People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating ...

If you have any empathy at all for those of us in the journalistic profession, have some pity for the poor editor at the ...

Sometimes, all you need to make something work is to come at it from a different angle from anyone else — flip the problem on its head, so to speak. That’s what [Keizo Ishibashi] did ...

X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization ...

Running DOOM on ARM? Old hat. Running Doom (2016) on an ARM SBC? Well, that’s a bit more interesting, and [Interfacing Linux] ...

These are tough times for American hackers, and rife with uncertainty. Trade wars are on, off, on again– who can keep track?

From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles surged in popularity, while Apple was able to more closely guard the ...

Aside from GPUs, you don’t hear much about co-processors these days. [bitluni] perhaps missed those days, because he found a ...

AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they ...

Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t ...

If the idea of reading a physical book sounds like hard work, [Nick Bild’s] latest project, the PageParrot, might be for you.

Normally you can’t read out the One Time Programming (OTP) memory in Microchip’s PIC MCUs that have code protection enabled, ...