When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.

Ever wondered how pros test auto wiring without stripping wires? This Harbor Freight kit helps you do it, like they do, without zapping yourself.

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has ...

A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...

MIT engineers built a magnetic transistor from chromium sulfur bromide, promising smaller, faster electronics with built-in ...

As the Income Tax Return (ITR) season is underway, it is crucial for taxpayers to verify whether they have successfully paid their income tax. They can do so by checking if the Income Tax department ...

A day might come when you may need to find out which one of your Windows 11/10 applications is using the internet in the background. Instead of checking each app individually, there is an easier way ...

As you may already know, by default, Windows 11/10 contains Command Prompt and PowerShell. We can use either of them to check the battery level. To do the same, you need to launch Command Prompt and ...

Our microelectronics relies on doped semiconductors. But there is an alternative: Instead of the semiconductor parts ...

On Windows 10, checking your computer's hardware and system specifications can be useful for many tasks. Whether you're verifying compatibility for an app, preparing to upgrade to a new Windows ...

MIT researchers with colleagues from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague have used 2D CrSBr, a van der Waals ...

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