Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection ...

Whenever there’s a superlative involved, you know that degree of optimization has to leave something else on the table. In ...

This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It’s a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you ...

We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one far outweighs its value. But ...

The folks at Low Tech Magazine are here again, this time with a solar powered coffee maker. Lest you think of a large ...

We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in the UK, or 000 in Australia.

The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure, you can ...

A gastroscopy is a procedure that, in simple terms, involves sticking a long, flexible tube down a patient’s throat to ...

There’s been a bit of a virtualization revolution going on for the last decade or so, where tools like Docker and LXC have ...

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,” so goes the saying, but VHS beat Betamax and the world ...

Perhaps the biggest hurdle to starting a home blacksmithing operating is the forge. There’s really no way around having a forge; somehow the metal has to get hot enough to work. Although we ...

The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance HF antenna into ...