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Soviet engineers faced a constant uphill battle keeping pace with the rapid development of consumer electronics, working without access to foreign components or technical blueprints. Nowhere was that more apparent than in their approach to compact .. ...

Long before phone cameras became the answer to almost every photography need, Sony released something in 2003 that took a very different approach to the whole idea of a camera. The DKC-C200X was built for one job and one job only, capturing passport ...

Apple has quietly pulled the Mac Pro from its online store, bringing an end to a machine that spent nearly two decades as the definitive choice for creative professionals who needed every last bit of computing muscle available. Built on the Power Mac ...

BlackBerry entered the tablet market in the spring of 2011 with the PlayBook, a 7-inch tablet that had to compete with larger offerings from Apple and others. People who picked one up quickly noticed how portable it was, fitting easily into a bag or ...

Australian researchers have pulled off something that quantum theory predicted but nobody had managed to actually observe in matter until now. Working with pairs of helium atoms, they captured the particles existing in two different locations ...

Home theater enthusiasts looking for a large display frequently consider a high price tag as a huge hurdle, since the entire idea feels out of reach, but the 75U65QF from Hisense, priced at $550 (was $900), is an exception to this norm. This mini-LED ...

When Apple dropped the M5 Max into the latest MacBook Pro, the obvious question was how far the chip could be pushed beyond the usual creative and productivity workloads. Andrew Tsai decided to find out, loading up 20 Windows games and running them . ...

Handy Geng is a rural Hebei province, China-based maker with a talent for taking ordinary equipment and pushing it somewhere nobody expected. After suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of his younger brother during a full commitment LARP ...

Wesley Treat had his face scanned as part of a collaborative 3D model library project with other makers, and when he saw his own scan sitting in the archive he decided it deserved a more permanent form. The result is a strangely fascinating aluminum ...

Photo credit: Sarang Sheth | Yanko Design A recently uncovered Sony patent shows how users could connect a smartphone directly to the DualSense controller. The entire concept revolves around connecting two pieces of hardware that most people already ...