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Microsoft warns fake passkey setup requests are being used to compromise work accounts
3 days ago
Passkeys let you sign in to your Google Account with a fingerprint...
Only about 60 ships in the world can fix a broken undersea cable — and two-thirds of the repair fleet will hit retirement age by 2040 without a $3 billion fix
3 days ago
Roughly 60 specialized ships worldwide can lay or repair the undersea cables...
Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions reach end of updates on October 13, 2026 — here’s what you must do
3 days ago
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 24H2 Home and Pro editions...
A 12-year-old in Silicon Valley asked his parents how blind people read, was told to go Google it, and built a braille printer from a $349 LEGO robotics kit at the kitchen table — the machines schools were buying cost $2,000, and Intel ended up putting
3 days ago
The whole thing started with a flier and a brush-off. A donation...
Microsoft sealed hundreds of servers in a nitrogen-filled cylinder and sank it 117 feet to the seabed off Scotland’s Orkney Islands in 2018, and when divers hauled it up two years later, crusted in barnacles, the machines had failed at one-eighth the ra
3 days ago
In 2018, Microsoft did something that sounds like a prank: it took...
Every morning in the city next door to Silicon Valley, staff load three 5.25-inch floppy disks to boot the computers that run San Francisco’s subway trains — a 1998 system that moves data slower than dial-up, and replacing it is costing the city $212
3 days ago
A short train ride from the campuses building the world’s most advanced...
The computer driving NASA’s Perseverance rover across Mars is a $200,000 version of the chip from the 1998 iMac, running at 200 megahertz with a couple hundred megabytes of memory — because a processor that shrugs off a million rads of radiation matte
3 days ago
On February 18, 2021, a car-sized robot lowered itself onto the surface...
When you type bbc.com, the browser may trigger several invisible network exchanges: it asks a DNS resolver for the site’s address, opens a TCP connection with three packets, negotiates encryption keys, and only then requests the page, with each uncached
5 days ago
Every web address hides a small negotiation. Before a page arrives, a...
Christopher Latham Sholes, the printer and Wisconsin state senator who designed the QWERTY keyboard, was appointed Milwaukee’s postmaster by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War — he tinkered with a page-numbering machine on the job before turning to
6 days ago
Before he arranged the letters that still sit under nearly every keyboard...
Why did the QWERTY keyboard, arranged in the 1870s to stop mechanical typebars from jamming, outlast every layout designed to beat it over the next 150 years?
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The story that QWERTY was designed to slow typists down is half-true...
Pixel 3 Night Sight can capture a photo in near-darkness because it doesn’t take one picture — it can take up to 15 short exposures, align them with sub-pixel precision and average down the noise while the phone keeps collecting light after you press
9 days ago
Modern phones see in the dark by cheating time. When the shutter...
Screens use red, green and blue because human retinas carry only three types of colour-sensing cones, tuned near those wavelengths — a display isn’t reproducing colour, it’s tricking three specific proteins in your eye into firing in the right ratio
10 days ago
Every colour on a screen is a controlled hallucination. Displays emit only...