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Chinas national language authority has published a new Chinese Coded Character Set to allow more than 17,000 rare Chinese characters be recognized by computers, according to Central China Television on Sunday. The expansion, a huge leap forward in computing as well as Chinese characters protection, brings the total number of characters in the set to 88,115.

Back in the day, computers, and even many printers, could only display text — no graphics.

Merging a cyberdeck and retro computer into one glorious project, this all-in-one machine is powered by the Raspberry Pi 3A+

An illustrated description of what Textmode Art is and how to get started

Back Channel presents the most captivating news and innovations in RF and microwaves. This week, Howard University becomes the first HBCU to lead a...

Networking is an interesting topic. I wish I knew more about it. A lot of people don’t even think about the networks they are using so long as the piece of electronic equipment they currently want to play with works as planned. The first time I came into contact with a network in the wild…

The pain

I love learning how logic designers of the past solved tricky problems with innovative solutions. The more I delve into this sort of thing, the more I say to myself, “Wow! I would never have thought of that!” A great example is binary coded decimal (BCD) because there’s a lot more to this topic than…

Does a fortress by any other sprite not smell as sweet?

It’s common to hear engineers and computer boffins say that digital computers are based on 0s and 1s, but what does this actually mean? On the one hand, this is relatively simple; I mean, 0 and 1, how hard can it be? On the other hand, there are so many layers to this metaphorical onion…