How to make a robust crystal radio. DIY step by step. No special tools or skills needed. Most parts can be had from recycled things. The purchased parts run about $3. Good during power failures, when batteries are not available, for prepping and similar.…

New research shows that people with depression use absolute words, such as "always," "nothing," or "completely," more often than others.

The New Horizons spacecraft is expected to confirm its successful pass of a far-flung world.

To read an updated on this story please click on this link: Chinese Crankshafts for Corvairs, update 2/17/13.  If  the pictures on this story are small, try clicking on the F5 key at the top of you…

Talon is a programmable voice recognition system that helps me code by voice—something that isn't feasible with macOS' built-in dictation.

Blame the government for the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer in the Golden State.

Several mathematicians under the age of 30 left their marks all over the field, and amateur problem-solvers of all ages made significant contributions to long

JPEG-XR gets software-decoded on the CPU main thread alongside JavaScript and thereby negatively impacts page rendering performance and interactivity, especially in Single-Page-Apps.

A popular chat service, 3615 SM, has been resurrected from the original code

EDIT: As pointed out in the Rust reddit thread, the Rust version can be modified to run faster due to a suble difference between ..=z and ..(z+1). I’ve updated the measurements with rustc0 be…

With 2019 a day away, let’s reflect on the past to see how we can improve. Yes, let’s take a long look back 30 years and reflect on the original fuzzing paper, An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities, and its 1995 follow-up, Fuzz Revisited…