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Zero-Day Vulnerabilities: The Hidden Flaws Governments Pay Millions For
Oct 8, 202627 min
Sir Clive Sinclair's C5: The Electric Trike That Sank a Tech Legend
Oct 8, 202624 min
The Conficker Worm: 15 Million Infected PCs and an Attack That Never Came
Oct 8, 202616 min
The Blue Screen of Death: Why Windows Crashes in Blue and Who Chose It
Oct 8, 202627 min
Eternal September: When AOL Flooded Usenet and Net Culture Broke
Oct 8, 202620 min
The GIF: How a 1987 Dial-Up Hack Survived a Patent War and Went Viral
Oct 8, 202625 min
The 1997 PalmPilot: The One-Megabyte PDA That IMAX Still Emulates
Oct 8, 202621 min
Social Engineering: How One Scammer Took $100 Million from Tech Giants
Oct 8, 202624 min
HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: How Toshiba Lost $986 Million on the Wrong Disc
Oct 8, 202614 min
The Floppy Disk: From IBM Mainframes to Nuclear Command Systems
Oct 8, 202627 min
The Fax Machine: Patented in 1843 and Still Refusing to Die
Oct 8, 202623 min
The AT&T Picturephone: The Video Call That Arrived 50 Years Too Early
Oct 8, 202620 min
The 8-Track Tape: How an Endless Loop Conquered Cars, Then Crashed
Oct 8, 202626 min
Adam Osborne and the Osborne Effect: What Really Killed His Company
Oct 8, 202623 min
Why 3D Television Died: From 41 Million Sets in 2012 to Zero by 2017
Oct 8, 202620 min
The Y2K Bug: $300 Billion Hoax or a Disaster Narrowly Averted?
Oct 8, 202622 min
WD-40: The Cold War Missile Coating Locked in a San Diego Bank Vault
Oct 8, 202621 min
Gary Kildall: The CP/M Genius Who Lost the IBM Deal to Bill Gates
Oct 8, 202622 min
Kathleen Antonelli: The Irish-Born ENIAC Programmer History Left Out
Oct 8, 202622 min
Nokia 3310: How an Unbreakable Brick Sold 126 Million and Became a Meme
Oct 8, 202622 min
Gary McKinnon: The UFO Hunter Who Hacked the Pentagon and NASA
Oct 8, 202621 min
Wallace Carothers: The Tragic Genius Who Invented Nylon and Never Saw It
Oct 8, 202623 min
Numa Numa: A Jungle Trail, a Romanian Pop Hit, and Gary Brolsma's Meme
Oct 8, 202618 min
Onel de Guzman and the ILOVEYOU Worm: A $10 Billion Bid for Free Dial-Up
Oct 8, 202620 min
WannaCry: The Stolen NSA Weapon, the Ignored Patch, and a Kill Switch
Oct 8, 202626 min
Microsoft Zune: The Mocked iPod Rival That Quietly Shaped Modern Tech
Oct 8, 202622 min
Teletext: The Secret TV Internet Hidden in the Broadcast Signal
Oct 8, 202623 min
The Pocket Calculator: From 33-Pound Desk Machines to a Single Chip
Oct 8, 202623 min
Hello World: How Two Words Became Computing's Universal Sanity Check
Oct 8, 202623 min
Comic Sans: The World's Most Hated Font and Its Scientific Redemption
Oct 8, 202620 min
Vine: How Six-Second Loops Rewired the Internet and Then Vanished
Oct 8, 202621 min
Motorola Razr: The Flip Phone That Broke Its Maker, Then Came Back
Oct 8, 202620 min
Sony Aibo: The Robot Dog That Got a Funeral and a Second Life
Oct 8, 202624 min
Winamp: The Llama, the Lawsuits, and the Leak That Ended an Era
Oct 8, 202623 min
VisiCalc: The First Killer App and Its Seven Year Rise and Fall
Oct 8, 202625 min
Planking: How Lying Face Down Became a Deadly Global Internet Craze
Oct 8, 202620 min
IBM Watson: From Jeopardy Champion to Billion Dollar Burnout
Oct 8, 202623 min
GeoCities: How Yahoo Bought and Buried a City of 38 Million Pages
Oct 8, 202622 min
Eric Migicovsky and Pebble: The Smartwatch That Died and Came Back
Oct 8, 202622 min
Curt Herzstark: The Pocket Calculator Designed Inside Buchenwald
Oct 8, 202623 min
The Traitorous Eight: The 1957 Mutiny That Created Silicon Valley
Oct 8, 202629 min
John von Neumann: The Mind That Built Computers and the Bomb
Oct 8, 202621 min
Ray Tomlinson: The Secret Side Project That Invented Email and the @
Oct 8, 202621 min
Shakey the Robot: The Wobbly 1960s Machine That Taught AI to Plan
Oct 8, 202618 min
Honda ASIMO: The Four Foot Robot That Ran, Fell, and Changed Robotics
Oct 8, 202623 min
Ask Jeeves: The Butler Who Taught the Internet to Ask Questions
Oct 8, 202617 min
Adobe Flash: How a Failed Pen Tool Built the Web and Got Killed
Oct 8, 202621 min
Albert Gonzalez: The Secret Service Informant Who Stole 170 Million Cards
Oct 8, 202624 min
The Homebrew Computer Club: The Garage Meeting That Sparked the PC
Oct 8, 202620 min
The QR Code: From a Go Board and a Car Parts Factory to Everywhere
Oct 8, 202622 min