David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Over the years we have seen a lot of fake electronics, ranging from fake power saving devices that you plug into an outlet, to fake car ECU optimizers that you stick into the OBD port. These are all ...

What can you do with a cheap Linux machine with limited flash and only a single free GPIO line? Probably not much, but sometimes, just getting root to prove you can is the main goal of a project. If ...

So, you're happily streaming a TV show on your phone, but when you move to a different room, your Wi-Fi suddenly cuts out. This has been an age-old problem, especially in homes with a single router.

Wireless connectivity is so ubiquitous today that I sometimes forget it wasn't always like that. Then I remember that I've lived in houses where I needed a Wi-Fi extender to get a consistent signal in ...

You can have a blazing-fast fibre line and still struggle with buffering, laggy Zoom calls, or “no signal” in the back bedroom. That’s because fibre is only the internet pipe coming into your home – ...