The flip-flop, in whichever of its several forms you encounter it, is a staple of logic design. Any time that you need to ...

These days, most of the media we consume is digital. We still watch movies and TV shows, but they’re all packaged in digital ...

Although most modern cars have moved to using proprietary components nearly everywhere, especially when it comes to infotainment systems, for a brief moment which peaked in the 90s and 00s most ...

The earliest useful plastics were made out of natural materials like cellulose and casein, but since the Bakelite revolution, ...

Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re vastly underrepresented in research and ...

Hydraulic gear pumps are deceptively simple: just two gears rotating together, forcing the hydraulic oil from one side to the ...

No matter what kind of computer or phone you are reading this on, it probably has a graphics system that would have been a ...

Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to ...

It’s a truism that a computer must boot before it begins to operate. Nowadays that bootstrapping process is automatic, but in the case of the very first home computers, it was very much a ...

When the Channel Tunnel opened in 1994, the undersea rail link saw Britain grew closer to the European mainland than ever ...

One of the lost pleasures of our modern world is the experience of going shopping at a grocery store, a mall, or a drugstore, ...