The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, ...

Leaving aside the ethical issues of releasing AI-created music under your name (although there is quite clearly a debate ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better ...

Germany still leans on fax machines and paperwork for basic public services. How can a nation of tech pioneers be so slow to adopt digital government?

Our testing panel reviewed loads of eye-catching B2B technology this year - and these are the 9 coolest gadgets and devices ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

And we’re just getting started on the annoyance. Now, I’ll lay my cards on the table. I’m not a big generative AI fan. And ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has gone through the roof. In July 2025, OpenAI reported that its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, received over 2.5 billion ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

A sweeping genetic screen reveals how the brain is built and exposes a hidden gene behind a newly discovered childhood brain ...