If there’s an enduring image of how large steel structures used to be made, it’s probably the hot riveting process. You’ve probably seen grainy old black-and-white films of a ...

It is a fact of life that 3D-printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers ...

We just got home from Supercon and well, it was super. It was great to see everyone, and meet a whole bunch of new folks to boot! The talks were great, and you can see a good half of them already ...

Usually, designing a CPU is a lengthy process, especially so if you’re making a new ISA too. This is something that can take months or even years before you first get code to run. But what ...

The chances are if you know someone who is a former Apple employee, you’ll have heard their Steve Jobs anecdote, and that it was rather unflattering to the Apple co-founder. I’ve ...

It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got to witness in unprecedented detail ...

Steve Ballmer famously called Linux “viral”, with some not-entirely coherent complaints about the OS. In a hilarious instance ...

A little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the world’s first playable “AI video game” that ...

A characteristic of any thermal power plant — whether using coal, gas or spicy nuclear rocks — is that they have a closed ...

With Superconference 2024 in the books, Dan joined Elliot, fresh off his flight back from Pasadena, to look through the week (or two) in hacks. It was a pretty good crop, too, despite all the ...

Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a large number, it is ...

The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or ...