If there’s an enduring image of how large steel structures used to be made, it’s probably the hot riveting process. You’ve probably seen grainy old black-and-white films of a ...

A little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the world’s first playable “AI video game” that ...

It is a fact of life that 3D-printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers ...

Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a large number, it is ...

How can you tell if your software is doing what it’s supposed to? Write some tests and run them every time you change ...

It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got to witness in unprecedented detail ...

Usually, designing a CPU is a lengthy process, especially so if you’re making a new ISA too. This is something that can take months or even years before you first get code to run. But what ...

The chances are if you know someone who is a former Apple employee, you’ll have heard their Steve Jobs anecdote, and that it was rather unflattering to the Apple co-founder. I’ve ...

We just got home from Supercon and well, it was super. It was great to see everyone, and meet a whole bunch of new folks to boot! The talks were great, and you can see a good half of them already ...

Humans first visited the Moon in 1969.  The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the ...

It was Supercon this weekend, and Hackaday staffers made their way to Pasadena for what was by all accounts an excellent ...

Steve Ballmer famously called Linux “viral”, with some not-entirely coherent complaints about the OS. In a hilarious instance ...