At their best, laptops are a compromise design. Manufacturers go to great lengths to make the slimmest, lightest, whatever-est laptops possible, and the engineering that goes into doing so is truly amazing. But then they throw in the charger, which ends up being a huge brick with wire attached to it, and call it a
Read MoreCredit: Warner Bros When Bob Kane and Bill Finger created The Batman for Detective Comics 27 in 1939, they likely had no idea that the Caped Crusader would become one of the most popular fictional characters of all time. In addition to his many comic book incarnations, Batman has appeared in tons of animated TV
Read MoreReuters: Didi announces a shareholder meeting on May 23 to vote on delisting of its shares from the NYSE and reports Q4 2021 revenue of $6.4B, down about 12.6% YoY — Didi Global Inc (DIDI.N) will hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on May 23 to vote on its delisting plans in the United States
Read MoreThe first PCBs we built involved a draftsman laying out large pieces of tape. The finished artwork would be photographically reduced to produce the board. This solved a few problems. It was easier to work on the large pieces and any errors were reduced by the scale amount. Boards from this era have a distinct
Read MoreJonathan Haidt / The Atlantic: Social media platforms have weakened major forces that bind democracies together, especially after 2009 when the virality of social media started to intensify — What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told …
Read MoreOf course, we all know that capacitors are conceptually two conductors separated by a dielectric of some sort. But outside of air-variable capacitors you normally don’t see them looking like that. For example, a film capacitor has its plates rolled up in a coil with an insulating film in between. You can’t really see that
Read MoreNathan Baschez / Every: Twitter should not only open source its algorithm but also create a marketplace where anyone can build their own algorithms, and use the ones created by others — You don’t have to be IN real estate to invest in it. Fundrise is an easy-to-use platform that lets you build …
Read MoreIf you’re an experienced hacker, you’ve probably run into a problem at some point and thought “let’s make a tool to automate that”. A few hours later you’ve got your tool, but then realize that the amount of work you put into making the tool vastly exceeds what you would have needed to solve the
Read MoreAmy Feldman / Forbes: A look at Lumafield, which designs CT scanners for consumer products companies like L’Oreal, OXO, and Trek Bicycle, and has raised $32.5M — Lumafield emerges from stealth with $32.5 million in funding and early customers that include L’Oreal, OXO and Trek Bicycle.
Read MoreThe days of yore saw telex machines and dot-matrix printers with continuous feed paper churning out data in hardcopy form in offices around the world. [Jan Derogee] wanted a bit of that old-school charm, and set about building a RSS news printer using a venerable old printer in his possession. The build relies on an
Read MoreOrganizers need approval from at least 30 percent of workers to hold a union election. | Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Retail Apple employees at a New York City store in Grand Central Terminal have started collecting signatures to form a union, according to a report from The Washington Post. The organizers, who reportedly go
Read More84 years ago, a teenager built a TV set in a basement in Hammond, Indiana. The teen was a radio amateur, [John Anderson W9YEI], and since it was the late 1930s the set was a unique build — one of very few in existence built to catch one of the first experimental TV transmitters on
Read MoreReed Albergotti / Washington Post: Workers at Apple’s flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union — If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized — Workers at Apple’s flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location …
Read MoreRebecca Szkutak / Forbes: A profile of Anna Fang, CEO of China-based ZhenFund, who has backed 30+ seed-stage startups that became unicorns and 90+ startups that had a successful exit — When ZhenFund CEO Anna Fang was new to venture investing, her mentor told her that the right entrepreneurs to back are the ones …
Read MoreThe iPhone 13 mini is the perfect little phone for many of us, and the MagSafe ring that allows the use of a MagSafe charger and other accessories is one of its many appealing features. However, if you use a regular iPhone case, it can interfere with MagSafe technology. So, if you want to take
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority The first smartphones weren’t the photography behemoths that today’s flagship devices have become. Back then, if you cared about image quality, you had to lug around a dedicated camera alongside your smartphone. Not anymore. Just about any smartphone today will deliver decent images, and some, like the Google Pixel
Read MoreThe UCF Knights will have QR codes on the back of their jerseys. | Photo by Roy K. Miller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This spring season, the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) football team will don QR codes instead of numbers on the back of their jerseys (via SportsLogos.net). The team showed off their new
Read MoreHello everyone and welcome to the latest Nintendo recap. This week has been absolutely packed with Nintendo news. First off, we learned that Bugsnax is finally making it to Switch this month and bringing with it 80% more content in a free update. Plus, one of the most influential Zelda games hit a huge milestone
Read MoreHaving a pool is great, but it also requires significant monitoring and maintenance to keep it crystal clear and clean. The OPNpool controller from [Coert Vonk] aims to help in this task, integrating neatly into the smart home ecosystem of today. OPNpool runs on an ESP32, and is capable of monitoring pool controllers, pumps, and
Read MoreMike Masnick / Techdirt: Musk’s definition of free speech is utter nonsense and his suggested Twitter fixes totally ignore the content moderation lessons that platforms already learned — from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Editing a tweet using Twitter’s upcoming edit button could leave a digital trace of your tweet’s history, according to reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong. In a tweet, Manchun Wong explains that the edit function appears to have an “immutable” quality, which means Twitter may create an entirely new
Read MoreWelcome to the 428th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google is suing a man for using its Google services to do bad things. A man set up a face dog adoption website, accepted money from clients, and never delivered any puppies. The guy also used Gmail,
Read MoreToday we’re taking a look at the best camera phones of the year. Unless you’re a professional photographer, you probably don’t need an overpriced digital camera in your bag of tricks. Smartphone photography has taken over. Whether you’re snapping stills of sunsets, using Snapchat, or taking videos, you need the best camera phone to make
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Opinion post by Roger Fingas I’m a firm believer in the value of smartwatches and fitness trackers. They’ve helped me get fit, and just last week I was able to use airplane boarding passes without always having to pull out paper copies or my phone. In daily life,
Read MoreBlockchain technology is a distributed database that allows for secure, transparent, and tamper-proof transactions. Transactions are verified by all nodes on the network, which makes it difficult for hackers to hack into the system. However, blockchain technology is still in its early stages and there is room for improvement. Companies that are willing to experiment
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