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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
Jul 27 Content and cloud networks now account for three-quarters of used international bandwidth, while Google, Meta… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 In 1987, a year after the breakthrough that revived high-temperature superconductivity, physicists cooled a ceramic of… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 Your phone's 'battery health' number is mostly marketing How It Works
Jul 27 GPS satellites tick about 38 microseconds a day faster than clocks on Earth Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 Every year about 27.7 million tonnes of Saharan dust cross the Atlantic on the trade winds, and NASA's CALIPSO… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 A CAPTCHA no longer asks whether you can read wobbly letters Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 How did a Dutch prime minister's 1973 decision to ban cars every Sunday accidentally turn a whole country into the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 27 Your SSD doesn't forget files the way a hard drive does How It Works
Jul 24 In 2026, scientists assembled the Greenland shark’s 5.9-billion-letter genome and examined retinas from animals more… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 24 At 3 gigahertz, a processor has only a third of a nanosecond between clock ticks, enough time for light to travel about… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 24 When Adobe announced Flash's end-of-life in July 2017, it closed a technology that had once run on 99 per cent of… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 24 When Japan’s trade ministry put the PlayStation 2 under export control in April 2000, its 6.2-gigaflop hardware was… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team