For immediate release – May 22, 2025: We continue to receive reports from RAC members of phishing attempts by someone...
Computers
Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these...
The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the...
Sebastian Delmont (KI2D) is the 2025 recipient of the Amateur Radio Software Award for his efforts developing Ham2K Portable Logger....
The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display —...
Surely by now you’ve at least heard of RTL-SDR — a software project that let’s cheap TV tuner dongles work...
Over the history of the Web, we have seen several major shifts in browsing software. If you’re old enough to...
Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different...
Despite a general lack of real-world experience, many teenagers are overly confident in their opinions, often to the point of...
There have been several attempts to make an unencumbered version of Windows. ReactOS is perhaps the best-known, although you could...
If you’re familiar with Java here in 2025, the programming language you know is a world away from what Sun...
FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the...
In an ideal world, devoid of pesky details like contact resistance and manufacturing imperfections, you would be able to double...
In a move that could have been seen coming from at least a decade away, Microsoft has confirmed that the...
The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the...
Join us on Wednesday, January 15 at noon Pacific for the Raspberry Pi Hack Chat with Eben Upton! The Hack...
There’s a paradox in amateur radio: after all the time and effort spent getting a license and all the expense...
Simple Conversational Amateur Message Protocol (SCAMP) is a weak signal digital mode developed by Dr. Daniel Marks (KW4TI). Originally integrated...
For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of...
The web browser started life as a relatively simple hypertext reading application, but over the 30+ years since the first...
Have you ever considered running your ham radio remotely? It has been feasible for years but not always easy. Recently,...
Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a...
There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing,...
The world of the overclocker contains many arcane tweaks to squeeze the last drops of performance from a computer, many...
To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a...
