Handhelds are designed to be portable, but what if you need something smaller than OEM? The Steam Brick pulls basically everything off of a Steam Deck to make it as portable as possible. [crastinator-pro] found they rarely used the controller or screen on their Steam Deck, and the form factor was too bulky to conveniently
Read MoreHandhelds are designed to be portable, but what if you need something smaller than OEM? The Steam Brick pulls basically everything off of a Steam Deck to make it as portable as possible. [crastinator-pro] found they rarely used the controller or screen on their Steam Deck, and the form factor was too bulky to conveniently
Read MoreMacworld The holidays may have put a dent in your pocket, forcing you to participate in low-spend (or no-spend) January. But just because you’re limiting your spending, it doesn’t mean you have to deal with your broken laptop for another year. Just opt for this refurbished MacBook Pro deal instead of shopping brand-new. This 2017 model
Read MoreMacworld The holidays may have put a dent in your pocket, forcing you to participate in low-spend (or no-spend) January. But just because you’re limiting your spending, it doesn’t mean you have to deal with your broken laptop for another year. Just opt for this refurbished MacBook Pro deal instead of shopping brand-new. This 2017 model
Read MoreEvolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
Read MoreCredit: Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority Samsung has just launched the Galaxy S25 series, and you’d be forgiven for looking at these phones and thinking they were the Galaxy S24 series. Or even the S23 range. The company hasn’t made significant design changes to its flagship phones in a while. You could argue that this
Read MoreFriday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine). Gates remembers forming “a sort of splinter group” from the Boy Scouts when
Read MoreNot too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outposts, a satellite earth station for their comms system. Its most prominent feature is a radome, a huge golf-ball-like structure visible for miles, that protects a large parabolic antenna from the British weather. It makes sense not just for
Read MoreJust when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator post-processing script. This time, the GPL v3 licensed program has gained early support for “paint-on” textures. Fuzzyficator works as a plugin to OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, and PrusaSlicer. The process starts with an image that
Read MoreJust when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator post-processing script. This time, the GPL v3 licensed program has gained early support for “paint-on” textures. Fuzzyficator works as a plugin to OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, and PrusaSlicer. The process starts with an image that
Read MoreJust when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator post-processing script. This time, the GPL v3 licensed program has gained early support for “paint-on” textures. Fuzzyficator works as a plugin to OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, and PrusaSlicer. The process starts with an image that
Read MoreJust when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator post-processing script. This time, the GPL v3 licensed program has gained early support for “paint-on” textures. Fuzzyficator works as a plugin to OrcaSlicer, Bambu Studio, and PrusaSlicer. The process starts with an image that
Read MoreFounded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority “for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system,” reports USA Today. Unfortunately, “What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster,” The Minor Planet Center didn’t
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development. The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same
Read MoreZDNET’s senior editor sees an “overwhelmingly negative” response to Microsoft’s surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, “they made it a 30% price increase” — going from $10 a month to $13 a month — “and blamed
Read MoreZDNET’s senior editor sees an “overwhelmingly negative” response to Microsoft’s surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, “they made it a 30% price increase” — going from $10 a month to $13 a month — “and blamed
Read More2021: “Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup” 2025: Canoo “Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas” “Its production volumes paled in comparison to Canoo’s rate of cash burn, which was substantial, with net losses in 2023 totaling just over $300 million…” reports AutoWeek. “It was able to deliver small batches of vans to a
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I’ve had the Ulanzi MA26 on my Amazon wishlist for over a year and almost forgot about it until Black Friday 2024 rolled around. As I was scrolling through my wishlist for significant price drops, I saw that the tripod’s price had fallen from a silly overpriced €45.99
Read MoreSlashdot reader jenningsthecat writes: 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Labs has faced a storm of controversy and protest after releasing a security update which many users claim is the first step in moving towards an HP-style subscription model. Bambu Labs responded that there’s misinformation circulating online, adding “we acknowledge that our communication might have contributed to
Read MoreWhen Galaxy AI burst onto the scene with last year’s Galaxy S24 series, it felt novel and interesting enough to almost offset the fact that the phones hadn’t otherwise changed all that much from the previous year or the year before that. Teething issues aside, it felt like there could be an interesting future buried
Read MoreApple’s 2025 iPhone lineup could add a new dimension with the iPhone 17 Slim. Here’s what the rumor mill believes is on the way. A render of what the iPhone 17 Slim could look like The iPhone 17 generation is expected this September, as usual for Apple’s flagship device releases. However, the 2025 collection could
Read MoreCarPlay has come a long way since its release, and four years after install, the Boss BE10ACP remains an affordable gateway to integrating Apple technologies into your car. The Boss BE10ACP CarPlay Receiver head unit and the display. If you need to replace your car stereo, there are options on the market that provide support
Read MoreImage: Letibus Design and Icedrop Games At a glance, Lok Digital seems like another cute and clever word game, a perfect distraction to keep on your phone for idle moments. But look closer, and it’s clear something just isn’t right. Yes, it’s a game about creating words to fill out a puzzle board. Except those
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Late last month, researchers revealed a finding that’s likely to shock some people and confirm the low expectations of others: Renewable energy facilities throughout Central Europe use unencrypted radio signals to receive commands to feed or ditch power into or from the grid that serves some
Read MoreThe $150 RGB laptop stand can keep any laptop cool, and on a few Razer Blade 16 gaming laptops, it can even improve 1080p performance. Read the full story at The Verge.
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