There’s no doubt that the 7-segment display is a gold standard for displaying lighted digits. But what about a throwback to an older system of displaying numbers — Cistercian? With thirty-one 0805 LEDs, [Josue Alejandro] made a simple module displaying a single Cistercian digit (any from 0-9999). The first iteration used castellated edges and required
Read MoreAndrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close — New $899 and $999 GPUs maintain the status quo in the Nvidia-AMD rivalry. — Nvidia’s RTX 4080
Read MoreThe iPhone 14’s Crash Detection feature helped a man find his wife after he was notified about a car accident she was in.
Read MoreReports also claim that the US has filed criminal charges against. | Photo: Getty Images Just over one month after the crypto exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy, Ryan Pinder, the Attorney General of the Bahamas, announced the arrest of its founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). According to a notice, the arrest came after
Read MoreApple TV Plus series “Severance” and “Black Bird” have both received multiple nominations for the 80th Golden Globe Awards.
Read MoreThe Avatar-themed concept car has working scales and illuminated wheels that drive sideways. | Photo by Daniel Golson for The Verge Remember Mercedes’ Avatar-themed concept car with working scales? With James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water hitting theaters, the company let us drive this truly unique-looking EV. It wasn’t easy. Continue reading…
Read MorePokémon Scarlet and Violet are here, and there’s a few steps you can take to increase performance on the Nintendo Switch.
Read MoreApple has released a new version of its AirTag firmware ahead of an imminent iOS 16.2 release.
Read MoreApple has been slammed by Canada after it chose to limit AirDrop use to just ten minutes to prevent Chinese iPhone owners from easily protesting.
Read MoreAn Iowa man used three different AirTags to stalk a woman that he claimed he was married to but never was — he’s now in jail awaiting a hearing.
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based game developer Playtika lays off about 15% of its staff, or 600+ workers, and removes three titles from the pipeline; its stock is down ~53% YTD — Playtika, the Israeli tech company that made its name through a series of wildly successful online gambling and gaming titles …
Read MoreSeptember is now an unofficial free iPhone bonanza. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A new report from CIRP says that only about 24 percent of recent iPhones purchased in the US were sold directly by Apple. Instead, the most popular way to buy a new iPhone was through a wireless carrier,
Read MoreGetting a PlayStation 5 no longer has to be an uphill battle. Thanks to the increased availability of Sony’s next-gen console, there are multiple options for bringing home a PS5. While availability is sometimes limited to bundles that come packaged with a game, this is still a great opportunity to bring home a console relatively
Read MoreWould you pay for Twitter? | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk’s $8-per-month Twitter Blue subscription with verification is officially available, and you’ll need a verified phone number to sign up. In a thread on Twitter, the platform notes that Blue will cost $11 per month if you sign up on iOS
Read MoreRon Miller / TechCrunch: Boston-based cybersecurity startup Snyk raised $196.5M at a $7.4B valuation, down 12% from its round in September 2021, bringing its total raised to $1.075B — Snyk hasn’t been afraid to take money over the years, scoring an ever larger investment haul with each passing round …
Read MoreHow many times have you given the same old gifts? The Amazon gift card? Everyone loves those, but they are expected. Or do you give a shirt and tie to dad every year? When I was a teenager, I gave my dad a shirt that he totally loved. But I saw that shirt sitting in
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Peacock is often listed among free streaming services. Heck, we list it in our own such list here at Android Authority. But that’s not the full story. Peacock has paid tiers, and they’re not just ad-free versions of the same service. So, is Peacock free? Read on for a
Read MoreNorthwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class delivered a bumper crop of ESP-32 projects this year. The student teams recorded their progress on hackaday.io with project descriptions, logs, BOMs, diagrams, photos, and videos to share with other makers. While all utilized the web connection that the ESP32 offers some teams chose to use ESP32 Cams to incorporate
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Some Uber employee records, corporate reports, and IT information is leaked online; Uber says it thinks the data is related to a breach of a third-party vendor — Uber has suffered a new data breach after a threat actor leaked employee email addresses, corporate reports …
Read MoreSkullcandy’s Jib True may not be the best wireless earbuds you can buy, but they’re hard to beat as a stocking stuffer. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Once December gets going, it starts to feel like time quickly accelerates, and before you know it, your remaining holiday gift shopping starts bumping up
Read MoreThe need for community is hardwired into the human psyche. It’s why most people enjoy spending time with others. Being part of a community fosters connections, builds a sense of belonging, and encourages customer loyalty. Is it any wonder, then, that so many companies try to build communities around their brands? Organizations that are successful
Read MoreI wonder how many hours of entertainment I’ve gotten from Content forged on this Throne. | Image: dril Dril, the account behind a frankly unbelievable number of viral tweets, is packaging his magnificent archive into a book and selling it for those of us who want to show off just how Online we are. According
Read MoreJacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Switzerland-based Nillion, which aims to offer a decentralized network for securing storage and data computation, raised a $20M+ seed led by Distributed Global — Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million …
Read MoreLaura Forman / Wall Street Journal: Similarweb: desktop visits to Twitter’s ad manager fell ~74% YoY in Oct. and 85% in Nov., the largest drop since Musk’s takeover; the trend continues in Dec. — Elon Musk is leading with narrative at Twitter. Don’t lose sight of the dollars and sense. — Elon Musk’s Unconventional Management
Read MoreLyft drivers can get cash for driving an EV. Lyft, which has said it wants “100 percent” of the vehicles operating on its platform to be electric by 2030, is offering a new slate of incentives to drivers to get them to ditch their polluting, gas-powered vehicles for ones with zero tailpipe emissions. Starting today,
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