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

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

It’s well known that the difference in executable size between a compiled binary and one hand-written in optimized assembler ...

Fish are popular animals to keep as pets, and for good reason. They’re relatively low maintenance, relaxing to watch, and have a high aesthetic appeal. But for all their upsides, they aren’t quite as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Folks from [Adafruit] are showing off a neat hack – USB host on RP2040, using the now-famous PIO peripheral. [Adafruit] builds a lot of RP2040 boards, and naturally, you gotta test them before you ...

There aren’t many speed records that remain unbroken for the greater part of a century, but one of them is that of the fastest steam locomotive. As with so many such things, there’s a bit of ...

The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – and ending… ...

There are plenty of ways to get sound into your house: good old fashioned headphones, the Dolby surround setup we all lusted ...

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

With how much time many of us spend in our cars, it makes perfect sense to consider them a second home. Yet even if that’s ...