Before you even ask, it’s an open source trackball and you’re gonna like it. Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get down to brass tacks on this week’s hacks. From la…

Planned e-cigarette policies continue to change

The vulnerabilities affect at least ten popular Android devices, including Google's Pixel 2 and Samsung's Galaxy S8+.

Apple may have known for months

Named after British inventor James Dyson of cyclonic vacuum cleaner fame, the Dyson Awards are presented annually to current and recent students of engineering, industrial design, and product desig…

If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.

There’s a long road ahead for Lordstown Motors

You can get them at Amazon, Best Buy, Target or Walmart

For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.

Most users opted not to share data with police, who still got it all anyway.

‘If you try to make everybody happy w/ a v1, you’ll either never ship or make nobody happy’

In his poems about strange bodies buried in the bogs of Northern Europe, the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney describes peatlands…

‘Climate strike’ is officially the word of the year

Socioeconomic status and racial diversity affect how different communities adapt to a changing climate

[Ultimate Robotics] has been working on designing and producing an extremely small ECG that can stream data real time. Typical electrocardiogram equipment is bulky: miniaturization doesn’t do…

Why do remote startups host retreats? Here's a detailed breakdown of why founders plan a retreat, with an agenda template included inside.

Parallel Commits are an atomic commit protocol in CockroachDB. The feature promises to halve the latency of distributed transactions by performing all consensus round trips required to commit a transaction concurrently.