It’s been at least a couple of months since we’ve seen a different 3D modeling language project, so here’s [Lukasz Janyst] with GhostSCAD: a take on creating OpenSCAD models, using the Go language as the front end, bringing all the delights this modern modular language has to offer (and a few of its own idiosyncrasies.)
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The Vita3K emulator is now available on Android devices. It allows users to emulate PlayStation Vita games on a phone or tablet. The PlayStation Vita was Sony’s last handheld gaming console, bringing a selection of exclusive games, console ports, RPGs, and indie games. We heard last week that the
Read MoreThere’s a new addition to the Adafruit family, and it’s not a microcontroller board as you’d expect – however, we will still find plenty to learn from. On the Adafruit blog, [Phillip Torrone] shares a set of high-contrast images with us; the idea for such images is that they’re more appealing for a child during
Read MoreWall Street Journal: IDC: ByteDance’s Pico more than tripled its share of the global VR market YoY to ~15% by Q3 2022 while Meta’s share fell from 90% to ~75% in the same period — Pico, owned by ByteDance, has increased shipments of VR headsets as it attempts to compete with Meta’s Quest 2 —
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: the SEC told Paxos the agency plans to sue the crypto firm, alleging the Binance USD stablecoin that Paxos issues and lists is an unregistered security — The agency has been intensifying its enforcement of major crypto players — The Securities and Exchange Commission …
Read MoreSo, maybe right now isn’t the best time to get into the high-altitude ballooning hobby? At least in the US, which with the downing of another — whatever? — over Alaska, seems to have taken a “Sidewinders first, threat identification later” approach to anything that floats by. The latest incident involved an aircraft of unknown
Read MoreThe singer gave much of her halftime show performance atop seven suspended platforms. It was all in the name of protecting the grass.
Read MoreA quick glance at the “Pi Terminal” built by [Salim Benbouziyane], and you might think he pulled an old CRT monitor out of a video editing bay and gutted it. Which, of course, is the point. But what you’re actually looking at is a completely new construction, featuring a fully 3D printed enclosure, a clever
Read MoreA broken PlayStation controller would normally be a bummer, and if the issue is losing calibration that’s stored in a non-documented format, you might as well bin it. For [Al] of [Al’s blog], however, it’s a challenge, turning into a four-part story – so far. The first installment was published January 1st this year, and
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast wants Xfinity subscribers to pay up for Peacock. In a post on Twitter, the Comcast-owned NBCUniversal confirmed plans to stop offering free access to Peacock Premium to Xfinity subscribers on June 26th, 2023 (via Variety). Peacock Premium, which normally costs $4.99 per month, is an ad-supported plan
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Sony launches the Xperia 1 series of flagship phones every year, offering a high-end, premium-priced experience. 2022 saw the Japanese giant deliver perhaps its most compelling Xperia 1 device yet in the Xperia 1 IV. But what should we expect from the 2023 device? Here’s everything we know and
Read MoreThe RGBDeck mod just isn’t ready yet. | Image: Adam Honse / Reddit As cool as the Steam Deck looks with RGB lighting, you might not want to attempt to mod your device just yet. One Reddit user who tried the mod found that while adding the RGB LEDs doesn’t draw a significant amount of
Read MoreThere are a few options for people looking to see what brands and companies are showcasing in-between games.
Read MoreTiffany Hsu / New York Times: How a slowing digital ad market, Apple’s ATT changes, tech companies’ internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic — Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.
Read MoreThe singer gave much of her halftime show performance atop seven suspended platforms. It was all in the name of protecting the grass.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Inside Apple’s efforts to develop new financial services, which have suffered from slow progress and missed deadlines due to engineering and technical setbacks — Apple’s slate of new financial services — including “buy now, pay later” offerings, savings accounts and an iPhone subscription program — have hit delays.
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Opinion post by Calvin Wankhede After using Samsung’s Gear S3 smartwatch for nearly six consecutive years, I finally moved to the Galaxy Watch 4 sometime last year. From performance to app support, it was a big upgrade in every way — thanks largely to Samsung adopting Wear OS 3.
Read MoreIn the United States in 1939, television sets still had a long way to go before they pretty much sold themselves. Efforts to do just that are what led to RCA’s Lucite Phantom Telereceiver, which aimed to show people a new way to receive broadcast media. Created for the 1939 World’s Fair, the TRK-12 Lucite
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Sony launches the Xperia 1 series of flagship phones every year, offering a high-end, premium-priced experience. 2022 saw the Japanese giant deliver perhaps its most compelling Xperia 1 device yet in the Xperia 1 IV. But what should we expect from the 2023 device? Here’s everything we know and
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Sony launches the Xperia 1 series of flagship phones every year, offering a high-end, premium-priced experience. 2022 saw the Japanese giant deliver perhaps its most compelling Xperia 1 device yet in the Xperia 1 IV. But what should we expect from the 2023 device? Here’s everything we know and
Read MoreFirst part of the cypher used by Mary Stuart and Castelnau, showing the use of homophones, special characters and more. (Credit: Lasry et al., 2023) Communications by important people over the past thousands of years have been regularly encrypted, making the breaking of this encryption both an essential and also a fascinating historical field. One
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Jetsons had the right idea with a sweet mix of gee-whizz gadgetry and intelligent home automations that just worked. However, real life doesn’t quite work like that. As someone who has sunk years of my life into the smart home hobby, there are no two ways about it
Read MoreAfter almost 40 years since it debuted back in 1984, Apple’s Macintosh commercial could still be aired today.
Read MoreCool technology often comes at a cost, and it’s not always that this cost is justified. For instance, [Rainfay] tells us about how the the ArtNet protocol’s odd design choices are causing incompatibility with certain Ethernet switches. ArtNet is a protocol for lighting control over DMX-512 – simply put, it allows you to blink a
Read MoreSteve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: A look at “liquid” neural nets, which change their underlying algorithms based on observed inputs, making them more flexible than standard ML neural networks — “Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
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