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Trump Says He’d Oppose CBDCs, Pardon Ulbricht, and Create a ‘Strategic National Bitcoin Stockpile’

Speaking at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a number of cryptocurrency-related pledges. In a speech which lasted for over an hour, the 78-year-old former president also criticized his political opponents, touching on topics like inflation, immigration, and his promise to “drill, baby, drill.” But he also made several announcements

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Fracking for Heat: A New Source of Clean Energy?

Southern California Edison — one of America’s largest power companies — will buy power from 7-year-old fracking startup Fervo, reports the Washington Post. “But instead of oil and gas, Fervo is hunting heat, a more abundant resource that neither pollutes the air nor contributes to global warming.” The heat will fuel a new type of

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Fracking for Heat: A New Source of Clean Energy?

Southern California Edison — one of America’s largest power companies — will buy power from 7-year-old fracking startup Fervo, reports the Washington Post. “But instead of oil and gas, Fervo is hunting heat, a more abundant resource that neither pollutes the air nor contributes to global warming.” The heat will fuel a new type of

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How to Use Meta AI ‘Imagine Me’ Feature

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram have an intelligent assistant built on Llama 3.1, Meta AI. It’s a great AI assistant that can be accessed from these three apps. Like every other AI tool, Meta AI can answer your questions you might have, help you with your writing, give you advice, and generate images for you. Meta

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Which Google Pixel 9 Pro color is your favorite?

The Google Pixel 9 series is fast approaching. Even though we’re still several days away from the company’s August 13 launch date, there’s not much about the smartphones we don’t know. While specs are critical, many choose their smartphones based on the colors offered. In our exclusive report in May, we confirmed that the Pixel

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George Washington Gets Cleaned Up With a Laser

Now, we wouldn’t necessarily call ourselves connoisseurs of fine art here at Hackaday. But we do enjoy watching [Julian Baumgartner]’s YouTube channel, where he documents the projects that he takes on as a professional conservationists. Folks send in their dirty or damaged pieces, [Julian] works his magic, and the end result often looks like a

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NASA Fires Lasers At the ISS

joshuark shares a report from The Verge: NASA researchers have successfully tested laser communications in space by streaming 4K video footage originating from an airplane in the sky to the International Space Station and back. The feat demonstrates that the space agency could provide live coverage of a Moon landing during the Artemis missions and

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Vintage Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Poqet PC

It sometimes seems as though computing power in your pocket is a relatively new phenomenon, but in fact there have been ultraportable computers since the 8-bit era. They started to become useful around the end of the 1980s though as enterprising manufacturers started cramming full-fat PC XTs into pocket form factors. Of these the one

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Vintage Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Poqet PC

It sometimes seems as though computing power in your pocket is a relatively new phenomenon, but in fact there have been ultraportable computers since the 8-bit era. They started to become useful around the end of the 1980s though as enterprising manufacturers started cramming full-fat PC XTs into pocket form factors. Of these the one

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