On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU ...

The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a mass ...

My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of collaboration can ...

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s ...

Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter ...

During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation ...

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...

What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they ...

As pointed out by Tom’s Hardware, it’s been 26 years since the introduction of the gigahertz desktop CPU. AMD beat Intel to ...

The various Raspberry Pi camera modules have become the default digital camera hacker’s tool, and have appeared in a huge ...