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Jul 23 Wi-Fi doesn't actually slow down when a café gets crowded Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 23 In a Milwaukee workshop in the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes spent years rearranging the keys of his mechanical… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 23 People who are truly pleasant and kind but have no close friends often spent decades being the one everyone called… Brendan Brown
Jul 23 Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks Brendan Brown
Jul 22 Ray-finned fishes evolved bioluminescence at least 27 chemistry and others by housing luminous bacteria, a repeated… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 22 The Sun is actually white — the yellow we see is Earth's atmosphere scattering the shorter blue wavelengths away before… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 22 In 1858, engineers laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 22 In 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell graduate student named Robert Morris released a self-replicating program to measure the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 22 Noise-cancelling headphones don't block sound, they generate its exact mirror image Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 22 When you delete a file, the data itself stays on the disk untouched Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 22 The Apollo guidance computer that landed astronauts on the Moon ran on 64 kilobytes of memory, and its programs were… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 21 In July 2026, Psy’s Gangnam Style passed six billion YouTube views, fourteen years after its horse-riding dance became… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 21 Your phone does not actually know how much battery it has left Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 21 Each year, roughly 27.7 million tonnes of dust lift off the Sahara, cross the Atlantic on the trade winds, and fall on… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 21 The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead run their clocks about 38 microseconds faster per day than… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 21 When you type an address into a browser, your computer first asks a DNS resolver for the site's IP Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 21 Psychology says the rarest mental strength today isn't resilience or grit Brendan Brown
Jul 21 Psychology says the loneliest people in life aren't the ones nobody likes Brendan Brown
Jul 21 Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 25 billion kilometres away, powered by less than 250 watts of decaying… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jul 20 In September 1947, engineers at Harvard pulled a moth from a relay inside the Mark II computer, taped it into the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team