On this day: Halo 3 launched on Xbox 360
Exactly 19 years ago Bungie's third Halo came out: Forge, saved matches and file sharing appeared in the series for the first time, and its launch sales broke records.
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On this day: Torres y Quevedo’s ‘Telekino’ and a boat with no crew on board
On 25 September 1906, in the port of Bilbao, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo steered the boat 'Vizcaya' from the shore by radio: the signal reached two kilometers, and there were…
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Nevermind Turns 35: How Nirvana’s Second Album Changed Music
On September 24, 1991, Nirvana released Nevermind — the band's second album, its first on a major label and its first with Dave Grohl. The record's polished sound made it…
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On This Day: Gerolamo Cardano — Physician, Mathematician and Gambler
On 24 September 1501, Gerolamo Cardano was born in Pavia: a physician and mathematician who was the first in Europe to use negative numbers systematically, and whose gambling did much…
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On this day: September 23, 2008 saw the release of the first commercial version of Android
On September 23, 2008, Android 1.0 was released — the first commercial version of the system. It was put through its paces in an emulator: there were no test devices…
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On This Day: Yahoo Admitted to a Breach of 500 Million Accounts
On September 22, 2016, Yahoo publicly disclosed for the first time a breach affecting more than 500 million accounts — nearly two years after the hack and amid the sale…
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On this day: 100 years ago, Donald Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber, was born
On September 21, 1926, Donald Glaser was born — the physicist who invented the bubble chamber. The device turned the tracks of elementary particles into photographs and earned its author…
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On This Day: Mathematician Paul Erdős Died 30 Years Ago
On 20 September 1996, Paul Erdős died in Warsaw during a mathematics conference — one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century, with around 1,500 papers and more…
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On 17 September 1991, Torvalds released the first version of the Linux kernel
On 17 September 1991, Linus Torvalds uploaded version 0.01 of the future Linux kernel to the FUNET FTP server — it could not be run: the code only compiled under…
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On This Day: Léon Foucault and the Pendulum That Showed the Earth’s Rotation
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was born in Paris on 18 September 1819 — the physicist who used a pendulum under the dome of the Panthéon to demonstrate the Earth's rotation,…
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On This Day: Leeuwenhoek Spotted Bacteria in His Own Dental Plaque
On September 17, 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek sent the Royal Society in London a letter about the "tiny little animals" he saw in dental plaque. It is considered the first…
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On this day: the Xerox 914 and the start of the era of ordinary copying
On September 16, 1959, the first commercial photocopier, the Xerox 914, was presented to the public in the United States — with it, document copying became a routine office procedure.
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