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Smartphone Battery Dying Faster? The Truth Manufacturer...

We analyze why smartphone battery life plummets after the first year. We uncover...

Smartphone cameras: why megapixels no longer matter in ...

We analyze why numerical resolution no longer defines image quality on smartphon...

New SMS scam drains bank accounts in 30 seconds: how to...

We analyze the technical and psychological mechanism behind the new wave of bank...

Once Upon a Time on the Web: What Was the First .com Do...

On March 15, 1985, the first .com domain was registered, predating the birth of ...

Why does Bluetooth use a Viking rune symbol? The real s...

Discover the true story behind the Bluetooth logo, a blend of wireless technolog...

The Invisible Pixel: How Newsletters Know Exactly When ...

A technical journey into email infrastructure: discovering how a transparent sin...

Did you know the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow y...

We analyze why we still use a layout devised in 1873 for mechanical machines. Di...

How much data do we create?

We analyze the dizzying growth of global data volumes, exploring what it really ...

Email is older than the Web: the paradox of the technol...

Electronic mail precedes the World Wide Web by almost twenty years. We analyze w...

CAPTCHA Is Us: The Invisible Labor Behind Human Verific...

We analyze how verification systems serve not just security, but transform users...

Why Do We Call It SPAM? The Unlikely Origin Between Can...

Discover why junk mail is called SPAM. An historical and technical analysis of h...

The Weight of Knowledge: Why the Internet Weighs as Muc...

The Internet is not as ethereal as it seems. Although the mass of electrons comp...

Innovation starts with bricks: why Google's first serve...

In 1996, a 40 GB server housed in a LEGO case changed the concept of data center...

When Google Was BackRub: The Insight on Links That Stil...

In 1996, the world's most powerful search engine was born under the name BackRub...

The Eight-Zero Paradox: What the Nuclear Password Teach...

We analyze the famous case of the "00000000" launch password to understand the p...

When Data Weighed a Ton: The Physical Legacy of the Fir...

A journey into the materiality of 1956 computing, when storing 5 Megabytes meant...

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