Collaborate Disseminate
People have gotten much savvier about computer security in the last decade or so. Most people know that sending a document with sensitive information in it is a no-no, so …read more Continue reading Pixelating Text Not a Good Idea
The University of Pennsylvania has a team that did a little light research. Well, not light in the usual sense of that phrase. They used very strong light to levitate …read more Continue reading Levitating with Light
Depending on what you build, you may or may not run into a lot of inductors. If you need small value coils, it is easy to make good-looking coils, and …read more Continue reading Winding Your Own Small Coils
We have to confess that we occasionally send friends a link to “let me Google that for you” when they ask us something that they could have easily found online. …read more Continue reading How Big is the Moon? Figure it out Yourself
While Star Trek’s transporter is hard to imagine — perfect matter movement across vast distances with no equipment on one end — it may not be the most far-fetched piece …read more Continue reading AI Maybe Revives Dead Languages
You’ve probably heard of the infamous rule 34, but we’d like to propose a new rule — call it rule 35: Anything that can be used for nefarious purposes will …read more Continue reading No Privacy: Cloning the AirTag
The University of Utrecht has a team that is successfully bioprinting “liver units” that are able to do some of the functions of a human liver and may open the …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Livers
Historically, the first program you write for a new computer language is “Hello World,” or, if you are in Texas, “Howdy World.” But with quantum computing on the horizon, you …read more Continue reading Hello (Many Quantum) World(s)
[DiodeGoneWild]’s latest video lives up to the name. He takes apart a laser headlight to recover a pretty powerful blue laser. You can see the video, below. The headlights work …read more Continue reading High-Power Laser Salvaged from Headlights
Unix and, by extension, Linux, has a mantra to make everything possible look like a file. Files, of course, look like files. But also devices, network sockets, and even system …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Fusing Hackaday