My 4-year-old eldest son has recently taken a liking to playing shop. He will suddenly say, "Welcome!" and try to get me to buy the toys he has lined up. While watching him, I suddenly thought, Wouldn ...

As promised, Microsoft is bringing back the ability to reposition the Windows taskbar… although you can’t actually do it just yet unless your a member of the Windows 11 Insider Preview program running ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

I created a "wireless-programmable macro controller" that can automate Nintendo Switch operations. I created a macro controller that can be programmed wirelessly from a PC to automate and streamline ...

For those of us lucky enough to have been at Hackaday Europe in Berlin, there was a feast of hacks at our disposal. Among them was [Vladimir Divic]’s gradients game, software for an M5Stack module ...

Due to the growing popularity of the ESP32 IoT platform adoption by security professionals, this article raises several security concerns addressing firmware attacks that could target this user ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

The Arduino Opta micro programmable logic controller (PLC) provides a unique entry point into the automation field. Automation fields like smart homes, process controls, and robotics are project areas ...