There was an all-too-brief period in history where typewriters went from clunky, purely mechanical beasts to streamlined, portable electromechanical devices. But when the 80s came around and the PC revolution started, the typewriting was on the wall for these machines, and by the 90s everyone had a PC, a printer, and Microsoft Word. And thus
Read MoreIf you’ve been shopping for smart displays lately, you’ve probably seen Amazon’s Echo Show 15, and both lusted after it and wondered where you could justify putting it in a home. I recently got my hands on one and after a bit of testing, it seems like the best answer to that is the kitchen
Read MoreHow about the freedom of making money and spending it on things that are not answerable to anybody? One of the best feelings imaginable. Isn’t it? It is a great idea to earn money online and make the most of your free time. You can set your working hours at your convenience, be it morning,
Read MoreThe Atari 2600 was an extremely popular yet very simple game console back in the 1970s. They sold, apparently, over 30 million of them, and, of course, these things broke. We’d get calls from friends and — remember, back then normal people weren’t computer savvy — nine times out of ten, we’d ask them to
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by Robert Triggs $60 a month or $720 a year. That’s roughly how much it costs to subscribe to the big five TV streaming services and listen to music without ads on Spotify. And that’s just at the basic level; if you’re in family plan territory, it’s
Read MoreJim Wyss / Bloomberg: Two years after the Bahamas launched the world’s first CBDC, the Sand Dollar’s adoption has been sluggish as FTX’s demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism — Before FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the Bahamas synonymous with the crypto crash, the country was known as a pioneer of digital fiat.
Read MoreAdd some color to your life, find accent lighting to match your mood, and transform the feel of your home with these decorative devices.
Read MoreIn his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers—strange entities that mimic the primes.
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google recently started rolling out spatial audio support to its latest Pixel phones and Pixel Buds Pro. The feature aims to replicate on headphones a similar surround experience to the one you get from strategically placing multiple speakers around you. While spatial audio is nothing new, it’s still
Read MoreShrug off your anxiety with these power-saving tips to extend the juice of your iPhone or Android phone.
Read MoreIn 2023, people will remember how to think for themselves—and Big Tech will help.
Read MoreWhen most of us think of glove controllers, the first which comes to mind is Nintendo’s PowerGlove, which promised much more than it delivered. But the idea persists, and from time to time we see them here at Hackaday. [Gord Payne] has one with an elegant sensor solution, it detects finger movement using a light
Read MoreEmily Sohn / Nature: Researchers detail reproducibility issues in health care AI; a 2021 review found health-related ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures — Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar
Read MoreThe Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. You can see a video of the project below. One thing that makes it a bit odd compared to other Altair clones we’ve seen is that the emulator runs in a
Read MoreBilly Perrigo / TIME: A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more — Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built.
Read More[David Johnson-Davies] has a lofty goal of building a small device to give to younger hackers on a semi-yearly basis. So this last year, he designed and created The Number Maze Game, a small handheld logic puzzle maze. It’s based on several 4-digit seven-segment displays controlled by an AVR128DA32. Navigation is just a few push
Read MoreFinancial Times: TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms expect age verification measures in the UK’s Online Safety Bill to reduce user numbers, hitting ad revenue — UK’s Online Safety Bill requires stronger age verification measures for platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat
Read MoreCoco Feng / South China Morning Post: China’s central bank says Ant Group and 13 other firms “have basically completed business rectification” under financial regulators’ guidance and supervision — Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group and 13 other platform companies “have basically completed business rectification” …
Read MoreThere’s an old series of jokes that starts with: “How do you put an elephant in a refrigerator?” The answer is to open the door, put the elephant inside, and close the door. Most people don’t get that because it is too simple, and simple is the approach Georgia Tech researchers have taken when faced
Read MoreJenny Gross / New York Times: How Finland, ranked first of 41 European countries in a media literacy survey, teaches students to spot misinformation on social media, starting in preschool — The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success.
Read MoreA mobile interface is a nice touch Anybody who has ever seen a video wall (and who hasn’t?) will be familiar with the idea of making large-scale illuminated images from individual coloured lights. But how many of us have gone the extra mile and fitted such a display in our own homes? [vcch] has done
Read MoreWall Street Journal: SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the US worth ~$200B since 2020, as the US realizes that chips are now as central to modern economies as oil — Recent shortages and fears of China’s ambitions to dominate the industry have led to a frenetic effort to rev up U.S. production
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation will be provided publicly — The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …
Read MoreImage: Nova These may look like your typical pair of earrings outfitted with — rather large — pearls, but they’re more than just jewelry: they actually double as ultra-discrete earbuds (via Gizmodo). The clip-on or stud H1 Audio Earrings from Nova Audio feature two speakers behind both pearls (which are real, by the way) that
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