If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in ...

An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...

Your project doesn’t necessarily have to be a refined masterpiece to have an impact on the global hacker hivemind. Case in ...

Oliver Pett] loves creating automata; pieces of art whose physicality and motion come together to deliver something unique.

If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing ...

Regardless of what you think of GPT and the associated AI hype, you have to admit that it is probably here to stay, at least in some form. But how, exactly, does it work? Well, MicroGPT will show ...

On the list of cars widely regarded as the most reliable vehicles ever built, up there with the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Honda Civic, and the Mercedes W123 diesels, is the unassuming Toyota Prius.

True or false? Your green laser pointer is more powerful than your red one. The answer is almost certainly false. They are, most likely, the same power, but your eye is far more sensitive to ...

Although it can be hard to imagine in today’s semiconductor-powered, digital world, there was electrical technology around before the widespread adoption of the transistor in the latter half of the ...

A lot of hacks get inspired by science fiction. When that inspiration is taken from the boob tube or the silver screen, the ...

Getting PCBs made is often the key step in taking a dodgy lab experiment and turning it into a functional piece of equipment.

It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content – whether it’s code, text or graphics – keeps pushing people ...