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As well as dubious wireless adapters Dell also shipped a USB GigE adapter for some XPS15 models that doesn't work for more than a few hours before the adapter crashes and needs to …

Not enough is being said about this, there are still no really energy efficient receivers and on a per-station basis DAB is also a lot more expensive to transmit. DAB only becomes …

Pressure sensitivity on a musical keyboard is known as "aftertouch" and is generally implemented in a "monophonic" way, the effect of pressure on any key is applied to all the curr…

Quite pretty but I can't figure out why anyone would invent their own non-ISO date format and then have to write a parser for it. Is it really so hard to start with the year?

Those steps might make you feel better but buy you very little in terms of privacy. Your telecoms provider will still know roughly where you are at all times, they have to, it's ho…

That's technology for you, forcing people out of their jobs!

It's definitely above the part 15 limits of 150 μV/m at 3m I don't know the current drive capabilities of the Broadcom SoC, but let's assume it can perfectly drive a dipole antenna…

The MH370 777 was fitted with ADS-B, which is how the various internet based tracking services managed to track it. Unfortunately, it was so far away from the nearest receiver site…

It's worth pointing out that you can't renew existing pro accounts manually, only accounts that are set up with recurring transactions will renew automatically. For some reason thi…

These PCs and laptops are the very same machines that "apps" users are deciding they just don't need any more. Full desktop applications for Windows aren't going to go away, but as…

The schematic may be incorrect, as it seems unlikely that the relay would energise in an emitter follower configuration, where it'd have approximately 2.6 volts across its coil in …

You might be interested in this response to a FOI request on the subject of pirate radio enforcement action. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/141864/response/351401...

I bought my Windows 8 machine with the assumption that, as a touch device, it would give me a true "Windows 8 Experience". I can summarise this experience with the word "atrocious"…

0.37amps X 5volts X 64

This isn't about third party cookies, it's about cookies period - with the exceptions listed in the article. If you use your own analytics package, the chances are it will use cook…

Usually two wires, often AC mains voltage Live and Load but some newer systems use low voltage. My own house has a thermostat that wirelessly communicates with a receiver near the …

Ebay used to have some rich pre-registration features like "watching", but they seem to have been removed in the last year or so. They still track logged-out profiles and tease a l…

ARM Holdings was the first company that popped into my head when I read the headline. Without ARM there would be no Facebook/Twitter because inexpensive mobile computing probably w…

As I see it, Clarkson and the team are basing their eco ridicule on the long view. They know that if they praise the current half-baked electric car technology, they'll look quaint…

Your Macbook sounds as though it came from the same batch as my wife's Macbook. The Apple store replaced her battery free of charge well out of warranty and also offered a replacem…

I was also rather confused as to what I was supposed to be looking at and why it wasn't using setInterval. Your script is nicer, the modulo and increment in the same line is very t…

You misunderstand the meaning of test, the UPS tests itself periodically as part of its normal operation. In this case, if it fails the test it takes your servers with it. I imagin…

I have never had a good experience with APC UPSs, my favourite anti-feature is the self-test that ends with power to the load being interrupted. The "shuts off instantly when cable…