Drive along nearly any major road in the United States and it won’t be long before you see evidence of...
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We’ve all got our favorite hand tools, and while the selection criteria are usually pretty subjective, it usually boils down...
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become active along with the basic...
When you were five, you probably spotted your best friend running at “a million miles an hour” when they beat...
When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But...
Some old computer languages are destined to never die. They do, however, evolve. For example, Fortran, among the oldest of...
I try not to go off on security rants in the newsletter, but this week I’m unable to hold back....
When the Raspberry Pi 5 SBC was released last year, it came in 4 and 8 GB RAM variants, which...
There may not be many radio astronomy printouts that have achieved universal fame, but the one from Ohio State University’s...
In today’s value-engineered world, getting a decade of service out of a cordless tool is pretty impressive. By that point...
We live in a time where there’s virtually no excuse not to have some kind of oscilloscope. As shows in...
Recently the Christie’s auction house released the list of items that would be going up for sale as part of...
Everyone likes a good lunar landing simulator, and wrote a fun take on the idea: your goal is to write...
Battery news typically covers the latest, greatest laboratory or industry breakthroughs to push modern devices further and faster. Could you...
Entangled photons are an ideal choice for large-scale networks employing quantum encryption or similar, as photons can use fiber-optical cables...
In the past few years, the price-per-watt for solar panels has dropped dramatically. This has led to a number of...
Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are long gone, thankfully, and rechargeable...
Recently Canada’s Canadarm2 caught its 50th spacecraft in the form of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo vessel since 2009. Although...
Although the designation ‘Air Force One’ is now commonly known to refer to the airplane used by the President of...
Time zones are a complicated but necessary evil. Humans like the numbers on the clock to vaguely match up with...
One of the most sought after substances in the Universe is water – especially in its liquid form – as...
There are many forms of human interface device beyond the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse, but when it comes to fine-tuning...
How hard is it to make a fully standalone SDR? shows you how to take a breadboard, a PI Pico,...
There’s something inspiring about echos. Who among us hasn’t called out or clapped hands in a large space just to...
The decline of AM broadcast radio is a slow but inexorable process over much of the world, but for regions...
