Seven years ago, Apple made a staggering discovery: Among the employees at a factory in China that made most of the computer ports used in its MacBooks were two 15-year-olds. Apple told the manufacturer, Suyin Electronics, that it wouldn’t get any new business…

Here is a guest post from long time reader Duncan Dimanche on how to turn any camera into a webcam for $13, no app needed So all you need is an HDMI video card costing only 13$ or even less. And you will also need to buy an HDMI cable from your camera to…

In 1969, high-density MOS integrated circuits were still new and logic circuits were constructed in a variety of ways. One technique was ...

Former FBI undercover operative Joseph A Burton says that despite Justice Dept assurances that FBI's Counterintelligence Program was halted in Apr ′71 FBI continued as late as last June to employ program‐style techniques against domestic pol groups, series…

Mostly non-fiction books this year. Some in English, some in German.

An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM 29 December, 2020 Dear CACM Editor, We are a group of researchers, industry experts, academics, and educators, writing with sadness and alarm about the increasing use of repressive actions aimed at limiting…

My journey to creating a DIY photobioreactor. Some successes and some challenges.

🃏 A distributed unique ID generator inspired by Twitter's Snowflake. - bahlo/sonyflake-rs

This tutorial opens the series of articles about "Project JiJi" and describes how to add autofocus to the 16 mm Telephoto Lens mounted on the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera. The repository includes the board design, configuration files, firmware, and software to…

As parts of the Twitter application grow, we can scale demands on capacity by adding more instances or replicas to a respective service cluster (i.e., horizontal scaling)

Nervous about writing this because it’s such a loaded conversation - but part of me is dreading going back to work next week because I can’t work the hours I did in 2020 again, & yet I’m struggling to see how I can avoid doing so. 1/

Astronomers have found ghostly circles of radio emission, hanging in space like cosmic smoke rings. What are they? No one knows. The race is on to find out.

The regulations relax the distinctions between commercial and recreational drone use.

MF DOOM, the British-born rapper known for his masked "super villain" stage persona, expert rhyming abilities, and fondness for obscure pop culture samples, has died at the age of 49.

The United Kingdom's Brexit transition period expired at 11pm last night, ending a 48-year history with the European project.