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May 28 In 1245, London engineers built a massive underground lead pipe to bring fresh water three miles into the heart of the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 A famous African Grey parrot named Alex became the first and only animal to ever ask an existential question about… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 In 2014, a simple counting glitch known as the "Gangnam Style bug" forced YouTube to completely rewrite its core… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 In the early 1970s, a phone phreak nicknamed "Captain Crunch" became famous for a startling trick Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 Sony's PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 28 When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes's… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 The legendary video game Pac-Man doesn't actually have an ending—instead, a single 8-bit integer overflow bug causes… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 When Microsoft was developing Windows 95, developers discovered that SimCity had a severe memory bug that caused it to… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 When a massive solar storm hit Earth in 1972, it triggered a series of magnetic fluctuations so severe that it… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with onboard computers holding less memory than a single photo on a modern phone Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 Most astronauts are trained for the science of spaceflight, but many come home changed by something nobody can fully… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 People who turn off phone notifications aren’t avoiding connection Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 For decades, marine biologists have tracked a lone whale in the North Pacific known as "52 Blue" because it calls at a… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 In 2020, Philipp Heck’s team dated forty presolar grains from Australia’s Murchison meteorite and found stardust as old… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 On 15 September 2017, NASA engineers deliberately steered the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn's atmosphere at 70,000… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 When Konrad Zuse switched on the Z3 in his Berlin workshop in May 1941, he had just built the first programmable… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 At Kyoto University's Seto Marine Biological Laboratory on the Shirahama coast, biologist Shin Kubota has watched the… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team
May 27 In August 1993, Garry Trudeau spent a week turning Apple's new Newton MessagePad into a Doonesbury joke, including a… Make Tech Easier Editorial Team