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An exoskeleton that helps you walk on any terrain has been created.

The Hypershell Halo is an exoskeleton for outdoor activities, weighing 2.6 kilograms with a range of 20 kilometres…

Collisions of oxygen and neon at CERN have recreated the matter of the early Universe.

Collisions of oxygen-16 and neon-20 at CERN produced quark-gluon plasma, the primordial matter of the Universe. The…

IBM's first hard drive, in 1956, weighed about a tonne and stored 5 megabytes.

The IBM 305 RAMAC, from 1956, was the first computer with a hard drive. The drive weighed about a tonne and stored…

The first video published on YouTube is called Me at the zoo.

The first YouTube video, published on 23 April 2005, is called Me at the zoo and shows Jawed Karim, one of the…

The first email was sent in 1971 and used the at sign to separate the user name from the machine.

Ray Tomlinson, an ARPANET engineer, sent the first email in 1971. He chose the at sign because it was not used in…

The world's first website is still online.

The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991 to explain what the World Wide Web was. The page can…

Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th-century Viking king.

The name Bluetooth comes from Harald Bluetooth, a king of Denmark who unified Danish and Norwegian tribes in the 10th…

The first video game was created in 1958 by an American physicist.

The first video game was Tennis for Two, created in 1958 by William Higinbotham, a physicist at Brookhaven National…

The word robot comes from a Czech play from 1920.

The word robot was first used in the play R.U.R., by Czech writer Karel Čapek, in 1920. The word comes from the Czech…

The first floppy disk was 8 inches in diameter.

The first floppy disk was created by IBM in 1971 and was 8 inches in diameter. It stored about 80 kilobytes of data…

Apple's first computer was sold in 1976 for 666.66 dollars.

The Apple I was Apple's first computer, sold in 1976 for 666.66 dollars. It was hand-built by Steve Wozniak and sold…

The.tv domain belongs to the small country of Tuvalu.

The.tv internet domain belongs to the small Pacific island country of Tuvalu. The country licensed the domain in the…

The term Wi-Fi does not mean anything.

Wi-Fi was a name invented by a marketing company for a wireless communication standard. In fact, it does not mean…

Ethernet was invented in the Xerox PARC laboratories.

Ethernet was invented in 1973 by Bob Metcalfe at the Xerox PARC laboratories in California. It was created to connect…

A sand battery can store thermal energy for months.

The sand battery heats sand up to 500 degrees Celsius using surplus electricity from renewable sources. The heat is…

Morse code was invented by Samuel Morse in 1837.

Morse code was invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in 1837 for the telegraph. Each letter is represented by a…

A brain-computer interface managed to decode speech and singing from brain waves.

A system developed by researchers uses artificial intelligence to decode brain waves into expressive speech and even…

Wikipedia exists in more than 300 languages.

Wikipedia exists in more than 300 languages and, in 2024, surpassed 60 million articles across all versions. It is…

The Bitcoin whitepaper was published in 2008 by a person or group called Satoshi Nakamoto.

The document describing Bitcoin, titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, was published in 2008 by…

Google was originally called BackRub.

Google was originally called BackRub, a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University in…

Linux was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991.

The Linux kernel was created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student, in 1991, when he was 21 years old. He made the…

ARPANET was the precursor of the internet.

ARPANET was the first computer network to use the TCP/IP protocol, created in the United States in 1969 by the…

HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991, together with the World Wide Web. It…

Google uses an algorithm called PageRank to rank search results.

PageRank, developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, evaluates the importance of a web page based on the number…