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By Make Tech Easier Editorial Team · Aug 3, 2026

How did one music video expose YouTube’s 32-bit ceiling at 2,147,483,647 views in late 2014 without actually breaking…

Aug 3 Bluetooth was named after a 10th-century Viking king who united Denmark and Norway Justin Brown
Jul 31 When you type an address into a browser, your computer asks a DNS resolver for the site's numeric address, and the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 31 How did a guidance computer with 4 kilobytes of memory, less than a modern greeting card chip, land Apollo 11 on the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 30 Fast charging isn't killing your battery Justin Brown
Jul 30 Deleting a file usually doesn't erase it Justin Brown
Jul 30 A password manager stores your vault in the cloud as encrypted ciphertext, not readable passwords, which is why… Justin Brown
Jul 29 Airplane mode was never just about planes Justin Brown
Jul 29 Incognito mode was never private Justin Brown
Jul 28 HTTPS doesn't encrypt which sites you visit Justin Brown
Jul 27 In 1947, Harvard’s Mark II ran on roughly 13,000 electromechanical relays, stored numbers across 100 registers, and… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 In 1971, engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email between two computers sitting side by side in the same… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 How did a single computer worm written by a Cornell graduate student in November 1988 crash roughly 6,000 machines and… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 When you tilt a smartphone, gravity shifts microscopic silicon fingers inside its accelerometer by only a few… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 A microwave oven works because water molecules have a slight positive and negative end Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 The retina of the mantis shrimp carries twelve types of colour receptor to the human eye's three Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 When a lightning return stroke heats a channel only centimetres wide to roughly 30,000 kelvin, about five times the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 In October 1957, a beachball-sized aluminium sphere called Sputnik 1 began sending 0.3-second pulses on two radio… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 In 1968, Douglas Engelbart sat before roughly 1,000 computing professionals in San Francisco and demonstrated the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 How did a 1956 shipping container standardised at 8 by 8 by 20 feet cut cargo loading costs from about $5.83 a tonne to… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team