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Oct 19 WhatsApp shows your profile photo to every user by default, and Settings > Privacy > Profile photo is where you switch… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 19 Sound stickers, a toggle to remove the sticker outline and a two-line compose box are in WhatsApp's beta code, per an… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 19 On 3 December 1992 a 22-year-old Sema Group engineer typed "Merry Christmas" on a PC and sent it over Vodafone UK's… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 19 An 18-year-old in West Cork, Ireland mixed vegetable oil with magnetite powder to make a magnetic liquid that grabs… Brendan Brown
Oct 19 A steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1855 and shipped to India to haul mail trains was still pulling passenger trips… Brendan Brown
Oct 19 A 2019 claim that Britain could cut 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year if everyone sent one fewer “thank you” email went… Brendan Brown
Oct 19 Galileo’s main antenna jammed on its way to Jupiter, leaving a small antenna that could manage about 10 bits per second… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 18 NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops go on sale from $2,399, pairing a Blackwell RTX GPU and a Grace CPU on one superchip. Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 18 How to invite someone without a WhatsApp account to a WhatsApp call by creating a call link in the Calls tab. Make Tech Easier Editorial
Oct 13 A 14-year-old in Pennsylvania mounted a webcam outside her family’s Jeep and projected the feed onto the pillar beside… Brendan Brown
Oct 13 A bell in an Oxford University physics lab has been ringing almost nonstop since 1840 on the same pair of dry-pile… Brendan Brown
Sep 24 Only about 60 ships in the world can fix a broken undersea cable Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 Microsoft warns fake passkey setup requests are being used to compromise work accounts Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions reach end of updates on October 13, 2026 Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 A 12-year-old in Silicon Valley asked his parents how blind people read, was told to go Google it, and built a braille… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 The computer driving NASA's Perseverance rover across Mars is a $200,000 version of the chip from the 1998 iMac… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 Every morning in the city next door to Silicon Valley, staff load three 5.25-inch floppy disks to boot the computers… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 24 Microsoft sealed hundreds of servers in a nitrogen-filled cylinder and sank it 117 feet to the seabed off Scotland's… Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 22 When you type bbc.com, the browser may trigger several invisible network exchanges Make Tech Easier Editorial
Sep 21 Christopher Latham Sholes, the printer and Wisconsin state senator who designed the QWERTY keyboard, was appointed… Make Tech Easier Editorial