Although it dates back to the early days of the Marconi Company in the 1920s, the Franklin oscillator has remained a ...

It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about their being ...

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s ...

Hacks are of all ages, with the Victorian-era Claymills Pumping Station being no exception. When its old Lancashire boilers ...

Instant photography is a miracle of the analog age, chemical photographs that develop in your hands moments after the shutter ...

Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much ...

During the 1990s the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant – formerly the Chernobyl NPP – continued operating with its remaining three RBMK reactors, but of course the 1970s-era automation ...

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...

Modern-day receivers are miracles of digital audio and video processing, but compared to their more analog brethren, they can ...

Continuing the restoration of the #1 Lancashire boiler at the Claymills Pumping Station in the UK, the volunteers are putting ...

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody ...