Collaborate Disseminate
Over the course of more than a decade, physical media has gradually vanished from public view. Once computers had an optical drive except for ultrabooks, but these days computer cases …read more Continue reading Why Physical Media Deserved To Die
Recently a team at Fudan University claimed to have developed a picosecond-level Flash memory device (called ‘PoX’) that has an access time of a mere 400 picoseconds. This is significantly …read more Continue reading PoX: Super-Fast Graphene-Based Flash Memory
Long before the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) was said to take the world by storm, the p-System (pseudo-system, or virtual machine) developed at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) …read more Continue reading Remembering UCSD p-System, the Pascal Virtual Machine
Water is an excellent coolant, but the flip side is that it is also an excellent solvent. This, in short, is why any water cooling loop is also a prime …read more Continue reading Preventing Galvanic Corrosion in Water Cooling Loops
Although uranium-235 is the typical fuel for commercial fission reactors on account of it being fissile, it’s relatively rare relative to the fertile U-238 and thorium (Th-232). Using either of …read more Continue reading China’s TMSR-LF1 Molten Salt Thorium Reactor Begins Live Refueling Operations
Back in the olden days, there existed physical game stores, which in addition to physical games would also have kiosks where you could try out the current game consoles and …read more Continue reading Restoring an Abandoned Game Boy Kiosk
Although we tend to see mostly the glorious and fun parts of hanging out in a space station, the human body will not cease to do its usual things, whether …read more Continue reading Haircuts in Space: How to Keep Your Astronauts Looking Fresh
Running a dairy farm used to be a rather hands-on experience, with the farmer required to be around every few hours to milk the cows, feed them, do all the …read more Continue reading Rise of the Robots: How Robots Are Changing Dairy Farms
These days even a lowly microcontroller can easily trade blows with – or surpass – desktop systems of yesteryear, so it is little wonder that DIY handheld gaming systems based …read more Continue reading GK STM32 MCU-Based Handheld Game System
Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this …read more Continue reading Porting COBOL Code and the Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages