Travelling the continent’s hackerspaces over the years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in university towns. They share a depressingly common theme, of a community hackerspace full of former ...

Introducing the ‘hackerspace’ -- a do-it-yourself space where everyday people can create extraordinary things. The concept is simple: Come to a hackerspace with an idea, and leave with something you ...

In a few weeks time, I will be in Düsseldorf on business for the world’s largest plastics and rubber industry trade show, the K-Show. That’s not very interesting for you, but afterwards a coworker and ...

The word "hackerspace" calls to mind a haven where Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller and their ilk feverishly crack encrypted websites. Las Vegas' hackerspace, SYN Shop, however, looks less like a ...

This week on the podcast we're talking about phantom vibrations in your pocket, free Wi-Fi for everyone (with cable internet), and life at your local hackerspace. Also, we're solving Apple TV ...

When you imagine a hacker, you’re probably thinking of someone banging away at a keyboard, doing something shadowing and illegal on the internet. These days a lot of hackers are banding together, and ...

Noisebridge, the renowned hackerspace that’s been in the Mission for nine years, will “almost certainly” have to leave its Mission Street space by August 2018, when its lease expires. “Despite our ...

After decades of tyranny, sanctions and war, Iraq has a better reputation for destroying things than building them. That's why an Iraqi-American who's trying to create the country's first hackerspace ...

A web coding workshop isn’t the first thing you might associate with free babysitting, and Mothership HackerMoms wants to know, Why not? As hackerspaces blossom around the world, this new addition in ...

Our perception of hackers is that they greatly prefer up-to-the-nanosecond technology over the sort of gadgetry used by previous generations. But that doesn’t mean they reject any methodology more ...