Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Al Williams were in a retro mood this week. There was a new ‘486 computer, a new mechanical TV, and a USB stick with a magnetic personality. Can you ...

Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction ...

Unsurprisingly to many of us, app stores for smart televisions are also trash. Perhaps even more full of trash than other app stores due to the smaller ecosystem and fewer reviewers. Spur analyzed ...

Like so many large and popular open source projects these days, the Godot game engine struggles with an influx of pull requests. The situation has become increasingly dire due to the advent of ...

People have been attempting to turn Kindles into more than e-readers since the first devices came out nearly two decades ago. The e-ink displays are low-power and great for displaying information ...

The recently released Valve Steam Machine is somewhat awkward in that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard ...

It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he ...

Swift is a relatively modern program language, appearing in 2014 as a replacement for Objective-C. Since then, it’s become a ...

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super ...

If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or ...

Some of us have felt somewhat nervous about the collapse of DRAM and NAND Flash memory supply in the consumer market, while ...

Tony Goacher] has worked with a lot of cheap brushless DC motor controllers built in China. They can be very cost-effective, ...