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By How It Works · Sep 10, 2026

How did a metal box first secured to a converted tanker in April 1956 cut ocean freight loading costs by more than 90…

Sep 9 In December 2014, Google introduced a reCAPTCHA checkbox that let many users skip distorted letters while the system… How It Works
Sep 8 Microsoft didn't just stop shipping Flash with Windows 10 Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Sep 7 A phone knows which way is up because a silicon chip smaller than a grain of rice contains tiny cantilever beams that… How It Works
Sep 7 The first GIF ever made was a picture of an airplane Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Sep 4 Kishi Station in Wakayama Prefecture was destaffed in April 2006 to cut costs, then handed over the following year to a… How It Works
Sep 3 The ROICE program at the University of Houston started in 2022 as a thought experiment about what to do with thousands… How It Works
Sep 2 Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012 and still transmits from more than 24 billion kilometres away… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Sep 1 How did a phone game released in July 2016 briefly double foot traffic to small businesses near landmarks, and why did… How It Works
Aug 31 End-to-end encryption hides what you said, but metadata the app or carrier may still hold How It Works
Aug 21 How does a fibre-optic strand thinner than a spaghetti noodle carry a signal across 13,000 kilometres of ocean without… How It Works
Aug 20 Wi-Fi signals struggle through walls not because concrete is thick, but because water in the plaster absorbs 2.4 GHz… How It Works
Aug 20 Voyager 1 is now more than 25 billion kilometres from Earth, and its transmitter runs on about 22 watts Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Aug 18 How did a rubber gasket the size of a dinner plate, stiffened overnight in a Florida cold snap, rewrite the way NASA… How It Works
Aug 18 A QR code's three corner squares aren't decoration How It Works
Aug 17 When your phone shoots a portrait, the blurred background isn't optical How It Works
Aug 17 How did a country with no large rivers and limited land to collect rain build the capacity to meet up to 40 per cent of… How It Works
Aug 16 How did a cracked rubber O-ring the size of a coin, stiffened by a Florida cold snap in January 1986, destroy a space… How It Works
Aug 12 The rarest form of mental strength in adult life isn't discipline or resilience, it's the capacity to sit inside an… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Aug 12 The 'root' of the internet is 13 named server clusters How It Works