At Chattanooga's Manufacturing Repair and Overstock, Inc. - or MRO, for short - a growing crew of nearly 30 people receives, inspects and fixes automated industrial parts from across the country.

Double-tapped circuit breakers are one of the most common electrical defects that home inspectors find. Everyone seems to sign off on this defect as a 'big deal', but I'm here to tell you it's not. It ...

A report from review site AnandTech says AMD's high-end quad-core Phenom processors can work, with modifications, on a number of low-end motherboards with built-in graphics. Brooke Crothers writes ...

Man looking at an open electrical panel in a home - Photoalto/eric Audras/Getty Images Imagine you're relaxing in your living room — the lights are on, the TV is streaming your current favorite show, ...

Reporting from Washington, D.C. — The Pentagon is pushing ahead with an expansion of the nation’s homeland missile defense system, despite a newly recognized deficiency that affects nearly all the ...

It’s not uncommon in cheaper devices to find a ribbon cable soldered directly to the circuit board like the one pictured above. Using a connector would have been a much more resilient approach, but ...

We all make mistakes, and there’s no shame in having to bodge a printed circuit board to fix a mistake. Most of us are content with cutting a trace or two with an Xacto or adding a bit of jumper wire ...

Imagine you're relaxing in your living room — the lights are on, the TV is streaming your current favorite show, the air ...