The technique of assembling circuits without substrate goes by many names; you may know it as flywiring, deadbugging, point to point wiring, or freeform circuits. Sometimes this technique is used for practical purposes like fixing design errors post-production or escaping tiny BGA components (ok, that one might be more cool than practical). Perhaps our favorite use
Read MoreWhy wait until actual Black Friday, start saving on stuff for your car or your garage right now. Black Friday 2018: The best deals on Amazon for your car and garage – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreBypass the lines this week and check out Roadshow’s picks of the best Amazon deals your car and garage Black Friday 2018: Roadshow's guide to the best Amazon deals for your car – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreKerry Flynn / Digiday: Inside Reddit’s brand and agency roadshow to lure more ad dollars — Last month, Reddit sales executives visited OMD’s New York office. Armed with a new sales deck that described ad products like sponsored posts with video, examples of how they’ve driven business results for clients and data … Inside Reddit's
Read MoreAfter hearing rumors about a mid-range Google Pixel phone for months, we’ve got our first look of the phone. Last week, Russian website Rozketed got their hands on some pictures and details about the device. While Google hasn’t confirmed that this is the real deal (or that a mid-range Pixel is on the way), we’re fairly
Read MoreYou can get an Xbox One S for as low as $199, or include Battlefield 5 for just $30 more. Black Friday 2018: The best Xbox One sales and bundles begin – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis year’s Black Friday Nintendo Switch bundle will get net you Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for free. Also — Labo is cheap! Black Friday 2018: The best Nintendo Switch, 2DS and Labo deals – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNo need to wait: The year’s best deal on a PS4 is available now Black Friday PS4 Spider-Man bundle now available for 0 at Target – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEvery once in a while, you’ll find some weirdness that will send your head spinning. Most of the time you’ll chalk it up to a bad solder joint, some bad code, or just your own failings. This time it’s different. This is a story of weirdness that’s due entirely to a pin that shouldn’t be
Read MoreIan Sherr / CNET: Mojo Vision exits stealth and says it has raised $50M for its “invisible computing” AR platform; sources say Mojo Vision is aiming to develop AR contact lenses — What if instead of a bulky headset or cumbersome glasses to give you the futuristic augmented reality overlay … Mojo Vision exits stealth
Read MoreRewatching “The Social Network,” eight years later: What seemed like an underdog story at the time is now more of a warning. The Facebook Movie Told Us What We Needed to Know About Mark Zuckerberg Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: San Francisco-based travel marketing platform Sojern raises $120M Series D led by TCV at a valuation of $300M+, says it’s been profitable for last 13 quarters — Travel continues to be one of the biggest verticals online, projected to be worth over $1 trillion by 2022 … San Francisco-based travel marketing
Read MoreWe got pointed by [packrat] to a 2015 presentation by [Dan Holohan] on the history and art of steam heating systems. At the advent of central heating systems for entire buildings, steam was used instead of water or air for the transport medium. These systems were installed in landmark buildings including the Empire State Building,
Read MoreCarl Miller / WIRED UK: Profile of British Army’s 77th Brigade, staffed with experts in graphic design, social media, and data analytics to conduct online influence operations — They are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts. Welcome to the age of information warfare Profile of British Army's 77th
Read MoreMegan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Apex.AI raises $15.5M Series A from Canaan, Lightspeed, others for the enterprise version of the Robot Operating System, an open-source middleware for robotics — Apex.AI is emerging out of stealth today with quite the claim — an operating system for autonomous vehicles that will never fail. Apex.AI raises .5M Series
Read MoreBlack Friday is the best time to buy a new gaming console, and this year’s deals have begun. Black Friday 2018 console deals now live: PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch bundles start at 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe greatest bit of consumer electronics is shipping and the reviews are out: Amazon’s Alexa-enabled microwave is a capable microwave, but befuddling to the voice-controlled-everything neophyte. Voice controlled everything is the last hope we have for technological innovation; it’s the last gasp of the consumer electronics industry. This is Amazon’s first thing with a built-in voice assistant,
Read MoreAnne Casselman / National Geographic: AI is transforming wildlife research by automating some tasks typically done manually by researchers, like identifying individual animals from photos — From analyzing animal photos to combing through YouTube, new software is harnessing data never before accessible to scientists. AI is transforming wildlife research by automating some tasks typically done
Read MoreSteve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Swedish scooter-sharing startup VOI Technology raises $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital with Spencer Rascoff, Justin Mateen, Jeff Wilkes among investors — VOI Technology, an e-scooter startup headquartered in Sweden but with pan-European ambitions, has raised $50 million in Series A funding, confirming our earlier scoop. Swedish scooter-sharing startup VOI
Read MoreDeepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: this June, Zuckerberg told ~50 execs that Facebook was at war and he’d act more decisively, leading to reorgs, key departures, tension with Sandberg — New approach causes turmoil, driving several key executives from the company and creating tensions with longtime Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg Sources: this
Read MoreThe 55-inch Vizio M-Series for $450? That’s among the best deals of the year. Black Friday 2018 deals at Sam's Club start Thursday: Fitbit Versa for 0, 55-inch Vizio TV for 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNew Amazon devices joined the Black Friday sale on Sunday, Nov. 18. Here’s the full list of Echo, Fire, Kindle and other Amazon gear and their sale prices! Black Friday 2018 Amazon deals now available: Fire TV, Roku, Recast DVR, Fire tablets, Blink cameras and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAaron van Wirdum / Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin Cash has forked, with Bitcoin Cash ABC as an apparent early winner, but Bitcoin Cash SV camp is still threatening 51% attacks, spam, and more — Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different
Read MoreAndrew Liptak / The Verge: Tumblr says it is working to resolve an issue with iOS app after it disappeared from the App Store amid speculation it was removed due to inappropriate content — The company says that it’s working to resolve ‘an issue’ with the app — Tumblr’s iOS app is missing from Apple’s
Read MoreCompleting someone else’s thought is not an easy trick for A.I. But new systems are starting to crack the code of natural language. Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence Source: NY Times Tech
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