Folks who refurbish and rebuild vans into off-grid campers (especially with the ability to work in them remotely) put a fantastic amount of planning and work into their projects. [Rob] meticulously documented his finished van conversion and while he does a ton of clever work, we especially liked how he shows modern tools like photogrammetry
Read MoreGulikit’s joystick replacements use Hall effect sensors that make them less likely to wear down. | Image: Gulikit After years of dealing with Joy-Con drift and no satisfactory answers from Nintendo, we may finally have our solution. A company called Gulikit created a set of Switch joystick replacements that promise to banish stick drift once
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Amazfit Falcon is a very attractive device. For an Amazfit wearable, it also comes at a relatively high price. Whether the watch piques your interest or not, one thing is clear: Amazfit is extending its reach in the smartwatch space. The company quite literally sent the Amazfit T-rex
Read MoreKeri Blakinger / The Marshall Project: How some US incarcerated people use contraband mobile phones to educate themselves, make TikToks, find love, publicize prison conditions, earn money, and more — Despite the security concerns of administrators, incarcerated people use phones to hustle, make TikToks or publicize prison conditions.
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Amazfit Falcon is a very attractive device. For an Amazfit wearable, it also comes at a relatively high price. Whether the watch piques your interest or not, one thing is clear: Amazfit is extending its reach in the smartwatch space. The company quite literally sent the Amazfit T-rex
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Analysis: Apple timed the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and HomePod launch to boost this quarter’s revenue, while avoiding supply issues during the holiday season — Apple timed the launch of the new MacBook Pro, Mac mini and HomePod to shore up its current quarter’s revenue …
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple’s working on a MacBook Air and iMac with an M3 chip built using the more efficient 3-nanometer fabrication process, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. While it’s not clear when the two upgraded devices might launch, Gurman expects the M3 chip to arrive later this
Read MoreTwo of Japan’s heavy hitters teamed up to build a limited-edition, super-cheap, China-only electric moped: We took it for a spin.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority In the summer of 2022, I moved across the United States from Connecticut to California. I landed in a small, two-bedroom rental house. The house itself was built by the owner as a pandemic-era project. Since it is brand new construction and I am his first tenant, he
Read MoreProsthetic limb design is an area where desktop manufacturing has made huge strides, but there’s always room for improvement. For example, take a look at [Ian Davis] and his attempts to design a simpler prosthetic finger. [Davis] favors his aluminum partial hand prosthetic for its strength, but because it was scratch built for his particular
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The Amazfit Falcon is a very attractive device. For an Amazfit wearable, it also comes at a relatively high price. Whether the watch piques your interest or not, one thing is clear: Amazfit is extending its reach in the smartwatch space. The company quite literally sent the Amazfit T-rex
Read MoreIt might lack a few snazzy features, and it’s not as navigationally capable as a Garmin, but this sports watch gets the basics right.
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority Opinion post by Hadlee Simons Microsoft hasn’t released a new Android device since 2021’s Surface Duo 2, but a new report may have shed some light on the company’s future plans. Windows Central reported that Microsoft ditched the dual-screen design of previous Surface Duo devices in favor of developing
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at Mittens, a ruthless Chess.com bot with a kitten avatar introduced on January 1 that is driving more people than ever to play in the site’s history — A ruthless bot with an innocuous avatar is driving chess players crazy — The heels of the chess world have included Soviet
Read MoreFor the proper retro gaming aesthetic, plenty of gamers look to old CRT displays. Older games can look better on these displays because the original programmers took their visual characteristics into account. Finding a CRT from the 90s or early 2000s is one option, but an even better option is a broadcast video monitor (BVM)
Read MoreWhy does your guitar sound that way? Is it your amp, your pickups, or your pedals? Jim Lill is trying to find out, one filmed A/B test at a time.
Read More[Manuel Caldeira] has built a nice electronics work area that would be the envy of many, complete with an under-shelf rail of custom-built instruments that are specific to the needs of areas of electronics that [Manuel] is involved with. The highlighted project here is a capacitor leakage tester, which is very handy for sorting through piles
Read MoreNilesh Christopher / Rest of World: Creators from India’s hinterland are going viral on YouTube Shorts and running into copyright issues for “fact channels” that add context to other users’ videos — A new generation of creators found success on YouTube Shorts. Now, YouTube is after them for violating its community guidelines.
Read MoreTwo physicists find that our universe has a higher entropy—and is therefore more likely—than alternative possible universes.
Read MoreThe retrocomputer enthusiast has increasingly to grapple with not only runaway computer prices but the astronomical cost of vintage peripherals. A welcome solution in some cases comes from the Raspberry Pi, which has proved itself fast enough to emulate those add-ons for a lot less outlay. A good one comes from [Niklas Ekström], who’s made
Read MoreAnnie Burky / Fierce Healthcare: Missouri-based Paytient, which offers health payment accounts to health care and insurance companies, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M — Paytient, a company that built health payment accounts, announced a $40 million series B funding round. Paytient snatched up $40 million in series B funds.
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Hackers leak police raid plans, confidential reports, AWS private keys, and other sensitive data from the servers of ODIN, which makes apps for the US police — Leaked files reveal tactical plans for police raids, surveillance, and facial recognition — Detailed tactical plans …
Read MoreSony used to sell digital cameras that recorded on actual floppy disks. We’ve come a long way, but [Mathieu] put a floppy in a digital camera recently for an entirely different reason. First, though, he had to modify the camera to work on the full spectrum, something he covered in an earlier video. You can
Read MoreJez Corden / Windows Central: Microsoft has laid off the entire teams behind the virtual reality platform AltspaceVR, which will shut down in March, and the Mixed Reality Tool Kit framework — HoloLens, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality are all but dead at Microsoft. — What you need to know
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