Beyblade spinning tops are pretty easy to find at toy shops, department stores, and even some supermarkets. However, the arenas in which the tops do battle? They’re much harder to come by, ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside.

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, ...

Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system.

Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We ...

Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the ...

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the ...

Imagine you have a projector pointing at a scene, which you’re photographing with a camera aimed from a different point.

Three-axis 3D printing has been with us long enough that everybody knows the limitations, but so far, adding extra axes has ...

The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it ...