Month: April 2022

How to download a GIF on Twitter

If you’re into GIF images in a big way, one of the places to find them is Twitter. After all, in a land where short messages reign supreme, a GIF is the image equivalent of a tweet. If you see a cool-looking funny GIF, you may want to download it to your computer. But is

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Sources: Meta plans two AR glasses for 2024, one codenamed Nazare, independent from phones with holograms to interact, and another cheap set codenamed Hypernova (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Meta plans two AR glasses for 2024, one codenamed Nazare, independent from phones with holograms to interact, and another cheap set codenamed Hypernova  —  Mark Zuckerberg has a grandiose vision for the metaverse, and he hopes that you’ll one day see the same thing, too …

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Nixie Spectrum Display Has Seven Bands

A spectrum visualizer is always a fun project, but we really liked [Yannick99]’s take on it since it uses seven IN-13 Nixie tubes for the display. The tubes, of course, need high voltage so part of the project is a high voltage power supply. The spectrum part is a little more ordinary using an op

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Arming with an OS

We see tons of projects with the infamous “Blue Pill” STM32 boards. They are cheap and plentiful and have a lot of great features, or at least they were before the chip shortage. I recently picked up a “Black Pill”, which is very similar but has an even more powerful processor. For a few bucks,

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Amazon will rebrand IMDb TV as Freevee starting April 27 and plans to grow its slate of originals by 70% in 2022 (Lesley Goldberg/The Hollywood Reporter)

Lesley Goldberg / The Hollywood Reporter: Amazon will rebrand IMDb TV as Freevee starting April 27 and plans to grow its slate of originals by 70% in 2022  —  The ad-supported streamer, home to ‘Alex Rider’ and a growing slate of original series and movies, will change its name starting April 27.  —  Amazon-backed IMDb

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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company, which issues the USDT stablecoin, reduced commercial paper to 30% of its reserves in Q4 2021, down from 44% in Q3 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company, which issues the USDT stablecoin, reduced commercial paper to 30% of its reserves in Q4 2021, down from 44% in Q3  —  – Tether plans to reduce its holdings of commercial debt in its reserves, Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino told CNBC.

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