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When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price ta...
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For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction...
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Nintendo has made many game consoles in its long history — one that famously overlaps that of the Ottoman Empire — bu...
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In this specially-numbered podcast episode that lines up quite nicely with our Retrocomputing Challenge, Elliot Willi...
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The revival in film photography has brought a range of specialist films to tempt the experimenter, as well as increas...
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Several times this summer, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the monthly roundup of major security patches for Microsoft pro...
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One of the things we used to appreciate about broadcast television is that… you kinda just got what you got. You didn...
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Expressif might not have intended the ESP32-S3 to become an emulation powerhouse, but that’s certainly what has happe...
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Once upon a time, you had to carefully budget your microcontroller’s resources if you wanted to do something as simpl...
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As FDM printers keep getting faster, we are forced to deal with a range of bottlenecks, all of which conspire to hold...
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A fun part of modifying something like a motorbike is that you sometimes have to come up with creative solutions to b...
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Remember those tiny little droids skittering around the pristine corridors of the Death Star in Star Wars? [heychaost...
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There are plenty of ways to capture 3D images or simulations of such if you know what you’re doing with camera hardwa...
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Nifty little AMOLED screens are easy to get nowadays, and [Sophie D] demonstrates they are both thin and light enough...
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Usually in Tech In Plain Sight, we talk about technology you probably see every day, even if you don’t notice it. But...
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Drones have become a potent military threat, particularly on the small scale. Nimble multi-rotor drones are fast, dif...
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E-ink is supposed to be the electronic version of dead-tree paper, but there’s one enormous difference: how you get y...
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Origami is a wonderful art form, but as a new project from the Shibaura Institute of Technology demonstrates, it can ...
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You can 3D print all kinds of things, from Yoda heads to little models of Pikachu. Eventually, though, most of us get...
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This is going to be a very personal question, because when you’re talking cloud vs local anything, it comes down to t...