Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all ...

With the rise of AI coding assistants continuing apparently unabated, some project maintainers have begun striking back. Ars Technica reports on projects putting hostile directions into the ...

Although cryocoolers are capable of pretty impressive cooling, for many of them the underlying working principle is simple ...

First introduced in 1979 by Signetics, the NE5532 was a pretty spiffy dual op-amp for the time with low noise and low ...

One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author ...

In that awkward transition phase between electromechanical accounting systems used in the 1940s and the introduction of fully ...

One of the fun aspects of astrophysics is that much of it involves phenomena which you cannot exactly study from up close, ...

Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has become increasingly essential as more and more web content vanishes into the ether or is ...

There are a lot of traditional features of a bike that rarely change. The spokes, the chain, and the inability for it to take ...

If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that there are ...

When the topic of ‘electrolysis’ is mentioned, people typically think of just splitting plain old dihydrogen monoxide (hydric ...

We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine ...