In this article, I'll share some ideas for how schools, libraries, and makerspaces can similarly expand access to open source hardware.

Can AMD's rumored Zen APU be the savior the company has direly needed for the past few years? Leaked slides from Fudzilla detail the upcoming release.

Ubuntu should work on Raspberry Pi 2 because of its ARMv7 CPU.

Phil Spencer, the recently appointed boss of all things Xbox at Microsoft, confirms that he isn't ashamed of the Xbox One hardware, which has been proven to be inferior to that of the PS4, saying that the future of the platform is still a great one.

I made a keyboard – let me tell you about it! I'm even typing this post using the keyboard I built. How meta.

While Japanese gamers are already gearing up for the New Nintendo 3DS models, gamers in the West need to wait until 2015 — that means that some special bundles of the existing hardware will arrive in time for the Holiday season. Confirmed by Nintendo of America at a GameStop conference and now via press release is a model that immediately catches the eye — an NES-themed 3DS XL that will be exclusive to GameStop in North America.

When Apple announced its 64-bit A7 processor, I dismissed the speculation that this could lead to a switch away from Intel chips for the Macintosh line for a homegrown “desktop-class” chip. I might have been wrong.

There has been renewed excitement at Lockitron HQ in the last few weeks as we pass shipping to our 3,000th backer. Following an incredibly oversubscribed crowdfunding campaign at the end of 2012 — during which we raised over $2.3 million (and garnered 15,000 backers) — we had to adapt our manufacturing plans and shift to volume production from our originally planned run of 1,000 units.

Addressing the Aereo-sized elephant in the room: How do you replace Aereo now that it's gone?

Can Google's Rebel Alliance of Android and Chrome OS finally dent Microsoft's Windows Evil Empire? I expect we'll see this desktop operating system war start in late 2014.

Despite what a new piece from The Information claims, Tony Fadell — Nest's founder and a former Apple executive who oversaw development of the iPod — does not "own" Google's consumer hardware division. The report stated that Sundar Pichai reportedly "dismantled almost all of the Android team’s hardware initiatives" to lend Fadell more creative freedom with Google's future products and overall hardware roadmap. In a recent tweet, Fadell completely refuted the claims

If Hewlett-Packard founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break. Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine.

Total spending on video gaming in the US added up to $4.6 billion USD in the first quarter (Q1) of 2014, according to a report from the NPD Group's Games Market Dynamics. Hardware sales were the strongest facet of gaming, with total sales accounting for almost a quarter of all spending. Driven by sales of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, hardware spending increased 47% to $983 million USD in Q1.

Will emerging markets really buy routers, servers and storage systems from US enterprise tech giants now that it's obvious the NSA intercepts them en route to install spying gear?

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don't get much love. That's a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony just unveiled tape that holds a whopping 148 GB per square inch, meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data. Prepare for the mixtape to end all mixtapes.

Tech firms are racing to come up with new “gesture-swipe” keyboards that let you wave your hands and around in the air to control your keyboard, type messages and manipulate data without sitting down and typing in one letter at a time. Based in part on sensor technology built for the Microsoft Kinect games, researchers say these ideas will help doctors use a computer while doing surgery, for example, or just drive a video game race car with an imaginary steering wheel.

The new cables are based on Intel's Silicon Photonics technology that pushes 25Gbps across each fiber. Last year, Intel demonstrated speeds of 100Gbps in each direction, using eight fibers. A new connector that goes by the name "MXC" holds up to 64 fibers (32 for transmitting and 32 for receiving), enabling a jump to 800Gbps in one direction and 800Gbps in the other, or an aggregate of "1.6Tbps" as Intel prefers to call it. (In case you're wondering, MXC is not an acronym for anything.)

The Ouya was supposed to be a revolutionary piece of hardware. Now it's being transformed into an "ecosystem."

The Surface 2 and the Nokia tablets are great hardware with a dim future - but Microsoft could fix that.

The South Korean government has decided to route sensitive data away from networks operated by Huawei, amid longstanding fears from the US that the Chinese company's infrastructure could be used to spy on communications. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the US had been urging its South Korean allies to route government communications away from Huawei networks, claiming that the infrastructure could be used to spy on communications with American military bases there.