Modern hospitals use a lot of computers. Architecturally speaking, they’re pretty typical machines—running the same CPUs and ...

Over the years there have been a few CPUs designed to directly run a high-level programming language, the most common ...

Once upon a time, transmutation of the elements was a really big deal. Alchemists drove their patrons near to bankruptcy chasing the philosopher’s stone to no avail, but at least we got ...

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, ...

The PC has had its fair share of bus slots. What started with the ISA bus has culminated, so far, in PCI Express slots, M.2 ...

It sometimes seems as though we are in a constant tussle over privacy between governments and the governed, with each year ...

People enjoy retrocomputing for a wide variety of reasons – sometimes it’s about having a computer you could fully learn, or nostalgia for chips that played a part in your childhood. There’s ...

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in ...

Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers ...

NVMe solid state disk drives have become inexpensive unless you want the very largest sizes. But how do you get the most out ...

These days, Internet connectivity is ubiquitous, so you can look up live weather data on just about any device around you.

Once upon a time, surgery was done on patents who were fully conscious and awake. As you might imagine, this was a nasty experience for all involved, and particularly the patients. Eventually, ...