We’re all too spoiled nowadays with our comfortable ways to erase and write data to persistent memory, whether it’s our microcontroller’s internal flash or some external EEPROM. A…

Yesterday I was in Anaheim giving a talk called “Industry Lifecycles.” (click here for slides and video). It was intended to be a brief summary of the blog post of the same title, with …

The disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre
vulnerabilities has brought a
new level of attention to the security bugs that can lurk at the hardware
level. Massive amounts of work have gone into improving the (still poor)
security of our software, but all…

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Scientists move nearer to one of the biggest goals in medicine - a universal blood test for cancer.

Scientists move nearer to one of the biggest goals in medicine - a universal blood test for cancer.

Industrial designer [Eric Strebel] has access to big, walk-in spray booths, but bigger isn’t always better. For small jobs, it’s overkill, and he wanted his own spray booth anyway. If y…

Last year at Cloudflare, we were affected by a bug in one of Intel’s processor models. Here’s the story of how we found we had a mysterious problem, and how we tracked down the cause.

You wouldn’t think online shopping could get you in trouble with customs, but if you accidentally order counterfeit merchandise on Amazon it just might. If you plan on doing a lot of traveling, you probably want to double check your orders from now on.

One of the joys of administering Free-Programming-Books , the second most popular repo on GitHub, has been accepting pull requests (edits) ...

In this talk I describe the basic makeup of FPGAs and how I reverse engineered the Xilinx 7 Series and Lattice iCE40 Series together with...

How do fundamental, structural changes in TV, in retail and in advertising interlock and accelerate each other, and what cascading effects might there be?

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There are fewer than 1,000 wet plate collodion artists practicing around the world, and as far as I know, I am the only one in the state of North Dakota. 5 years ago, I didn’t own a camera and knew nothing about photography. I saw a wet plate online and I…

Apple continues to get into hot water over a power management feature that throttles performance on older iPhones to avoid unexpected battery shutdowns.

Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.

ABOUT US Smarking is an MIT spin-off based in San Francisco that brings big data to the parking industry. Parking represents enormous and growing market opportunities ($100 billion worldwide) with fascinating technical challenges. Starting as a SaaS company…

The long read: Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there is an alternative

Who would have thought that you could light up pyrotechnics on USB power? This USB keystroke injector that blows up after it’s used proves the concept. Fully aware that this is one of those &…