible network exchanges
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Sep 21
Christopher Latham Sholes, the printer and Wisconsin state senator who designed the QWERTY keyboard, was appointed…
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Sep 21
Why did the QWERTY keyboard, arranged in the 1870s to stop mechanical typebars from jamming, outlast every layout…
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Sep 18
Pixel 3 Night Sight can capture a photo in near-darkness because it doesn't take one picture
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Sep 17
Screens use red, green and blue because human retinas carry only three types of colour-sensing cones, tuned near those…
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Sep 16
Voyager 1 is over 15.8 billion miles from Earth and its generators lose about four watts of power every year
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Sep 14
When you delete a file from a traditional hard drive, the operating system usually removes the pointer to it
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Sep 14
The Gulf Offshore Research Institute has been awarded $20 million to turn idle Gulf oil platforms into hubs for energy…
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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…
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Sep 9
In December 2014, Google introduced a reCAPTCHA checkbox that let many users skip distorted letters while the system…
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Sep 8
Microsoft didn't just stop shipping Flash with Windows 10
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