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Disney+ Expands Language Support to 58 Audio Languages & Adds Right-to-Left Interface | The Walt Disney Company
21 Jul 2026
Disney+ expands its global streaming experience with 58 supported audio languages, more than 30 user interface languages, and new right-to-left capabilities for Arabic and Hebrew.
NFL Fantasy is Moving to ESPN Fantasy: Your Questions Answered | The Walt Disney Company
21 Jul 2026
ESPN Fantasy is welcoming NFL Fantasy Football players to a new home for the 2026 season. We’ve answered the most common questions about moving your league to ESPN Fantasy.
Andres Robles,
14 Jul 2026
Today, Disneyland Resort commemorated another milestone: welcoming the honorary one billionth guest through the gates of Disneyland Park.
Disney and F1 Unveil Mickey Mouse Helmets Supporting Make-A-Wish | The Walt Disney Company
14 Jul 2026
Disney and Formula 1 unveil custom Mickey Mouse racing helmets supporting Make-A-Wish, with proceeds from an F1 Authentics auction helping grant wishes worldwide.
‘Disney Celebrates America’ Takes Over Fourth of July Weekend Nationwide | The Walt Disney Company
14 Jul 2026
Disney has an expansive lineup of experiences, performances, and broadcast moments as part of a company-wide initiative honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Walt Disney Animation Studios
02 Jul 2026
Disney showcased major animation announcements, first looks, exclusive footage, and screenings from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, 20th Television Animation, and Disney Kids & Family at Annecy 2026.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
