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Oct 22 Google Play Store version 53.7 replaces the percent progress on app downloads with an estimated time remaining or the… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 22 A 1,680-ton boring machine that arrived from Germany in about 100 pieces has started chewing into the Palisades cliffs… Brendan Brown
Oct 22 The world's first traffic light stood 6 metres tall outside the Houses of Parliament from 9 December 1868, and after a… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 22 Valve opens Steam Next Fest on 19 October at 10:00 PDT, a week of free demos and developer livestreams that closes 26… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 21 David Bradley wrote Ctrl+Alt+Del into the 1981 IBM PC as a soft reboot for developers, and at the machine's twentieth… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 21 WhatsApp will only support iPhones on iOS 15.5 and newer from 30 November 2026, and it warns affected users inside the… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 21 Turn on Theft Detection Lock under Settings > Google > All services > Theft protection and your Android locks itself… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 21 Otto Rohwedder's bread slicer cut its first commercial loaf at the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri on 7 July… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 21 A 100,000-ton aircraft carrier running four years behind schedule caught its first F-35C on a wire off Virginia on the… Brendan Brown
Oct 21 Cambridge researchers built a camera system to check their coffee in 1991 Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 21 Arduino raises the VENTUNO Q from its $299 introductory price to $399 on 19 October, blaming a sharp rise in memory… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 20 Clyde Dawson picked a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit for the first UPC barcode scan in 1974 because nobody was sure a… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 20 WhatsApp can hide your IP address in calls through Settings, Privacy, Advanced, Protect IP address in calls, at some… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 20 Apple’s first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, starts at $1,999 with a 7.58-inch inner display and is available from 23… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 20 NASA's Kepler telescope lost two of the four wheels it used to aim at stars Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 20 A 990-foot ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record from her maiden voyage in 1952 will be sunk in… Brendan Brown
Oct 20 A 228-year-old wooden warship still in active Navy commission sailed out of Boston this summer for America’s 250th… Brendan Brown
Oct 20 In 2010, the US Air Force stacked more than 1,700 PlayStation 3 consoles on wire shelves and wired them into the… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 20 Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop Fire OS for Android with full Google Play Store access, starting at $229.99 for the… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 20 Anbernic's RG DDS is a dual-screen clamshell handheld modelled on the Nintendo 3DS, with pre-orders at $284.99 and… Make Tech Easier Editorial