But did you know that pi has an evil twin represented by the symbol ϖ? As [John Carlos Baez] explains, it and its related ...

If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with ...

An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only ...

Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and ...

Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink ...

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their Trinitron line of televisions, Sony launched the KX-45ED1. At forty three inches the screen on this particular model made it the largest tube ...

You wouldn’t typically associate graphing calculators with artificial intelligence, but hacker [KermMartian] recently made it ...

We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as numbers, you can do an okay job with sixteen segments off the shelf. But if you want ...

There’s a major push now to find energy sources with smaller carbon footprints. The maritime shipping industry, according to IEEE Spectrum, is going towards ammonia. Burning ammonia produces no ...

Nuclear war was very much a front-of-mind issue during the fraught political climate of the Cold War era. Since then, atomic sabre rattling has been less frequent, though has never quite ...

In an era dominated by broadband and wireless cellular networks, it might come as a surprise to many that dial-up internet services still exist in the United States. This persistence is not a mere ...

Not only is AI-driven natural language processing a thing now, but you can even select from a number of different offerings, each optimized for different tasks. It took very little time for [Bloc ...