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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trickle of current that can deal with chronic pain ...

We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s ...

One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ...

The original Xbox was different from the consoles that had gone before, in that its hardware shared much with a PC of the day ...

There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts ...

That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded to happily ...

Andrew Greenberg] has some specific ideas for how open-source hardware hackers could do a better job with their KiCad ...

If you take a look around you, chances are pretty good that within a few seconds, your eyes will fall on some kind of ...

You may have noticed that large pieces of the Internet were down on Tuesday. It was a problem at Cloudflare, and for once, it ...

On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure ...

For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the ...