Entries
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[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a ...
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One of the major strengths of the BASIC programming languages has always been their no-fuss setup and rich set of com...
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AI chatbots are everywhere these days, and they seem to “know” about everything. But while that is a strength, it can...
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Calculators are so ubiquitous and so familiar that they are easy to take for granted in many different ways. [lcamtuf...
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Sometimes you see a project and immediately, before going into the details, your mind throws up the old refrain: “cou...
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Modern video games are nothing short of amazing. My son and I were playing through the one of the latest Zeldas, whic...
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Researchers demonstrate that something interesting happens when a small drone with a spindly airframe spins at a high...
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Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bur...
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3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] o...
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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...