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Read MoreApple has been advertising its watch’s ability to detect atrial fibrillation. The reality doesn’t quite live up to the promise. The Watch Is Smart, but It Can’t Replace Your Doctor Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThis minivan excels at hauling nearly any combination of passengers or parcels, plus it offers loads of tech. Don't buy another crossover, get a Honda Odyssey instead – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreAditya Hadi Pratama / Tech in Asia: Indonesian education platform Ruangguru, which claims to serve 15M+ students and 300K+ teachers, raises $150M Series C led by General Atlantic and GGV Capital — Ruangguru, an education technology startup headquartered in Jakarta, has secured US$150 million in its series C funding. Indonesian education platform Ruangguru, which claims
Read MoreUSB-C has its special Power Delivery standard, and is capable of delivering plenty of juice to attached hardware. This has led many to modify their TS-100 soldering irons to accept the connector. [Jan Henrik] is the latest, though he’s taken rather a different tack than you might expect. [Jan] didn’t want to modify the original
Read Moreeverything you need to develop healthy habits that will last all the way through 2020 and beyond. New Year, New You – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRight now, there are more than 700,000 active podcasts and more than 29 million podcast episodes, as illustrated by Music Oomph. So it’s no wonder 2019 feels like ‘the year’ for podcasts as a Twitter user perfectly illustrated in a meme: Starting a podcast in 2019 pic.twitter.com/Lrx39rXNSp — Mike Camerlengo (@MCamerlengo) October 19, 2019 As thousands of podcasts are
Read MoreWe sure wish we’d had a teacher like [Volos Projects]. He built this beautiful circuit sculpture to teach his students how to count in binary and convert it to decimal and hexadecimal. If you don’t already know binary, you get to learn it on DIP switches and a dead-bugged ATMega328 in the video after the
Read More[Steven Merrifield] built his own Scalar Network Analyzer and it’s a beauty! [Steve]’s SNA has a digital pinout matching a Raspberry Pi, but any GPIO could be used to operate the device and retrieve the data from the ADC. The design is based around a few tried and true chips from Analog Devices. He’s taken
Read MoreHumans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000 genes in our genome, the set of genetic information in an organism. But do we really need every gene we have? What if we lost three or four? What if we lost 3,000 or 4,000? Could we still function? Humans have variation in their genomes, but the
Read MoreAdam Yosilewitz / Legendary Live Streaming: State of Live Streaming in 2019: Fortnite player Tfue was the most popular with 87M viewership hours, League of Legends retook the top title from Fortnite, more — It’s the holiday season, so our gift to you is our State of the Stream report created in partnership with Arsenal.gg.
Read MoreIf you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don’t know how to do in artificial intelligence. “But my cat does nothing all day except sleep, eat and wash herself,” you may think. And yet your cat knows how
Read MoreThe race for chemical engineering is quite literally on. Every year, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) brings together hundreds of university students to face-off to design the fastest car using techniques they’ve learned from chemical engineering courses. The Chem-E-Car competition races cars which are only powered by chemical reactions. The goal is to
Read MoreEllen Nakashima / Washington Post: Sources: building on tactics deployed during 2018 midterms, US Cyber Command is exploring additional strategies to counter Russian 2020 election interference — Military cyber officials are developing information warfare tactics that could be deployed against senior Russian officials … Sources: building on tactics deployed during 2018 midterms, US Cyber Command
Read MoreLuke Winkie / OneZero: Discord channels used to sell stolen PayPal accounts, credit and debit card numbers, and Amazon gift cards, thrive despite account bans, untrustworthy sellers — Cracked PayPal accounts and stolen debit card numbers are sold in the open — A user by the name of Victoria sends me her menu through a
Read More[Thomas Sanladerer] has a filament-based 3D printer and a resin one. Can the two types of raw material combine to make something better? [Thomas] did some experiments using some magnets to suspend the parts and a hot air soldering gun to heat things up. The trick turns out to be cutting the resin with alcohol.
Read MoreA very special type of solar eclipse is happening tonight, but it will be on the other side of the world from the US, visible in the morning in Saudi Arabia, India, and Malaysia. Fortunately it will be livestreamed, so you can catch it from home at around 10:30 EST tonight. Read more… Watch an
Read MoreThe Call of Duty: Modern Warfare team is spreading some holiday cheer this season with a limited time snowball fight mode. In the game’s latest update, Infinity Ward and Activision are rolling out a new gunfight mode, cleverly titled “Snowfight,” that lets players trade in their guns for snowballs. From now until 1pm ET on
Read MoreCommentary: The Lady Bird director crafts the definitive version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale. Greta Gerwig's Little Women gives us the ending the book deserved – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreChuck Peddle, the patriarch of the 6502 microprocessor, died recently. Most people don’t know the effect that he and his team of engineers had on their lives. We often take the world of microprocessor for granted as a commonplace component in computation device, yet there was a time when there were just processors, and they
Read MoreYou know, if such a world record actually exists. Jeep Grand Cherokee tuned by Hennessey claims World's Fastest Christmas Tree record – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreOne of the brightest stars in the sky makes up Orion’s shoulder and also looks to be on the verge of going supernova sometime between today and 100,000 years from today. Betelgeuse star acting like it's about to explode, even if the odds say it isn't – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe song from Oxventurers Guild raises money for a nonprofit focused on mental health. Dungeons & Dragons game masters score a tribute song – CNET Source: CNet
Read More[Robson Couto] started to get interested in musical projects and as a side effect created downloadable code with simple notation for a good variety of themes, songs, and melodies. They are all for the Arduino and use only the built-in tone() function, but don’t let that distract you. If you look past that, you’ll see
Read MoreHBO is kicking off 2020 with new seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm, The New Pope, and Real Time with Bill Maher. It’s also bringing a number of popular films to the platform including 2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Read more… What's Coming and Going From HBO in January 2020
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