Update: The USPS has now resumed acceptance of inbound packages from China. According to the updated Service Alert, they are ...

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space ...

Some troubling news hit overnight as the United States Post Office announced via a terse “Service Alert” that they would ...

This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that ...

For better or worse, the fundamental design of guitars has remained familiar since they electrified around a century ago. A ...

Surface mount devices have gotten really small, so small that a poorly timed sneeze can send your 0603 and 0402 parts off to live with the dust motes lurking at the edge of your bench. While ...

If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just an arbitrary gimmick, but it ...

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s ...

A well-known secret in the world of open source software is that many projects rely on donated hosting for everything from their websites to testing infrastructure. When the company providing said ...

The DeepSeek large language models (LLM) have been making headlines lately, and for more than one reason. IEEE Spectrum has ...

A few weeks ago we brought you news of a new palmtop computer for hackers, powered by the new Espressif ESP32-P4 application ...

The Universal Serial Bus. The one bus to rule them all.  It brought peace and stability to the world of computer peripherals.