It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are at least somewhat ...

We’ve often said that some technological advancements seemed like alien technology for their time. Sometimes we look back and think something would be easy until we realize they didn’t ...

Cartridge-based consoles have often been celebrated for their robust and reliable media. You put a simple ROM chip in a tough ...

These days, you get a fantastic camera with the purchase of just about any modern smartphone. [Abe] missed some of the charm ...

Modern hospitals use a lot of computers. Architecturally speaking, they’re pretty typical machines—running the same CPUs and ...

The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator.  The devil here is, of course, in all ...

The Amiga 600 was in its day the machine nobody really wanted — a final attempt to flog the almost original spec 68000 platform from 1985, in 1992. Sure it had a PCMCIA slot nobody used, and ...

Hopscotch is a game usually played with painted lines or with the aid of a bit of chalk. However, if you desire fancier equipment, you might like the interactive hopscotch setup from [epatell].

Once upon a time, transmutation of the elements was a really big deal. Alchemists drove their patrons near to bankruptcy chasing the philosopher’s stone to no avail, but at least we got ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

The PC has had its fair share of bus slots. What started with the ISA bus has culminated, so far, in PCI Express slots, M.2 ...

With the availability of increasingly cheaper equipment, welding has become far more accessible these days. While this is ...