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A Mega-Tiny Arduino

Integrated circuits, chipsets, memory modules, and all kinds of other transistor-based technology continues to get smaller, cheaper, and more energy efficient as time moves on. Not only are the components themselves smaller, but their supporting infrastructure is as well. Computers like the Raspberry Pi are about the size of a credit card and have computing

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The 10 best alternatives to Evernote

Our daily lives are filled with so many events that it can often feel like a never-ending stream of information. While lugging around a physical notebook to jot down observations and ideas can help, using too much paper can be wasteful. Note-taking apps like Evernote have all but taken the place of paper notes, and,

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ATtiny85 Automates Your Smartphone

It might not seem too impressive these days, but when microcontrollers with hardware USB support were more expensive and rare, the VUSB library was often used to create USB devices with an ATtiny85. It became so popular that the ATtiny85 even got packaged into USB dongle formfactors, like the DigiSpark boards. Well, you might not

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Ford launches Latitude AI, a subsidiary run by former Argo AI employees, to focus initially on commercializing a hands-free, eyes-off driver assistance system (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Ford launches Latitude AI, a subsidiary run by former Argo AI employees, to focus initially on commercializing a hands-free, eyes-off driver assistance system  —  Ford has launched a wholly owned subsidiary — staffed by hundreds of former employees of Argo AI — that will initially focus …

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A look at TikTok’s viral Bold Glamour filter, which an expert says likely uses generative adversarial networks, amid fears the tool may hurt users’ self-esteem (The Verge)

The Verge: A look at TikTok’s viral Bold Glamour filter, which an expert says likely uses generative adversarial networks, amid fears the tool may hurt users’ self-esteem  —  TikTok rolled out new AI tools for filters last month.  But the company won’t say if its new Bold Glamour effect uses them …

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Dead by Daylight’s getting a movie

Image: Behaviour Interactive The video game film adaptation machine keeps merrily chugging along with Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster teaming up with Behaviour Interactive to produce a feature-length film adaptation of Dead By Daylight. The announcement of the new venture comes days after Blumhouse shared that it’s starting its own gaming division. Atomic Monster founder

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Teladoc Health, which runs BetterHelp, settles with the FTC for $7.8M and agrees to stop sharing data with Meta, Snap, and other companies for ad purposes (John Tozzi/Bloomberg)

John Tozzi / Bloomberg: Teladoc Health, which runs BetterHelp, settles with the FTC for $7.8M and agrees to stop sharing data with Meta, Snap, and other companies for ad purposes  —  Teladoc Health Inc.’s online mental health unit will be banned from sharing information with Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc …

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Hacker Hotel 2023: Back Again!

After three years, it’s odd to think back to those few weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic morphed from something on the news into an immediate and ever-present threat which kept us isolating for so long. For me, some of the last moments of normality were a trip to the Netherlands for Hacker Hotel, a hacker

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