The fifth generation mobile communications protocol (5G) is perhaps the most complicated wireless protocol ever made.

Data centers and the electrification of devices that previously ran on fossil fuels is driving increased demand for electricity around the world. China is addressing this with a megaproject that ...

We’ve studiously avoided any mention of our latest interstellar visitor, 3I/Atlas, on these pages, mainly because of all the ...

Candle clocks were once an easy way to build a clock without using complex mechanical devices: just observe how quickly a ...

There’s long been a push to stop writing code as a sequence of lines and go to something graphical, which has been very successful in some areas and less so in others. But even when you use ...

Organic Llamas have a rather restricted range, in nature: the Andes Mountains, and that’s it. Humans weren’t content to let the fluffy, friend-shaped creatures stay in their natural ...

It’s hard to argue with nostalgia, but you can toss a bucket of cold facts over it. In the case of the recent rescuing of the Commodore brand from the clutches of relabeling of generic ...

Lately, this peculiar little single wheel monorail came to our attention. Built by [extraglide1976], all from Meccano. His ...

Some people like their homelabs to be as big and fancy as possible, with racks of new or surplus server hardware sucking down power. [Hardware Haven] evidently has the opposite idea, given he just ...

As long as there have been games, there have been crackers breaking their copy protections. “Digital Rights Management” or ...

An adult human can produce about 100 Wh of mechanical power whilst cycling, which is a not inconsiderable amount if you can ...

Our hacker [glgorman] sent in their submission for the One Hertz Challenge: an analog software clock for Microsoft Windows. I guess we’d have to say that this particular project is a work-in-… ...