When you are a life long carpenter with an amazing workshop, you’re going to make a lot of saw dust, and managing its collection and storage poses quite a challenge. [Russ] from [New Yorkshire Workshop] built an impressive Briquette press to handle the problem. It’s a hydraulic press that ingests saw dust and spits out compressed briquettes
Read MoreYou can buy the 5TB Western Digital portable hard drive for just $89.99 at Best Buy, which matches its all-time low price. | Image: Western Digital If you have a lot of data you need to back up or transfer, you might want to check out Best Buy’s current deal on Western Digital’s Easystore portable
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve searched for external SSDs on Amazon.com recently, you may have noticed something weird: mixed in with the 1TB and 2TB drives from brands like Samsung and SanDisk are a bunch of listings for 16TB SSDs, mostly around $100, and with surprisingly high user ratings. Every single
Read MoreWe say it often, but it’s worth repeating: this is the Golden Age of making and hacking. Between powerful free and open source software, low-cost PCB production, and high resolution 3D printers that can fit on your desk, a dedicated individual has everything they need to make their dream gadget a reality. If you ever
Read MoreDylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia’s CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google’s TensorFlow, and more — Over the last decade, the landscape of machine learning software development has undergone significant changes.
Read MoreIf you own an iPhone, the AirPods Pro is the obvious choice for listening to music, although there are alternatives too! Apple’s latest generation of AirPods Pro has just under six hours of battery life with ANC turned on, and the charging case provides another 24 hrs of listening time. But how do you recharge
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Samsung will have experiences set up to celebrate the Samsung Galaxy S23 launch. These physical event spaces will allow you to try out the Galaxy S23 before anyone else. The experiences open on February 1, the same day as the phones’ launch. Although we know for certain that Samsung
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority A leak suggests a Google tracker, similar to an AirTag, could be in the works. It would likely have a speaker and almost certainly use the dormant ultra-wideband tech in Pixel phones. Not much is known about the product, but it would likely launch this year. Personal trackers became
Read MoreOrnithopters have been — mostly — the realm of science fiction. However, a paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems by researchers at Lund University proposes that flapping wings may well power the drones of the future. The wing even has mock feathers. Birds, after all, do a great job of flying, and researchers think that part of
Read MoreWilliam Mauldin / Wall Street Journal: Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electrical grid are straining its mobile network, leading to a global hunt for equipment like batteries to keep the system online — Telecom operators and internet providers scour suppliers for better batteries, generators — Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s electrical grid …
Read MoreWe wanted to see what the Hackaday crowd was up to in first-person view tech, and you didn’t disappoint! Commercial FPV quads have become cheap enough these days that everyone and their mom got one for Christmas, so it was fantastic to see the DIY spirit in these projects. Thanks to everyone who entered. The
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A judge has ordered a group of laid-off Twitter employees to drop their class action lawsuit against the company, which accuses Twitter of not following through on its promised severance pay package, as reported earlier by Bloomberg and Reuters. In a ruling on Friday, US District Judge James
Read MoreDo you have a rental property? Are you looking for ways to make it more attractive to tenants who might have many options in your community, city, or state? One way to do so is by offering more value for the rent they pay — and you can achieve this with smart home technology. According to
Read MoreThere’s no better way to introduce yourself than handing over a blinky PCB business card and challenging the recipient to a game of Connect Four. And if [Dennis Kaandorp] turns up early for a meeting, he can keep himself busy playing the ever popular game of Snake on his PCB business card. The tabs are
Read MoreWay back before the tudum sound, it was just the sweet sweet sound of a disc spinning up. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix streaming is getting into its angsty teenage years, as today marks 15 years since it launched its streaming services. It’s easy to forget what things were like before
Read MoreAcclaimed director and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman shot a short film using only a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. The short is called Jackals & Fireflies and appears to center on a woman going through some sort of life change. You can watch the trailer on this page. There have been quite a few films shot on
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday, January 18 at noon Pacific for the Machining with Electricity Hack Chat with Daniel Herrington! With few exceptions, metalworking has largely been about making chips, and finding something hard enough and tough enough to cut those chips has always been the challenge. Whether it’s high-speed steel, tungsten carbide, or even little
Read MoreSapna Maheshwari / New York Times: Some US universities, including Alabama’s Auburn and the University of Oklahoma, are banning TikTok on their Wi-Fi networks, causing annoyance among students — The school’s prohibition brings a geopolitical fight front and center for TikTok’s biggest fans: young Americans.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google has updated the Clock app to make it easier to create a custom alarm. You can now record an alarm right from the app. Previously, you would need to record something and then sideload it. So far, this appears to be a Pixel exclusive. It’s always been fairly
Read MoreHulu is among the biggest streaming services in America, with award-winning originals and a huge back-catalog of shows and movies. You can choose from ad-supported and ad-free subscriptions, a Disney bundle, and a live TV option. So, once you sign up, how many people can watch Hulu at once? Read on for a breakdown of
Read MoreSturdy, adjustable and sitting on a handy rotating base, Lululook’s latest laptop stand will keep your MacBook at just the right height without any trouble at all.
Read MoreGoogle Stadia goes down for good on January 18th, 2023. That means you don’t have a lot of time to prepare for the end. Google is handling refunds, so there isn’t much for you to do there. However, there are some end-of-life steps Stadia owners can take to make their transition out of the platform
Read MoreBen Hickey / The Verge Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe new AirPods Pro look just like the first-gen model, but what counts are the improvements on the inside. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s latest generation of the AirPods Pro are back down to their lowest price, compliments of Verizon. The noise-canceling wireless earbuds are on sale for $199.99 when you
Read MoreNikkei Asia: Study: China led the US in AI research output and quality in 2021, producing ~43,000 papers, about twice as many as the US, with 7,401 of the most-cited papers — Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei among the top 10 companies by output — TOKYO/BEIJING — China is the undisputed champion …
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