Every home needs renovations after a few decades, and the International Space Station is no different. This fall, they’ll be getting a new Universal Waste Management System (UWMS), aka a new toilet.
Though the news coincides with increased traffic to the ISS, this move stems from a more serious issue …read more
Ever since people figured out that the Raspberry Pi 4 has a PCIe bus, the race was on to be the first to connect a regular PCIe expansion card to a Raspberry Pi 4 SBC. Now [Zak Kemble] has created a new approach, using a bridge PCB that replaces the …read more
OnePlus has announced a new product line of cheaper phones called OnePlus Nord, with the goal…
Flying a quadcopter or other drone can be pretty exciting, especially when using the video signal to do the flying. It’s almost like a real-life video game or flight simulator in a way, except the aircraft is physically real. To bring this experience even closer to the reality of flying, …read more
The social platform just banned the president’s most notorious internet fan club, as part of a sitewide purge of forums that “promote hate.”
When [Neutrino-1] saw DFRobot’s DFPlayer module, he decided he wanted to make his own retro MP3 player. This tiny module comes packed with a ton of interesting capabilities such as EQ adjustment, volume control, and a 3 watt amplifier amongst other things. It can even play ads in between songs, …read more
On some 2011 Macbook Pro models, there is a tendency for the Radeon GPU to fail. This should mean game over for the computer, but surprisingly salvation is offered by its having not one but two GPUs on board. The Intel processor also has a GPU, and Apple use a …read more
While the US tech industry relentlessly tries to do business with the rest of the world, this week it became further embroiled in national politics. High-skill immigration visas have been suspended until the end of the year by the Trump administration, precluding thousands of present and future startup employees and founders from coming to the US and building companies here.
The Timecraft project by [Amy Zhao] and team members uses machine learning to figure out a way how an existing painting may have been originally been painted, stroke by stroke. In their paper titled ‘Painting Many Pasts: Synthesizing Time Lapse Videos of Paintings’, they describe how they trained a ML …read more
Even a niche subculture built around magical cartoon horses is reckoning with racism.
Every plausible configuration of social media in 2020 is unpalatable.
Paranoia about secret government plots thrives in times of uncertainty, when strange things happen, and when people are bored. This summer is a trifecta.
It sometimes takes decades to find out.
Suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better.
Social-media platforms can’t evade the scrutiny that so many other institutions in America are currently under.
Top mobile app development languages JavaScript Kotlin C++ C# Python PHP Swift Objective-C JAVA HTML 5…
Even fed-up tech workers are paralyzed by Silicon Valley’s culture.
The firms are all too eager to help the government manage the coronavirus crisis.
It is already a long time since I wanted to have some hands on experience with…
The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.
Having been working as an SEO for around ten years, last year I decided to take…
