Some days, it feels like we’re getting all the bad parts of cyberpunk and none of the cool stuff. Megacorps and cyber warfare? Check. Flying cars and holograms? Not quite yet. This week, ...

If you’re at all familiar with digital computing, you’ll know that computers represent everything in binary values of one and ...

Reading analog clocks is a pretty straightforward skill to learn. However, if you’ve already learned to read and don’t want ...

D printing has had its time to spread its wings into the everyday home, yet many of those homes lack the proper ventilation ...

Platinum-group metals (PGMs) are great catalysts, but they’re also great investments — in the sense that they are very, very expensive. Just ask the guy nicking car exhausts in the ...

Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over eighty ...

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s ...

Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes.

Hacks are of all ages, with the Victorian-era Claymills Pumping Station being no exception. When its old Lancashire boilers ...

During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation with its very ...

Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter ...

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...