Collaborate Disseminate
When it was recently announced that the Linux kernel might drop support for the Intel 486 line of chips, we took a look at the state of the 486 world. …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: When It Comes To Processors, How Far Back Can You Go?
With billions of computers talking to each other daily, how do they decide anything? Even in a database or server deployment, how do the different computers that make up the …read more Continue reading Building Your Own Consensus
Have you ever experienced dizziness, vertigo, or nausea while in a virtual reality experience? That’s VR sickness, and it’s a form of motion sickness. It is not a completely solved …read more Continue reading VR Sickness: A New, Old Problem
Computers! They’re in everything these days. Everything from thermostats to fridges and even window blinds are now on the Internet, and that makes them all ripe for hacking. Electric vehicle …read more Continue reading EV Chargers Could Be A Serious Target For Hackers
Humans manage to drive in an acceptable fashion using just two eyes and two ears to sense the world around them. Autonomous vehicles are kitted out with sensor packages altogether …read more Continue reading Spoofing LIDAR Could Blind Autonomous Vehicles to Obstacles
We recently covered the removal of Pantone colour support from the Adobe cloud products, with the two companies now expecting artists and designers to pay an extra subscription for a …read more Continue reading Interview: Stuart Semple on Pantone, Freetone, Colour, And Open Source
With the rise in voice-driven virtual assistants over the years, the sight of people talking to various electrical devices in public and in private has become rather commonplace. While such …read more Continue reading On Getting a Computer’s Attention and Striking Up a Conversation
As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to know if there are other forms of intelligent life out …read more Continue reading The Wow! Signal Revisited: Citizen Science Informs SETI Effort
Thanks to stints as an X-ray technician in my early 20s followed by work in various biology labs into my early 40s, I’ve been classified as an “occupationally exposed worker” …read more Continue reading Dosimetry: Measuring Radiation
A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds, as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture in a Linux kernel mailing list …read more Continue reading Bye Bye Linux On The 486. Will We Miss You?