Early in the morning on November 20, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath

Announcing the next generation of our Power over Ethernet (PoE) HAT. You can get the Raspberry Pi PoE + HAT for the original price of $20.

Cryptocurrency miners, including HashCow and BTC.TOP, have halted all or part of their China operations after Beijing intensified a crackdown on bitcoin mining and trading, hammering digital currencies amid heightened global regulatory scrutiny.

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In court in Norway, Tesla was found guilty of throttling charging speed and battery capacity through a software update. Unless it appeals, Tesla is going to have to pay $16,000 to each of the thousands of owners affected in the country. The fine could be…

The network turned out to be as good at the job as human archaeologists.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. intelligence…

Nope,
you don't know how to validate an email address. Even
if you think you'd get the domain part right,
fuggeddabout the local part. Seriously.

Replacing digital with analog circuits and photonics can improve performance and power, but it's not that simple.

A pair of researchers at the University of Kent has found that tardigrades are able to survive impacts at speeds of up to 825 meters per second. In their paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Alejandra ...

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He’s the record-breaking skateboarder who took the sport mainstream. Here he reflects on how the sport has changed, and how he feels knowing he may never do a 720 again

Obsessed with the body and its torments, the artist said that he wanted to strike the viewer’s “nervous system.”

Under the hood, lithium-ion batteries have gotten better in the last decade.

Matthew Collin uses account data leaked from an Isle of Man bank to investigate the characteristics of individuals and firms that store their money in tax havens.