In an era where running a website without HTTPS is shunned, and everyone wants you to encrypt your DNS queries, you’d expect ...

One of the lost pleasures of our modern world is the experience of going shopping at a grocery store, a mall, or a drugstore, ...

We always enjoy videos from [w2aew]. His recent entry looks at vertical or VFETs, which are, as he puts it, a JFET that ...

There was a bit of a kerfuffle this week with the news that an airliner had been hit by space junk. The plane, a United Airlines 737, was operating at 36,000 feet on a flight between Denver and ...

Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite ...

If you ever wanted to win a bar bet about a world record, you probably know about the Guinness book for World Records. Did ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work ...

It’s something of a shock to be reminded that Microsoft’s Windows 95 is now 30 years old — but the PC operating system that ...

In our modern semi-dystopia, it seems like most companies add automation features to their products to lock them down and get ...

Paul McCabe] wrote in to let us know about his $25 robot. This small wheeled robot is based on an ESP32 and made using ...

If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], ...

It’s just about all we can think about over here: the week leading up to the 2025 Superconference. From what we hear, it’s ...