Long ago, in the aftermath of the UNIX wars, three kernels emerged from the rubble: BSD, Linux, and Hurd. BSD, being UNIX, ...

It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and you need to start somewhere. With the Cheap Yellow Display ...

A few years back a company had an ad campaign with a discouraged caveman who was angry because the company claimed their website was “so easy, even a caveman could do it.” Maybe that ...

In a move that’s no doubt going to upset and confuse many, Espressif has released its newest microcontroller — the ESP32-S31.

Like many long-established broadcasters, the BBC put out a selection of their archive material for us all to enjoy online.

It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due to how rushed of ...

Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the ...

These days our appetite for more data storage is larger than ever, with video files larger, photo resolutions higher, and ...

Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring or ...

Although everyone’s favorite Linux overlord [Linus Torvalds] has been musing on dropping Intel 486 support for a while now, ...

A crew lives on a station in a hostile environment. Leaving that environment requires oxygen tanks and specialized gear to deal with pressure differentials. A space station? Nah. A base built on ...

Large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually giant computer brains. Instead, they are effectively massive vector spaces in ...