We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance ...

If you have ever thought, “I wish I could have a mass spectrometer at home,” then we aren’t very surprised you are reading ...

Most keyboards are factory-set for a specific layout, and most users never change from the standard layout for their home ...

It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of ...

If you live in a major city, you’ve probably seen a street performer with some variety of slapophone. It’s a simple musical instrument that typically uses different lengths of PVC pipe ...

One part wants 3.3V logic. Another wants 5V. What do you do? Over on the [Playduino] YouTube channel, there’s a recent video running us through a not-so-recent concern: various approaches to ...

The best part about BEV and hybrid cars is probably the bit where their electronics are taken out for a good teardown and ...

When driving around in video games, whether racing games like Mario Kart or open-world games like GTA, the game often displays a mini map in the corner of the screen that shows where the vehicle ...

Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl ...

Most humans like games. But what are games, exactly? Not in a philosophical sense, but in the sense of “what exactly are their worky bits, so we know how to make them?” [Raph Koster] ...

There are a few very different pathways to building a product, and we gotta applaud the developers taking care to take the open-source path. Today’s highlight is [Mentra], who is releasing ...

Fix stuff, earn big awards? Maybe, if this idea for repair bounties takes off. The group is dubbed the FULU Foundation, for “Freedom from Unethical Limitations on Users,” and was ...