Technology

Technology What Video Game Saved Atari from Bankruptcy? September 4, 2021

Technology Why Did Saddam Hussein Buy 4,000 Playstation 2 Units? September 3, 2021

Technology Is Los Angeles a Smart City? August 20, 2021

Technology What is the Knuth Reward Check? August 14, 2021

Technology What Happened During the "Days of Shame"? July 22, 2021

Technology How Are the Members of LMFAO Related? July 20, 2021

Technology What Happened to the Brothers Who Won the Lottery Together? June 8, 2021

Technology Who Popularized the Word "Glitch"? May 1, 2021

Technology How Did a Microsoft Font Catch a Fraudster? April 30, 2021

Technology Facebook conducted a study where they intentionally manipulated almost 700,000 users' emotions without their knowledge or permission April 17, 2021

Technology In 1999, a group of hackers discovered that they could enter any Hotmail account by simply entering "eh" as a password. It was fixed by Microsoft within two hours. April 17, 2021

Technology Bill Nye (of Science Guy fame) invented a hydraulic component used on the 747 airliners, and holds three patents for other inventions. April 11, 2021

Technology The reason that some semi-truck trailer doors have quilted patterns on their rear doors is to reduce glare on the vehicles following them. April 5, 2021

Technology Ordinary cheap computer hard drives do not work reliably above 10,000ft in altitude, because they require a cushion of dense air for the magnetic head to float on. Without that air density, the head will scratch the disk. People who live above 10,000ft must buy special hard drives. March 28, 2021

Technology A casino's database was hacked through a smart fish tank thermometer March 22, 2021

Technology The common method for a spacecraft to shift between two orbits is called a Hohmann Transfer, and that the guy who calculated it (in 1925) was inspired by a science fiction book written in 1897, which gave a generally correct explanation of the concept of orbit trajectory January 31, 2021

Technology In 2018, A hacker broke into people's routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn't be abused by other hackers. December 9, 2020

Technology Audio experts could not tell the difference between $100 Monster speaker cables and cables made from soldering together old coat hangers December 7, 2020

Technology PCs in the 80s and 90s often had a "Turbo" button which when pressed would counterintuitively slow down the processor speed to allow compatibility with older games designed for slower processors. November 27, 2020

Technology Babies' cuteness is key to their survival. Cute babies are just extremely hard to ignore, and this is likely hardwired into human brains. Less cute children are treated differently. November 14, 2020