If you speak French and you have an Arduino Vidor 4000, you are in luck because there’s some good news. The good news is there’s finally some inside information about how to configure the onboard FPGA yourself. The bad news though is that it is pretty sparse. If your high school French isn’t up to
Read MoreFor translating the dreams of an architect, designer or landscaper to life, they need a dependable visualization tool to sell their idea. For many of those professionals, Ashampoo 3D CAD apps are the digital tool of choice. Right now, TNW Deals is slashing the price on two of Ashampoo’s most popular programs — CAD Professional
Read More“They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!” This often parodied quote from Mel Gibson’s William Wallace in the film Braveheart is something of a contradiction, and yet its sentiment is easy to understand. Nothing gets our hackles up more than being told that we have no choice over something. The
Read MoreWhen researching what it’s like to intern at a startup, the majority of responses are positive. Startup interns can get real-world experience and take on tasks that corporate interns (or even corporate entry-level positions) typically do not do. There are many perks to interning at a startup, but the startup world is not for everyone.
Read MoreThe molar mass of carbon monoxide (CO) is 28.0, and the molar mass of air is 28.8, so CO will rise in an ambient atmosphere. It makes sense to detect it farther from the ground, but getting a tall ladder is not convenient and certainly doesn’t make for fast deployment. What do you do if
Read MoreFrom the Soviet shuttle Buran to a retired 747, to a U-boat, cars and more, the Speyer in Germany is one of the best museums in the world for fans of cool vehicles. See an actual Soviet space shuttle at the Technik Museum Speyer – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWater, wine, beer and bay: We tested the durability claims of Apple’s new flagship to see how liquid-resistant it really is. Just how waterproof is the iPhone XS? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreScientists working at the LIGO experiment in the US have for the first time detected elusive ripples in the fabric of space and time known as gravitational waves. There is no doubt that the finding is one of the most groundbreaking physics discoveries of the past 100 years. But what are they? To best understand
Read MoreIt’s over. Amazon won. For now, the massive online retail giant stands atop every other ecommerce platform, leaving everyone else to fight over the scraps left in its shadow. If you’re doing ecommerce, you’re probably selling on Amazon (or you’re in one of the few niches that hasn’t been absorbed into its market-distorting gravitational field).
Read MoreAs the world’s most populous Spanish speaking country, Mexico is well positioned to be a startup power. Since the signing of the NAFTA in 1994, Mexico’s real GDP skyrocketed has risen to $1.3 trillion, placing the country second in Latin America and 15th in the world in terms of GDP. However, historically Mexico’s economy has been
Read MoreOne of the great things about hacking together projects these days is how many powerful subsystems are readily available to reuse. [Sanjeet] took full advantage of a whole slate of reusable pieces when he built R3-14 — a personal assistant robot that you can see in action in the video below. Many people started out in
Read MoreAsteroids is one of the classic games of the early arcade era. Launched in 1979 by Atari, it relied upon using an XY vector monitor to deliver crisp graphics for its space-based gameplay. One of the limitations of the original arcade games was that the game was only rendered in a single colour, white. Over
Read MoreApple is buying a $600 million stake in Dialog Semiconductor in a deal Dialog is describing as an asset transfer and licensing deal. Dialog’s current portfolio is focused mainly on mobile devices, with Bluetooth wearables-on-a-chip, CODEC chips for smartphones, and power management ICs for every type of portable electronics. Power managment ICs are by far the most visible
Read MoreKellen / Droid Life: Google’s real-time translations now available on Android phones and all Assistant-optimized headphones, not just Google Pixel Buds — Google’s Pixel Buds may not be the smash success that Apple’s AirPods have become in the wireless earbuds space, but there’s no denying that their ability … Google's real-time translations now available on
Read MoreFor a five-year-old future Hackaday scribe, there could be no greater day than that on which a Dymo label maker appeared in the house. With its spinny daisy-wheel to choose a character and its squeezy handle to emboss the letter into the plastic tape, there would follow a period of going nuts kerchunking out misspelled
Read MorePaul Sawers / VentureBeat: Thalmic Labs discontinues its Myo armband that allowed users to control devices like drones and smartphones via hand gestures, teases new product — Canadian wearables company Thalmic Labs has announced that its ceasing sales of its gesture- and motion-guided Myo armband … Thalmic Labs discontinues its Myo armband that allowed users
Read MoreThe greatest invention relating to music in the 20th century was multi-track recording, for which we have Les Paul to thank. The second greatest? Non-linear editing and Pro Tools. For some bizarre reason, we have Ricky Martin to thank for that because Livin’ La Vida Loca was the first #1 single to be recorded and mixed entirely
Read MoreThe tie-dyed set of indie marijuana growers may still have its place, but an industrial approach to cannabis seems to be on the horizon. Pot growers eye high-tech future at New West Summit – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStephen Hall / 9to5Google: Google did not mention Android once during its Made by Google 2018 keynote, a first for a public-facing hardware event by the company — Android is the world’s most ubiquitous OS and one of the most important parts of Google’s business. But it’s becoming clearer that the company no longer wants
Read MoreMegan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Court denies Lime’s request for a temporary restraining order to block Skip and Scoot from deploying their electric scooters in San Francisco on Monday — A judge today denied Lime’s request for a temporary restraining order that would block Skip and Scoot from deploying their electric scooters in San Francisco
Read MoreWe are used to imagining radio telescopes as immense pieces of scientific apparatus, such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, or the Lovell telescope in the UK. It’s a surprise then that they can be constructed on a far more modest sale using off-the-shelf components, and it’s a path that [Gonçalo Nespral] has taken
Read MoreIt’s Focal’s first high-end closed back headphone, and sounds awfully good! Focal’s Elegia headphone gobsmacks the Audiophiliac – CNET Source: CNet
Read More“I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.” This phrase before is based on a quote from the 1977 film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ short story “Empire of the Ants.” In the revised quote, “robot” replaces “insects,” the idea of the meme being that anything can: llamas, octopi, robo-dogs, you name it. When it comes
Read MoreThe Audiophiliac finds so many high-end audio goodies at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver. These high-end audio devices take sound to another level – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFirst Man recounts efforts to get astronauts to the moon. Keeping them safe on Earth was no easy feat either. NASA's Apollo missions took humans to the moon — and my dad played a part – CNET Source: CNet
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