Technology Commentary

The BWB Drumline performs before speakers take the stage at an event focused on artificial intelligence at the Museum of History and Industry on Thursday

A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known just how many sites send all your visits and clicks to (at least) Google, but a log that you have to manually create first and then analyze is not very dramatic.

If anything about current interaction design can be called “glamorous,” it’s creating Web applications. After all, when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn’t on the Web? (Okay, besides the iPod.) All the cool, innovative new projects are online.

Why Discord is refocusing on gaming and how the platform, now the primary social hub for a growing group of teens, is trying to keep users safe.

Have you ever wanted to ability to see through objects? Perhaps you have been looking for something special for your own personal TSA role playing adventures? Well, [Jeri Ellsworth] has your back. …

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These days, every phone has a camera, and few of us are ever without one. [Bjørn Karmann] has built an altogether not-camera, though, in the form of the Paragraphica, powered by artificial intellig…

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One of the cringier aspects of AI as we know it today has been the proliferation of deepfake technology to make nude photos of anyone you want. What if you took away the abstraction and put the fak…

OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management (EIM) software.

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During the 1980s and 1990s Novell was one of those names that you could not avoid if you came even somewhat close to computers. Starting with selling computers and printers, they’d switch to …

Wireless charging is pretty convenient, as long as the transmitter and receiver speak the same protocol. Just put the device you want to charge on the wireless charger without worrying about pluggi…

Fifty years ago, PC software pioneer Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system.

A report shows that while the industry is growing, its biggest competition is Fortnite, GTA, Call of Duty, and Roblox

Everyone wonders what's better for them: watching a YouTube tutorial or reading documentation. While some people learn better by reading and others by listening, this article will explain why both options are beneficial and when to choose one over th...

Here at Hackaday we’re a varied bunch of writers, some of whom have careers away from this organ, and others whose work also appears on the pages of other publications in different fields. On…

I used to think I wanted Rosey the Robot to run my smart home, but now I’m having second thoughts.

Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.

A closer look at Figma’s custom PostgreSQL sharding solution with motivations and future predictions.

The iconic IC device, developed by Federico Faggin, will soon be phased out, and interested parties only have a few months left to place their orders before...

Narrow waists: an idea in software architecture that relates to networking, operating systems, language design, compilers, and distributed systems.

Phones remain undefeated.

According to the 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report, bad bot traffic levels rose for the fifth consecutive year, indicating an alarming trend

It's good to know the difference between HDDs and SSDs and understand how the different SSD technologies affect reliability.

There are three competing priorities that companies have as it relates to software development: security, maintainability, and velocity. I’ll elaborate on what I mean by each of these in just a bit…