[Ric Real] is entering the 2023 Hackaday Prize with the Gen5X, a generatively designed 3D printed five-axis 3D printer. The concept is not a new one, with the type of construction being seen a few times here and there. In addition to the usual three directions of motion, we’re familiar with, with the cartesian bot
Read MoreIf you have a curiosity about how fancy graphics cards actually work, and why they are so well-suited to AI-type applications, then take a few minutes to read [Tim Dettmers] explain why this is so. It’s not a terribly long read, but while it does get technical there are also car analogies, so there’s something for
Read MoreThe old adage that you’ll make a fortune by developing a better mouse trap is not super realistic, as the engineers behind Sony’s Betamax video tape standard could tell you. However, you can still learn a lot building your own, as this project from [ROBO HUB] demonstrates. The trap is intended to catch mice in
Read MoreReuters: Foxconn founder Terry Gou resigns as a company board member due to “personal reasons”, less than a week after announcing a bid to be Taiwan’s next president — Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW), resigned as a company board member …
Read MoreCristina Criddle / Financial Times: Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format — Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform’s longer-form videos
Read MoreHere’s some fascinating work presented at SIGGRAPH 2023 of a method for radiance field rendering using a novel technique called Gaussian Splatting. What’s that mean? It means synthesizing a 3D scene from 2D images, in high quality and in real time, as the short animation shown above shows. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are a method
Read MoreJames Clayton / BBC: EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023 — Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said.
Read MoreYiwen Lu / New York Times: The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault — Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company
Read MoreThe 2025 Mini Cooper EV’s interior. | Image: Mini The 2025 Mini Cooper EV reveal is showing off a facelift, increased range, and a giant, round OLED screen floating in front of the dashboard. The company says the Cooper E and Cooper SE — the two EV variants — have 190 miles and 250 miles
Read MoreA picture from Burning Man in 2009. | Photo by Frederic Larson/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Nobody can go in or out of Burning Man after heavy rainfall on Friday turned the desert floor of the playa into impassible, sticky mud, prompting the Festival’s organizers late last night to ask as many as 70,000
Read More[Jeff Geerling]’s latest project is for the birds — literally. Even though he has a brand new high-speed fiber optic internet connection, online backups of YouTube video projects still take hours. He decided to see if the conclusions from a 2009 in South Africa study still hold true today — that using carrier pigeons to
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private” — X’s recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users’ job
Read MoreMany companies featured on ReadWrite partner with us. Opinions are our own, but compensation and in-depth research determine how products may be selected and ranked. Learn more about how we make money. Welcome to our comprehensive guide on the best beginner telescopes of 2023! If you’ve ever gazed up at the night sky in awe and wondered
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority I’ve spent the last few years assembling my ideal smart home. More importantly, I’ve invested much time and money to ensure that most of my home automations run without user intervention. But there are still some instances, like when I’m sitting at my desk, where having a control surface
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has released a new feature for its PowerToys utility suite called Crop and Lock, which lets you crop an app window to show only the details you want to see. The company brought PowerToys back from the dead in 2019 and open-sourced it on GitHub; other tools
Read MoreZheping Huang / Bloomberg: A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China’s approval, and how they deal with sensitive content — China has approved the first batch of AI chatbots for public rollout, and I tested them out. But first… Test time
Read MoreMany plants are capable of tracking the sun in order to get the most possible light. [hannu_hell] built a solar powered sculpture that replicates this light sensitivity for the benefit of better charging its own batteries, allowing it to run theoretically indefinitely where suitable light was available. The 3D-printed flower features six movable petals mounted
Read MoreMany plants are capable of tracking the sun in order to get the most possible light. [hannu_hell] built a solar powered sculpture that replicates this light sensitivity for the benefit of better charging its own batteries, allowing it to run theoretically indefinitely where suitable light was available. The 3D-printed flower features six movable petals mounted
Read MoreThe question on everyone’s lips when a new piece of hardware comes out is this: Will it run DOOM? Many pieces of modern hardware have been coaxed into playing id Software’s 1993 classic, but there have always been some older machines that just didn’t have the power to do it. One of them has now
Read MoreMophie’s new magnetic stands and mounts. | Image: Mophie Mophie just announced at IFA that it’s releasing three Qi2-compatible, 15W wireless smartphone chargers — the Snap Plus Powerstation Mini Stand ($69.95), the Snap Plus 3-in-1 stand ($129.95), and the Snap Plus wireless charging vent mount ($69.95) — starting later this year. Mophie doesn’t mention the
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as it’s no longer under active development — Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development …
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority I’ve spent the last few years assembling my ideal smart home. More importantly, I’ve invested much time and money to ensure that most of my home automations run without user intervention. But there are still some instances, like when I’m sitting at my desk, where having a control surface
Read MoreWelcome to the 499th edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google Chrome may let you share passwords with up to six other people. Those six people are, of course, part of your Google family group if you have one. Once the feature goes live, there should be
Read MoreAri Levy / CNBC: Instacart’s IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% YoY in 2023, sparking an online spat between staff of rivals Snowflake and Databricks — – Instacart’s long-awaited IPO prospectus last week turned controversial in a way the grocery-delivery company wasn’t anticipating.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Opinion post by Calvin Wankhede As we rapidly approach ChatGPT’s one-year anniversary, it’s safe to say that the world will never be the same again. Over the past year, I’ve personally used the chatbot for planning vacations, fixing my smart home problems, and everything in between. And, for perhaps
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