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Microsoft sealed hundreds of servers in a nitrogen-filled cylinder and sank it 117 feet to the seabed off Scotland’s Orkney Islands in 2018, and when divers hauled it up two years later, crusted in barnacles, the machines had failed at one-eighth the rate of identical servers on land

Saving Tips September 25, 2026

In 2018, Microsoft did something that sounds like a prank: it took a data center — the kind of humming,…

Why did the QWERTY keyboard, arranged in the 1870s to stop mechanical typebars from jamming, outlast every layout designed to beat it over the next 150 years?

Saving Tips September 21, 2026

The layout on almost every keyboard in the English-speaking world was fixed in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes,…

Reader Spotlight: How Scarr Paid Off $76,000 in 3.5 Years

Loans August 3, 2026

by Ashley“I couldn’t afford to buy more than $10 worth of gas. I had no money in my bank account…

In 1911, the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled a thread of mercury to 4.2 kelvin in a bath of liquid helium and its electrical resistance vanished completely, and a current set circulating in a superconducting loop like that will still be flowing years later, indistinguishable from the day it began

Saving Tips July 24, 2026

Drop a small ring of superconducting metal into a bath of liquid helium, nudge a current through it, and remove…

In a Milwaukee workshop in the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes spent years rearranging the keys of his mechanical Type-Writer so that commonly paired letters sat far apart, ensuring the metal typebars would swing from different directions and not jam mid-word

Saving Tips July 23, 2026

In a Milwaukee workshop in 1868, a former newspaper editor named Christopher Latham Sholes filed a patent for a machine…

In July 2026, Psy’s Gangnam Style passed six billion YouTube views, fourteen years after its horse-riding dance became the platform’s first billion-view video and long after engineers had replaced a counter designed to stop at 2,147,483,647

Saving Tips July 21, 2026

Psy is still galloping across YouTube, and the number beneath Gangnam Style has now passed six billion. The music video…

DHS Set to End ‘Duration of Status,’ Capping International Student Stays at 4 Years

Loans June 24, 2026

A federal rule years in the making is nearing the finish line, and it could reset how long international students…

I’m 55 and retiring in 6 years. Should I be switching to Roth 401(k) contributions now?

Personal Finance June 19, 2026

People are still holding back on participating in Roth plans at work, Vanguard says.

Syracuse University Admits First Budget Deficit in Years After Missing 2026 Enrollment

Passive Income June 16, 2026

Key PointsSyracuse University will miss its Fall 2026 undergraduate enrollment target and run its first budget deficit in years, Chancellor…

Distribution May Be The Last Moat: 17 Years Of Financial Samurai

Personal Finance June 15, 2026

Back in 2012, the year I left banking, I had a choice: build a lifestyle business or build a venture-backed…