The Video Game History Foundation has added over 5000 total magazines to our digital archive, a major milestone in our project to build a first-in-class video game history research library. When we launched our digital archive last year, we announced … Read more
It’s finally time for me to wrap up this ZX Spectrum series, with a look at how to get the simple 1-bit beeper on every Spectrum model to emit high-quality digital audio. The results are quite good: it’s the last … Read more
3 min read Margo Anderson is senior associate editor and telecommunications editor at IEEE Spectrum. Peter Bloom founded a nonprofit that provides remote communities with shortwave radios that have much better digital data rates than other options. Stuart Bradford Shortwave … Read more
4 min read The Liu family includes Bede Liu’s wife, Maria; his daughter, Beatrice; his sister, Jane Jernow; his brother, Hal Liu; and grandchildren Charles and Emily Lovett. IEEE Life Fellow Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on … Read more
People are quietly withdrawing from active participation in social media. While they may not be deleting accounts en masse, many are: posting less; limiting who sees their content; deleting stress-inducing apps; feeling that maintaining an online presence is work; considering … Read more
The reported case of the U.S. House of Representatives receiving unredacted emails from Dutch civil servants is more than a privacy scandal. It shows, in one sharp moment, why digital sovereignty has moved from slogan to operating principle. For any … Read more
Annals of Technology When Your Digital Life Vanishes “I came up with this theorem,” Steve Burgess, a data-recovery pioneer says. “The value of a person’s data is negatively correlated with whether or not they have it. Once they have it, … Read more
I have deliberately tried not to write too much about AI, because the signal gets swamped by the noise. But I think the picture is becoming clearer now. This week on The Next Wave, I’m going to re-publish versions of … Read more
× What’s Happening Here? This is a data-driven digital twin of my Kaleido M1 sample roaster. It forecasts roaster and bean physics. You can interact with my virtual roaster in the same way you’d use the real one. This demo … Read more
From https://awsm.nz/digital-id-the-new-chains-of-capitalist-surveillance/ The world is entering an era where identity is no longer a matter of personal relationships, lived experience, or even paperwork. Increasingly, it is reduced to biometric scans, algorithmic verification, and digital tokens. Across the globe, governments and … Read more