The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up.

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When [Electron Impressions] used a powerful ultrasonic array to project a narrow beam of sound toward a target, he described ...

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Washington State’s House Bill 2321 is currently causing a bit of an uproar, as it seeks to add blocking technologies to 3D printers, in order to prevent them from printing “a firearm ...

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough ...

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in ...

We think the click wheel is the biggest contributor to the success of the original iPods. The devices were a brick with a monochrome screen but the user interface was slick and easy to use. [Jason] ...

No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an ...

As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and ...

Despite what the cool kids are doing over on Hackaday Projects, the vast majority of vintage computers used some form of programmable logic for memory control, address decoding, and all that other ...