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Jun 9 French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 9 When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 9 When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 9 The original iPhone Steve Jobs unveiled in January 2007 could not record video, could not copy and paste text, could… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 In 1965, Joe Sutter’s Boeing team began shaping the 747 around a future they thought would belong to supersonic jets… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 Apple’s original 1984 Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys, no function keys, and no numeric pad because Steve Jobs… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 Masahiro Hara and Denso engineers built the QR code in 1994 to help Toyota suppliers scan car parts from any angle… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes wrote LAP6 for the LINC computer from her parents' Baltimore home, testing an interactive… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 When Grace Hopper wanted to explain a nanosecond to admirals who kept asking why satellites were slow, she handed each… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact frequency at which… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 When Doug Wheelock came home after 163 days in space, he said he had craved the aroma of leaves, grass, flowers, and… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 When Frank Maixner’s team reconstructed Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old stomach bacterium in 2016, the Helicobacter… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 When Cingular chief Stan Sigman backed the original iPhone before its 2007 unveiling, he accepted terms American… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 8 Every year, roughly two billion new smartphones, laptops, and tablets ship with a key arrangement designed in the 1870s… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 6 Tristan Harris, Google's former design ethicist, told the US Senate that the pull-to-refresh gesture on nearly every… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 6 In 1969, László Bélády and two IBM colleagues published a paging-machine anomaly showing FIFO could make four memory… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 6 In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 Otto von Bismarck was 74 when Germany adopted the world’s first national old-age social insurance program in 1889… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
Jun 5 When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team