Retro computing enthusiast creates perforated tape reader designed ‘from scratch’ — reads data at about 50 bytes per second
An electronics enthusiast has demonstrated a compact new perforated tape reader design.
DragonFire laser shoots down high‑speed drones traveling at 400mph, costs $13 per shot — UK Navy to begin deploying system on destroyers
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced that the high‑power laser system DragonFire successfully shot down drones travelling at speeds up to 650 km/h during recent trials in Scotland.
Best Black Friday tech deals live 2025 — best tech and PC hardware deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more
The best Black Friday PC hardware sales, live round-the-clock coverage of all the best deals.
Huge 28TB Seagate external HDD just hit an all-time low price — data hoarder’s dream Black Friday storage upgrade for less than $11 per TB
Seagate’s enormous 28TB Expansion HDD backup solution for your desktop is on sale for just $289.99, thanks to Black Friday.
ASML allegedly offered to spy on China for the US — company proposed being ‘Washington’s eyes and ears in China’ after breaking gentlemen’s agreement on limiting DUV sales to country, says new book
ASML allegedly offered to spy on its customers for the U.S. after it was caught breaking a gentleman’s agreement that limited the number of DUV lithography machines it could sell to China.
Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month
A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system’s speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on GitHub.
The industry skipped from IPv4 to IPv6, leaving IPv5 and the Internet Stream Protocol to the annals of history — a data streaming experiment rendered unnecessary by broadband
The Internet’s early twisted shoots of growth sometimes led to a dead end, like IPv5.
The Winnebiko travelled 17,000 miles to complete the Computing Across America expedition 40 years ago — solar and 1980s portable gadgets powered digital nomadism in its earliest and purest form
In 1983, writer and computer whizz Steven K. Roberts began his multi-year Computing Across America quest, pioneering the digital nomad lifestyle.
Supersized chip family gathers for the 54th anniversary of the Intel 4004 CPU — 4001 ROM, 4002 RAM, and 4003 shift registers feature in a reconstructed Busicom calculator build
A sneak preview of a complete MCS-4 computer, built from discrete transistors, has been shown off to mark the recent Intel 4004 anniversary.
Intel Panther Lake-H Benchmarks And Engineering Sample Sneak Peek
Benchmarks of an Intel Panther Lake-H engineering sample have leaked on X/Twitter, and the results have spurred some interesting debate. Before proceeding, though, it’s important to clarify the nature of engineering sample hardware and how it usually does not reflect the performance of final hardware. This is especially apparent with the ES