The days of the expansion pack have long since left us, replaced by it’s bite sized cousin downloadable content. For many this is a better way of doing it as…
It seems that the semiconductor industry can’t go a year without someone raising the tired old flag that is the impending doom of Moore’s Law. Nearly every year there’s a…
MESSENGER was a great example of how NASA’s reputation for solid engineering can extend the life of their spacecraft far beyond anyone’s expectations. Originally slated for a one year mission…
After the hubbub that Solar Freakin Roadways caused last year (ranging in tone from hopeful to critical) all seemed to have gone quiet on the potentially revolutionary road surface front….
You might not guess it from the usual content that I put up on this blog but I’m something of a gearhead, owing to my rural roots where I was…
I am always amazed when something that I think I understand completely turns out to be far more complicated than I first thought. The anodizing process was one of these…
Science reporting and science have something of a strained relationship. Whilst most scientists are modest and humble about the results that they produce the journalists who report on it often…
I’ve spent the better part of the last 4 years banging on about how the hybrid cloud should be the goal that all cloud services work towards. Whilst the argument…
The problem that most renewables face is that they don’t generate power constantly, requiring some kind of energy storage medium to provide power when its not generating. Batteries are the…
The Souls series never really appealed to me as it seems its target audience was a certain subsection of gamers who craved games that gave their player nothing and took…