"Both designs are solid testaments to the excellence of the BBC’s engineering department" – we compare two legendary speaker designs
The most famous BBC-designed speaker is undoubtedly the little LS3/5A. Arguably the first proper high-quality mini-monitor, this little box design from 1975 has long achieved legend status among a section of the hi-fi…
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I spoke to Jake Dyson about the brand's sky-high prices, and he's over it, frankly: 'If you want the best engineering, you have to pay'
Talk to anyone about Dyson, and you can be certain that pricing will come up before long. It's not unjustified: this is the brand that gave us a $399 (£299 / AU$549) hair dryer, back in 2016 when that kind of price tag…
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Mark Rober’s new CrunchLabs mysteries turn reading into a hands-on STEM adventure
Mark Rober has spent years proving that science and engineering don’t have to feel like homework. His enormously popular videos turn subjects such as physics, robotics, and mechanical engineering into spectacular…
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'When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before' — Quote of the day by NASA's former software director Margaret Hamilton on the birth of software engineering
The computing industry was once unrecognizable from the one we see today, with the idea of discipline centered around writing code treated as some kind of fantasy.
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Levi's reveals security tear may have let hackers steal important corporate data
Attackers used social engineering to access Levi’s network and steal corporate dataDetails on stolen information, methods, and perpetrators remain largely undisclosedVoice‑phishing extortion groups are suspected, though…
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