Dave Plummer’s TinyRetroPad revives classic Notepad simplicity, stripping away AI, telemetry, and unnecessary modern clutter Built in under 3 kilobytes, the new tool highlights growing frustration ...

Editor's take: Dave Plummer started his programmer's career at Microsoft back in the MS-DOS days. He knows a thing or two about code optimization, which is why he is now trying to strip Notepad of the ...

Microsoft's habit of adding unnecessary features to Notepad is a symptom of broader bloating in the Windows codebase. But it is possible to go back to basics with a version of the editor that fits in ...

"I wonder how hot it's going to get this summer?" "Oh, by the way, when is Amazon Prime Day again?" Questions like "What is this?" that pop up in the casual moments of daily life. Did you know that ...

Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, ...

Abstract: High-resolution ADCs operating at medium speed (1-20MS/s) can be effectively realized utilizing the energy-efficient pipelined-SAR architecture [1]–[2]. However, a large sampling capacitance ...