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Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster

Digital Convergence Corporation is hardly a household name, and there’s a good reason for that. However, it raised about $185 million in investments around the year 2000 from companies such …read more

The Most Secure, Modern Computer Might Be A Mac

The Linux world is currently seeing an explosion in new users, thanks in large part to Microsoft turning its Windows operating system into the most intrusive piece of spyware in …read more

Age-Verification And The World Before Social Media

Although it may be hard to believe for current generations, there was a time when the Internet and the World Wide Web were not as integrated into society as it …read more

From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega

If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive purple peripheral, with its satisfying clunk as you slotted in …read more

The Unreasonable Power Density Of Lithium-Ion

We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries are, and everything that’s afforded us. I’m trying to think …read more

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  • Testing Severely Neglected VHS Tapes And CDs

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    By Maya Posch | March 25, 2026

    Physical media has a certain amount of durability associated with it, a quality which is naturally determined by the way that they’re stored. Generally this does not involve being abandoned …read more

  • Demonstrating Gray Codes With Industrial Display

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    By Bryan Cockfield | March 25, 2026

    Many people base huge swaths of their lives on foundational philosophical texts, yet few have read them in their entirety. The one that springs to the forefront of many of …read more

  • VGA Output From A PIC18

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    By Lewin Day | March 25, 2026

    In the maker world, it’s the Arduino and ESP32 lines that get the lion’s share of attention. However, you can do fantastic things with PIC chips, too, if you put …read more

  • The Most Intricate Of Freeform Digital Clocks

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    By Jenny List | March 25, 2026

    Digital clock projects have been with us since the 1970s, when affordable LEDs and integrated circuits became available. In 2026 most of them use a microcontroller, but for the AliExpress …read more

  • FLOSS Weekly Episode 867: Pangolin: People Can Lie

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    By Jonathan Bennett | March 25, 2026

    This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT …read more

  • Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster

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    By Al Williams | March 25, 2026

    Digital Convergence Corporation is hardly a household name, and there’s a good reason for that. However, it raised about $185 million in investments around the year 2000 from companies such …read more

  • Stadia Controller Reborn As Bluetooth Gamepad Adapter

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    By Ian Bos | March 25, 2026

    Tech has a problem, an e-waste problem. Google is a common offender when it comes to this, creating a product just to end support a couple of years later. Thankfully, …read more

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