Collaborate Disseminate
Advanced technology played a crucial role in determining the winner of the men’s 100-meter final at the Paris 2024 Olympics. In a historically close race, American sprinter Noah Lyles narrowly …read more Continue reading Olympic Sprint Decided By 40,000 FPS Photo Finish
Australian grids have long run a two-tiered pricing scheme for electricity. In many jurisdictions, regular electricity was charged at a certain rate. Meanwhile, you could get cheaper electricity for certain …read more Continue reading Austraila’s Controlled Loads Are In Hot Water
Few types of accidents speak as much to the imagination as those involving nuclear fission. From the unimaginable horrors of the nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to the fever-pitch …read more Continue reading Reviewing Nuclear Accidents: Separating Fact From Fiction
The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams of eleven, plus a few subs, who were all wrangled by a referee and a …read more Continue reading Smart Ball Technology Has Reached Football, But The Euros Show Us It’s Not Necessarily For The Better
The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage …read more Continue reading The Flash Memory Lifespan Question: Why QLC May Be NAND Flash’s Swan Song
Lynn Conway, American engineer and computer scientist, passed away at the age of 86 from a heart condition on June 9th, at her Michigan home. Her work in the 1970s …read more Continue reading RIP Lynn Conway, Whose Work Gave Us VLSI And Much More
A few years back I wrote an “Ask Hackaday” article inviting speculation on the future of the physical plant of landline telephone companies. It started innocently enough; an open telco …read more Continue reading Scrapping the Local Loop, by the Numbers
In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible to socialize with a whole bunch of friends at …read more Continue reading How Facebook Killed Online Chat
As our climate changes, we fear that warmer temperatures and drier conditions could make life hard for us. In most locations, it’s a future concern that feels uncomfortably near, but …read more Continue reading The Great Green Wall: Africa’s Ambitious Attempt To Fight Desertification
A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local …read more Continue reading NASA Is Now Tasked With Developing A Lunar Time Standard, Relativity Or Not