In Pictures: 15 amazing tech feats and world records

Not to be outdone by athletes at this summer’s Olympic games, techies have been setting some world records of their own of late.

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We think we’ve found a partner for website tattoo man. Justin Bank of Illinois has the record for the most Mozilla Firefox browser tabs open at once with 11,411. He initially held the record with 5,231 tabs open, but that was promptly beaten by Dave Betten, who opened 10,554 tabs. Not to be outdone, Bank responded by opening up almost 1,000 additional tabs on top of Betten’s total. He also has a record for Google Chrome tabs open (pictured) at 2,012.

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