Many of us will have followed the early history of electronic computing, from the urgent necessities of war, to universities,...
Computers
There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the...
Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum computers hold...
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Packet radio is a particularly fun part of the ham radio hobby. Once upon a time, you might have squirted...
The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a maritime radio communications tool used to allow different vessels to identify each other...
Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that’s not to say that it’s impossible to make...
If you had an 8-bit computer in the 1980s and bought a speech synthesiser for it, what you got was...
Most of us are guilty of romanticizing the past. Do you long to be the captain of a tall ship?...
We’re at a fortunate moment: microcontrollers available at modest prices are edging into the capability level previously reserved for full-fat...
The progression of the web browser from a tool for simple static information browsing into a do-everything computing environment has...
There are many uninterruptible power supply (UPS) solutions for the Raspberry Pi that take the form of HATs with a...
In a recent video addresses an issue discovered with the Raspberry Pi firmware, specifically how since around 2024 the firmware...
In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted...
Hello, I’m George. I am the producer of This Week in Amateur Radio (TWIAR), the weekly amateur radio news and...
In the 1960s, the home computer was barely a twinkle in anyone’s eye. This was the decade in which computers...
Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex...
The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are great little devices, and they can do great things with cameras and...
happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from...
If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi,...
With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from makes some pretty bold claims. But...
Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic...
If you’re water cooling a PC, it’s generally accepted that you need some interface between the coolant and the chips...
FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP,...
Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might...
