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How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country’s high maternal mortality rates (Sanket Jain/MIT Technology Review)

Sanket Jain / MIT Technology Review: How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country’s high maternal mortality rates — Female volunteers are using messages, statuses, and hyperlocal groups to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country’s high maternal mortality rate.

The Effect of Filament Color on Print Strength and More

What is an FDM filament coloring’s purpose but to be an aesthetic choice? As it turns out, the additives that create these changes in coloring and transparency also affect the base properties of the polymer, whether it’s PLA, PETG, or another material. This is where a recent video by [CNC Kitchen] is rather illustrative, using

3 Ways to DIY Custom CNC Dust Covers

Home shop machinists know dust shields are important for keeping swarf out of expensive linear rails and ball screws. [Petteri Aimonen] demonstrates three inexpensive ways to DIY some bellows-style dust covers. Such things can of course be purchased, but they’re priced at a premium and not always available in the size one needs. A bellows-style

JPMorgan: 53% of institutional traders predict AI will be the most influential technology for trading in the next three years; 72% have no plans to trade crypto (Greg Ritchie/Bloomberg)

Greg Ritchie / Bloomberg: JPMorgan: 53% of institutional traders predict AI will be the most influential technology for trading in the next three years; 72% have no plans to trade crypto — Traders are betting artificial intelligence and machine learning will have the biggest impact on financial markets in the coming years.

A look at “de-influencers”, a rising cohort of TikTok users criticizing viral products and promoting thoughtful shopping; #deinfluencing videos passed 68M views (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A look at “de-influencers”, a rising cohort of TikTok users criticizing viral products and promoting thoughtful shopping; #deinfluencing videos passed 68M views — TikTok users are speaking critically about viral products and advocating for thoughtful shopping habits.

Reliving a Bitmapped Past With a Veritable Hoard of Bitmap Fonts

The fonts seen with old computer systems such as those from Apple and Commodore, as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1 and older, form an integral part of our interaction with these systems. These days such bitmap fonts are a rarity, with scalable vector-based fonts having taken their place on modern-day systems. This unfortunately also means

MCM/70 Replica Embodies Proud Canadian Heritage

When a vintage computer is all but unobtanium, software emulation is often all that remains. Unless you are [Michael Gardi], who saw an opportunity to reproduce Canada’s home-grown MCM/70 microcomputer using a combination of software emulation and modern hardware. Short of building a brand new MCM/70 from the original schematics, this faithful facsimile of the

A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania licenses, and questions about staff ties to scammers (Donal Griffin/Bloomberg)

Donal Griffin / Bloomberg: A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania licenses, and questions about staff ties to scammers — In the space of just five years, a little-known company on the outskirts of London has grown into a payments-industry powerhouse …

The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included

A computing platform is never really dead unless people stop developing new software for it. By that measure, the Commodore 64 is alive and well: new games, demos, and utilities are still being released on a regular basis. Getting those new programs onto an old computer was always a bit of a hassle though, requiring

Spotify’s founder helped develop an AI-powered body health scanner

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (left) and Neko Health co-founder Hjalmar Nilsonne (right). | Image: Neko Health Spotify founder Daniel Ek is getting into the healthcare industry. A post shared on LinkedIn names Ek as the co-founder of a startup, called Neko Health, which specializes in providing body scans powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as reported

Financial influencers are pumping out videos promoting dubious ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes, such as selling chatbot-generated tutorials on sites like Udemy (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: Financial influencers are pumping out videos promoting dubious ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes, such as selling chatbot-generated tutorials on sites like Udemy — The world of financial influencers promise viewers they can use ChatGPT to make big bucks with no effort.

Tesla bumps up Model Y price after EV tax credit adjustment

The Model Y just got more expensive. | Image: Getty Images Tesla raised the price of its Model Y electric vehicle (EV) just hours after the US Treasury Department adjusted its EV tax credit rules, as first reported by Bloomberg. While the Tesla Model Y Long Range now costs $1,500 more at $54,990, the Model

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says open-source developers should be exempt from the EU’s AI Act; the EU parliament is set to vote on a draft in the coming months (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says open-source developers should be exempt from the EU’s AI Act; the EU parliament is set to vote on a draft in the coming months — GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says that open source developers should be made exempt from the European Union’s (EU) …

Reliving a Bitmapped Past With a Veritable Hoard of Bitmap Fonts

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says open-source developers should be exempt from the EU’s AI Act; the EU parliament is set to vote on a draft in the coming months (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included

The New York AG fines a stalkerware developer $410K and forces him to alert his customers’ victims that they are being secretly monitored via one of his apps (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The New York AG fines a stalkerware developer $410K and forces him to alert his customers’ victims that they are being secretly monitored via one of his apps — The New York attorney general’s office has announced a $410,000 fine for a stalkerware developer who used 16 companies to promote surveillance

Spotify’s founder helped develop an AI-powered body health scanner

A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania licenses, and questions about staff ties to scammers (Donal Griffin/Bloomberg)

Fulcrum Foils Finger Fatigue

It turns out that typing all day just might be bad for your hands and fingers. Repetitive Strain Injury, RSI, was a real problem for [David Schiller], particularly when coding. So, naturally, he started designing his own keyboard. And bless him, he’s shared the whole project on GitHub. The solution is Fulcrum, a chording keyboard

Sources: the US considers sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US considers sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country — Beijing’s exports of video recorders to Iran more than doubled in 2022 as protests swept the country

The Galaxy S23 seems boring, but it’s exactly what we wanted from Samsung

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by C. Scott Brown Ten years ago, a new smartphone release was incredibly exciting. Technology moved so fast back then that every new smartphone seemed to come with a feature we had never seen before. Today, though, phone launches are increasingly, well, boring with each passing year.

You should spring-clean your smart home

As convenient as a smart home can be, it takes some work to set one up. To the surprise of some, a smart home also requires maintenance to keep it running smoothly — especially if you want to stay on the cutting edge like us tech journalists. It’s really worth doing an occasional “spring cleaning”

Fulcrum Foils Finger Fatigue

Sources: the US is weighing sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US is weighing sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country — Beijing’s exports of video recorders to Iran more than doubled in 2022 as protests swept the country

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