AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they ...

USB-C has enabled a lot of great things, most notably removing the no less than three attempts to plug in the cable correctly, but gone are the days of just 5V over those lines. [Meticulous ...

So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now between your grandma asking ChatGPT how to code in Python or ...

Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice ...

Aside from GPUs, you don’t hear much about co-processors these days. [bitluni] perhaps missed those days, because he found a ...

From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles ...

If you’re a solo musician, you probably have lots of gear you’d like to control, but you don’t have enough hands. You can ...

Bees are incredible insects that live and die for their hive, producing rich honey in complicated hive structures. The ...

Some people can’t be bothered to read the analog face of a traditional clock. Some people cannot stand the low frequency “hum ...

Gone are the days when all smart devices were required an internet uplink. The WiFi-enabled IoT fad, while still upon us (no, my coffee scale doesn’t need to be on the network, dammit!) has ...

It’s Independence Day here in the USA, but if you’re not a fan of fireworks and hot dogs, Elliot and Dan’s rundown of the ...

We’ve just begun to receive entries to the One Hertz Challenge, but we already have an entry by [Mike Coats] that explicitly demands to be awarded last place: the Metronalmost, a metronome ...