Are you someone who appreciates the subtle difference between two similar shades of red? Do you anxiously await the announcement of Pantone’s color of the year? Are you constantly making mental plans to redo various rooms in your home, despite not actually having the time, money or energy to do it? If so, you’ll… Read
Read MoreAs children, we were told not to stare (or even look directly at) the sun because it could hurt our eyes. Sure, that makes sense, but it also adds to the mystery of the sun. We know it’s bright, but what exactly does it look like? Thanks to NASA, you can wonder no more, because
Read MoreFor the past few years, we’ve been told that loneliness is a public health crisis, as damaging as smoking 15 cigarettes each day. The messaging is that we’re people—people who need people—and spending too much time by ourselves is a major problem. Oh, but at the same time, apparently we’re all introverts now, and …
Read MoreArtist(s) unknown, Oakland, CA | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Artists have turned boarded-up businesses into powerful Black Lives Matter art Continue reading… 33 powerful Black Lives Matter murals Source: New feed
Read MoreNaipo Warmer and Cooler Seat Cover | $25 | Amazon | Use code 2S2IE4EJ Read more… Be Comfortable in the Car and in the Office With a Seat Warmer and Cooler Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreTLDR: Foreceipt Receipt Tracker eliminates the need for paper receipts, handling all your expense report and tax-filing receipt work automatically. The world is moving away from paper receipts. And while that’s good news, the bad news is that that transition isn’t happening fast enough. We already know 90 percent of those inconvenient printed receipts don’t
Read MoreOnePlus returns to its super affordable roots. OnePlus Nord preorders have already begun. Here are the features it needs (and doesn't need) – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMichael Flarup / Apply Pixels: With macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple seems to have lifted a ban on fun, allowing for an expressiveness in visual design that we haven’t seen from it in almost a decade — It’s finally here. The thing I have been advocating for through my work, writing, videos and talks for
Read MoreMicrosoft is closing almost all its stores, so I wanted to see what they look like now. And to wonder why Microsoft did it. I went to a Microsoft Store and all I saw was Apple laughing Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreTLDR: These two VPN deals will assure your 4th of July — not to mention the coming year are completely safe and secure online. Is there anything more obvious than writing a post about some huge VPN deals on July 4th and drawing the line about independence? Independence from online terrorists? Independence from governmental oversight?
Read MoreApple’s new iPhone SE is $300 cheaper than the baseline iPhone 11. Here’s exactly what you get by spending almost double. iPhone SE vs. iPhone 11: The features and upgrades you get from spending an extra 0 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFor moving about in the real world, robots can crawl along the ground or take to the sky. Both options have disadvantages, with obstacles being a problem on the ground and flying being very energy intensive. What we don’t often see are robots that move along aerial cables, which can offer the best of both
Read MoreCommentary: Today’s services are primed to help you figure out where you come from. How technology unlocked my family tree and changed my understanding of myself – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreState regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto insurance customers. We tested whether Allstate’s personalized pricing algorithm treated customers differently based on non-risk factors by analyzing rare customer-level data we found in documents
Read More3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many creative 3D designs here on Hackaday and [jegatheesan.soundarapandian’s] Baby MIT Cheetah Robot is no exception. You’ve undoubtedly seen MIT’s cheetah robot. Well, [jegatheesan’s] hack takes a
Read MoreWill Oremus / OneZero : A look at some radical proposals for creating better social networks, from establishing sites as nonprofits to restrictions on data collection — An offhand tweet sparked an outpouring of ideas to fix what’s broken about Facebook and Twitter — Welcome back to Pattern Matching … A look at some radical proposals
Read MoreGreg Thomson / Decrypt: Voice, a blockchain-based social media site on EOS that rewards users with tokens for posting “quality content”, is now open for the public to browse — After months of delays, and a $150 million cash injection, the EOS-based Voice platform is now open for viewing. — EOS — In brief: Voice,
Read MoreSatoru Iwata is perhaps best remembered for leading Nintendo through the development of the DS and Wii, two wildly successful systems which undeniably helped bring gaming to a wider and more mainstream audience. But decades before becoming the company’s President in 2002, he got his start in the industry as a developer working on many
Read MoreManuel Vonau / Android Police: Indian ISPs start restoring access to DuckDuckGo after blocking the service via their DNS servers starting July 1; it is unclear why the service was blocked — Following the Indian ban of almost 60 Chinese apps including TikTok and Weibo, many people living in the country now report … Indian
Read MoreSankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: India’s TikTok ban resulted in a surge in popularity for Indian apps like Roposo, Mitron, and Chingari; Roposo says it has added 22M users in 48 hours — NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian tech and entertainment firms are looking to capitalise on sudden opportunities arising from a government ban … India's
Read MoreNo doubt that every hacker has already heard of Digi-Key, the electronic component distributor that makes it just as possible to order one of something as it is to order a thousand of it. As an essential business, Digi-Key has been open during the duration of the lockdown since they support critical manufacturing services for
Read MorePei Li / Reuters: Tencent launches US game studio LightSpeed LA, to create AAA titles and increase overseas share of its total games revenue, which accounted for 23% in Q4 2019 — HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest social media and video game company, launched a new California-based studio this week … Tencent
Read MoreHardware hackers love the Nokia 5110 LCD. Or at least, they love the clones of it. You can pick up one of these panels for a couple bucks wherever electronic bits and bobs are sold, and integrating it into your project is a snap thanks to all the code and documentation floating around out there.
Read MoreRocket Lab’s 13th mission ended in failure on Saturday, after the company’s rocket experienced some kind of problem after launching to space. As a result, Rocket Lab lost its rocket, as well as all the satellites it carried on board. The company’s Electron rocket successfully took off at 5:19PM ET from Rocket Lab’s primary launch
Read MoreNitasha Tiku / Washington Post: Ifeoma Ozoma, Aerica Shimizu Banks, and five other former Pinterest employees share examples of Pinterest’s failure in addressing racial discrimination and bias — Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks claim they were underpaid, faced racist comments, and were subject to retaliation for raising complaints. Ifeoma Ozoma, Aerica Shimizu Banks, and
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