Entries
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About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovolta...
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A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functio...
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A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event? It’s one that desi...
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It’s a hot one at both microphones, as Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos wilt in the heat with ice lollies and freez...
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There’s an interesting thing about retrocomputing — the moment that you realize your 25-year-old machine can do almos...
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Following the reports last week using the Windows Global Device ID (GDID) in tracking a malware operators behavior, h...
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Built-in batteries put a timebomb inside devices, with especially the calendar aging feature of Li-ion chemistries se...
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Having the information shown on the display of a digital multimeter also recorded off-screen can be incredibly useful...
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In 1675, while transporting a barometer by night, the astronomer Jean Picard noticed a glow inside its glass tube, ju...
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Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21s...
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[Dr. Gough] bought a generic USB 3.0 hub on an Asian website. Surely, USB 3 is mature enough that even the cheapest h...
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CD+Graphics was a format that never really caught on. It let music discs pack some graphics, maybe liner notes, and m...
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Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like plant...
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Some breaking news from geostationary orbit, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announ...
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Even for those of us that are quite technically minded, we spend precious little time thinking about the cables that ...
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Come next year, those looking to explore the globe virtually via Google Earth will have to do so on their smartphone ...
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In order to not hit something, you generally need to know where that thing is. On land, the meager human eyesight ten...
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You may or may not remember in some ancient chemistry class studying or even performing chromatography. The short def...
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Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny — especially for the amount of proces...
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Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300...