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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to revolutionize the online shopping ...

The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or ...

If you have a metal lathe just looking for some work, why not make your own lock nuts? That’s what [my mechanics insight] did ...

How can you tell if your software is doing what it’s supposed to? Write some tests and run them every time you change ...