Month: April 2022

New Tech and the Old Ways

This week on Hackaday, we featured a project that tickled my nostalgia bone, and proved that there are cool opportunities when bringing new tech to old problems. Let me explain. [Muth] shared a project with us that combines old-school analog photography printing with modern LCD screens. The basic idea is to use a 4K monochrome

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New crypto mortgages in the US real estate market let property buyers pledge their digital holdings as collateral for a loan, with no down payments necessary (Heather Perlberg/Bloomberg)

Heather Perlberg / Bloomberg: New crypto mortgages in the US real estate market let property buyers pledge their digital holdings as collateral for a loan, with no down payments necessary  —  It took Vincent Burniske months to get a seven-figure loan to buy two small apartment buildings in a coveted Miami neighborhood.

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Save $20 off a new Nintendo Switch at Woot

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Let’s end April with a barrage of great deals, shall we? For a limited time (Saturday only, and until stock sells out), Woot is offering solid discounts on both the standard Nintendo Switch (the non-OLED version) and the smaller, cheaper Switch Lite, and if you make your

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The Weekly Authority: Android 13’s public beta

Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 192nd edition here, with Android 13’s public beta, Musk’s Twitter purchase, Sony’s subscription stacking clamp down, and more… I’m enjoying the UK’s long Mayday weekend — hoping for some sunshine so we can

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RelationalAI, which develops knowledge graphs for data-driven apps, raises a $75M Series B led by Tiger Global and adds ex-Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia to its board (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: RelationalAI, which develops knowledge graphs for data-driven apps, raises a $75M Series B led by Tiger Global and adds ex-Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia to its board  —  RelationalAI, a startup that wants to change the way data-driven applications are built by combining a database system with a knowledge graph …

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Inside Twitter, frustrations have mounted about Elon Musk’s moderation plans, ahead of elections in Brazil and the midterm election in the US (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Kate Conger / New York Times: Inside Twitter, frustrations have mounted about Elon Musk’s moderation plans, ahead of elections in Brazil and the midterm election in the US  —  Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn’t appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.

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