Sometimes you come across a purported scientific paper that makes you do a triple-check, just to be sure that you didn’t overlook something, as maybe the claims do make sense after all. Such is the case with a recent publication in the Langmuir journal by [Budlayan] and colleagues titled Droplet-Scale Conversion of Aluminum into Transparent Aluminum
Read MoreSometimes you come across a purported scientific paper that makes you do a triple-check, just to be sure that you didn’t overlook something, as maybe the claims do make sense after all. Such is the case with a recent publication in the Langmuir journal by [Budlayan] and colleagues titled Droplet-Scale Conversion of Aluminum into Transparent Aluminum
Read MoreSometimes you come across a purported scientific paper that makes you do a triple-check, just to be sure that you didn’t overlook something, as maybe the claims do make sense after all. Such is the case with a recent publication in the Langmuir journal by [Budlayan] and colleagues titled Droplet-Scale Conversion of Aluminum into Transparent Aluminum
Read MoreVirtual Reality in woodworking sounds like a recipe for disaster—or at least a few missing fingers. But [The Swedish Maker] decided to put this concept to the test, diving into a full woodworking project while wearing a Meta Quest 3. You can check out the full experiment here, but let’s break down the highs, lows,
Read MoreVirtual Reality in woodworking sounds like a recipe for disaster—or at least a few missing fingers. But [The Swedish Maker] decided to put this concept to the test, diving into a full woodworking project while wearing a Meta Quest 3. You can check out the full experiment here, but let’s break down the highs, lows,
Read More“Reddit Answers” uses generative AI to answer questions using what past Reddittors have posted. Announced in December, Reddit now plans to integrate it into their search results, reports TechCrunch, with Reddit’s CEO saying the idea has “incredible monetization potential.” And yet Reddit’s stock fell 14% this week. CNBC’s headline? “Reddit shares plunge after Google algorithm
Read More“Reddit Answers” uses generative AI to answer questions using what past Reddittors have posted. Announced in December, Reddit now plans to integrate it into their search results, reports TechCrunch, with Reddit’s CEO saying the idea has “incredible monetization potential.” And yet Reddit’s stock fell 14% this week. CNBC’s headline? “Reddit shares plunge after Google algorithm
Read More“Reddit Answers” uses generative AI to answer questions using what past Reddittors have posted. Announced in December, Reddit now plans to integrate it into their search results, reports TechCrunch, with Reddit’s CEO saying the idea has “incredible monetization potential.” And yet Reddit’s stock fell 14% this week. CNBC’s headline? “Reddit shares plunge after Google algorithm
Read More“Reddit Answers” uses generative AI to answer questions using what past Reddittors have posted. Announced in December, Reddit now plans to integrate it into their search results, reports TechCrunch, with Reddit’s CEO saying the idea has “incredible monetization potential.” And yet Reddit’s stock fell 14% this week. CNBC’s headline? “Reddit shares plunge after Google algorithm
Read More“Security researchers say the Chinese government-linked hacking group, Salt Typhoon, is continuing to compromise telecommunications providers,” reports TechCrunch, “despite the recent sanctions imposed by the U.S. government on the group.” TechRadar reports that the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor is “hitting not just American organizations, but also those from the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere around
Read MoreHackaday reports: Good news for everyone who cannot get enough from improbably shaped boats that get referred to as a bench: the current owner (NTI Group) of the copyright has announced that 3DBenchy has been released into the public domain. This comes not too long after Prusa’s Printables website had begun to purge all derived
Read MoreSFGate shares the latest data on America’s office-occupancy rates: According to Placer.ai’s January 2025 Office Index, office visits nationwide were 40.2% lower in January 2025 compared with pre-pandemic numbers from January 2019. But San Francisco is dragging down the average, with a staggering 51.8% decline in office visits since January 2019 — the weakest recovery
Read MoreCan the iPhone, AirPods, or the Apple Watch play a role in improving health? Apple says they want to find out. “In medical research, discoveries are often limited by the number of participants who can be recruited, the amount of data that can be captured, and the duration of a given study,” the company said
Read More“Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, is bored of chess,” the Washington Post wrote Friday: Carlsen has spent much of the past year appearing to dismiss the game he has mastered: It was no longer exciting to play, he told a podcast in March. In December, he withdrew from defending a world championship because
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian: Thousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie’s to cancel a sale of art created with artificial intelligence, claiming the technology behind the works is committing “mass theft”. The Augmented Intelligence auction has been described by Christie’s as the first AI-dedicated sale by a major
Read MoreLast June two NASA astronauts flew to the International Space Station on the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner. But they aren’t stranded there, and they weren’t abandoned, the astronauts reminded CNN this week in a rare space-to-earth interview: “That’s been the rhetoric. That’s been the narrative from day one: stranded, abandoned, stuck —
Read MoreI’m a type-two fun kind of guy — my friends know this, and most of my colleagues do at this point, too. That means I’m always looking for an activity that feels like a challenge. Whether that means riding a single-speed bike 100 miles to Washington, DC, or trying to cram another side quest into
Read MoreRemember Jeep’s new in-dash pop-up ads which reportedly appeared every time you stopped? “Since I’m a journalist, or at least close enough, I decided that I should at least get Stellantis/Jeep’s side of things,” writes car-culture site The Autopian: Would Stellantis do something so woefully misguided and annoying? I reached out to our Stellantis/Jeep contact
Read MorePerhaps you’ve seen the viral posts on X — people sharing selfies where part of their faces are obscured by hands or various objects. Then, the same selfie with the object removed as if by magic. Instead, you see the person’s full face, a pixel-perfect reproduction of how they look IRL. Or so it seems
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Spotify reportedly plans to introduce a Music Pro tier with better-quality audio, remixing tools, and more. Although pricing is not yet finalized, it could cost an additional $5.99 monthly on top of existing subscriptions. Spotify plans to launch the Music Pro tier sometime later this year. Spotify doesn’t
Read MoreYou know that feeling when something comes out and you know that you should love it? Like when your favorite author drops a new title out of nowhere, even if it’s not their typical genre, or your favorite football team signs a promising but injury-prone young player? On paper, you know that there’s a ton
Read MoreBoredom is something of a dying concept. Our phones, filled with games and videos and social feeds, allow us to fill every moment with something, whether weâre on a long flight or in line for 30 seconds waiting for coffee. But the silly and playful While Waiting is a good reminder that that can be
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A new leak suggests that Samsung could release One UI 8 to its devices sooner than anticipated. The Android 16 upgrade might arrive earlier since Google is targeting a Q2 release for its Pixel phones. This could help Samsung save face following the significant delay in its One UI
Read MorePlus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
Read MoreAmazon has long offered a “Download & transfer via USB” option for your purchases. That option was removed for the most recent generation of Kindles, and is going away for old models on February 26. Amazon may be trying to close a piracy loophole, as the AZW3 files the tool generated where vulnerable to DRM-removal
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