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 ...

Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good power supply design, start ...

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

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

During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor ...