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One of the problems with planetary science is that you generally cannot easily investigate the exact conditions in th...
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I started writing this from a commuter train passing at speed through the outskirts of London, and my headset had jus...
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Recently [John Spicer] of the EDG C++ compiler front-end project announced that the project will be made open source,...
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Although Android is essentially just another Linux distribution, most people only experience it in the form of the ra...
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USB-C Power Delivery (PD) has been a boon to anyone working with low-voltage DC power, because at a stroke it replace...
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Large language models (LLMs) output language, but they are commonly tasked with making a decision or classification o...
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There are some projects that seem at first sight to be easy, but anyone who tries them finds a whole heap of unexpect...
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With the rise of synthetic polymers in everywhere from clothing, packaging and beyond, we have also seen a correspond...
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Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D print...
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Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simpl...
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The discerning modern gamer’s quest is to find a quieter computer without sacrificing performance. That proves challe...
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Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to “silencers” on firearms. On screen, a suppressed pistol makes a pi...
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Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to fo...
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Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t ...
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Although VHS-based games have existed for about as long as VHS players have sat in millions of living rooms, they alw...
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It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboar...
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Back in the old days the IBM-PC, like most of its contemporary computers, shipped with BASIC in ROM. Even after it st...
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One fascinating thing about a pulsed laser is that, though the average power may be measured in watts or milliwatts, ...
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If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its ...
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When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy...