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May 30 A four-month-old Chinese startup just launched a $118 AI collar that claims to translate dog and cat vocalizations into… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 The computer that landed Apollo 11 stored its code in "rope memory" that was physically woven by hand by a workforce of… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 The U.S. Army has officially pushed "jailbroken" software updates to active weapon systems in the Middle East Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 Five years ago, a group of researchers walked out of OpenAI over safety concerns to build a quiet rival named Claude Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos AI has proven so terrifyingly good at hacking legacy software that the firm locked… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 OpenAI has launched a massive $4 billion corporate engineering initiative called "DeployCo" to embed elite developers… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 Stanford scientists just built a room-temperature quantum device that uses "twisted light" to connect electrons and… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 A breakthrough in solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries has quietly achieved double the energy density of standard EV… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 30 In 1985, registering a .com domain cost nothing, required a technical request rather than a shopping cart, and produced… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 29 In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 carrying a map that uses 14 pulsars to pinpoint Earth's exact position in the Milky… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 29 Adults who find it physically painful to ask for help, even when they are completely overwhelmed, usually aren't proud Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 29 In 1962, a single missing character in NASA's guidance software doomed Mariner 1 just minutes after launch Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 29 In 1985, a 14-year-old in Britain could legally drive a Sinclair C5 down a dual carriageway at 15 miles per hour with… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 29 In 1962, the US detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear bomb 250 miles above the Pacific in a test called Starfish Prime, and… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 Research says people who never post on social media aren't antisocial, secretive, or behind the times Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 The Voyager Golden Record has a small sample of uranium electroplated onto its cover, put there so that whoever finds… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 Cognitive scientists have a name for the moment you finish a page and realize you took in none of it, and a Harvard… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 When headlines declared that an MIT study had proven ChatGPT "makes you stupid," the researchers behind it posted a… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team