Although humanity was hoping for a more optimistic robotic future in the post-war era, with media reflecting that sentiment ...

Phosphor-based displays like CRTs rely on the phosphor to emit light for a set amount of time after being activated, allowing ...

Life was simpler when everything your computer did was text-based. It is easy enough to shove data into one end of a pipe and ...

By default, bash is the most popular command language simply because it’s included in most *nix operating systems.

Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at frequencies beyond the limit of our ...

If you live near Central Park or some other local chess hub, you’re likely never short of opponents for a good game. If you ...

Imagine you own a weather station. Then imagine that after some years have passed, you’ve had to replace one of the sensors ...

There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun, but to save money, they are going at night. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close ...

Stephen] has a basement that depends on a sump pump. What that means is if the pump fails or the power goes out, the basement ...

For a lot of electrical and mechanical machines, there are nominal and peak ratings for energy output or input. If you’re in marketing or advertising, you’ll typically look at the peak ...

Analog dials used to be a pretty common way of displaying information on test equipment and in industrial applications. They ...

Folaefolc] was craving a new keyboard build a few weeks ago and got inspired by the humble 3.5″ floppy disk. So much so that he decided to make a split keyboard with each half having the ...