It’s one thing to assemble your own circuits from scratch using off the shelf components. It’s quite another to build the components first, and then build the circuit. That’s the path [Joris Wegner] took with this video distortion effects box, dubbed PHOSPHOR. One might wonder why you’d want a box that makes a video stream
Read MoreApple’s most recent patent filing reveals plans to beef up Touch ID and bring it back to the iPhone in 2020 along with 5G connectivity, plus the most important updated to Apple’s new MacBooks. Two big reasons why the 2020 iPhone might be worth the wait – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSee how Google’s new 2019 phones compare with the Moto G7 and last year’s Pixel and OnePlus models. Pixel 3A vs. Pixel 3, Moto G7, OnePlus 6T: All specs compared – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA guide to the two hottest faux meat products Impossible Burger vs Beyond Meat Burger: Taste, ingredients and availability, compared – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKeep tabs on the rumors about Google’s upcoming marquee phones. Pixel 4 and 4 XL rumors: Release date, leak details, design, specs and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA hacker and a sex offender share what happened when they sought to trick the probation officers monitoring them. How Convicts Ordered to Stay Offline Try to Slip Their Digital Leashes Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreIf you only need to travel at around 25 mph around town or to get a short distance to work, an electric bicycle might just be the best thing you can ride. It’s cheap, quick, and fun, and sometimes a great way to get some exercise too. If you want to dial up the amount
Read MoreA song by Rockwell, “Somebody’s Watching Me” might be the anthem for the tin foil hat crowd. But a new paper reveals that it might be just as scary to have someone listening to you. Researchers have used common microphones to listen in on computer monitors. The demonstration includes analyzing audio to determine input from
Read MoreA great many robots exist in our modern world, and the vast majority of them are highly specialized machines. They do a job, and they do it well, but they don’t have much of a personality. [Guilherme Martins] was working on a fun project to build a robot arm that could create chocolate artworks, but
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Read MoreYou’ve perhaps noticed that [Jeremy Cook] is rather prolific on YouTube, regularly putting out videos on his latest and greatest creations. He wanted to add a head-mounted GoPro to his video production bag of tricks, but found it was a little trickier than expected to get the camera to point where he was actually looking.
Read MorePoland has officially challenged the European Union’s recently-approved controversial copyright directive, according to Reuters, saying that the legislation would bring unwanted censorship. The country filed its complaint yesterday with the the Court of Justice of the European Union. Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Konrad Szymanski said that the “system may result in adopting regulations that are
Read MoreThe EternalBlue hacking exploit, already used in the infamous WannaCry and NotPetya attacks, has now surfaced in the NSA’s own backyard, says The New York Times. Stolen NSA hacking tool now victimizing US cities, report says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreReinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning where the machine is scored on their performance (“evaluation function”). Over the course of a training session, behavior that improved final score is positively reinforced gradually building towards an optimal solution. [Dheera Venkatraman] thought it would be fun to use reinforcement learning for making a little robot
Read MoreEarlier this week, SpaceX successfully launched its first 60 StarLink satellites into orbit around the Earth. An amateur astronomer in the Netherlands caught sight of them orbiting Earth after deployment, and captured the scene on video. Astronomer Dr. Marco Langbroek noted on his blog that he calculated where the satellites would be orbiting, and waited
Read MoreIf you browse the mixers at a high-end grocery or spirits store these days you’re bound to find an assortment of tonic waters. My personal favorite is Fever Tree’s Elderflower tonic, Try it, it’s fantastic. Tonics can be great to help bring out the flavor of the spirit that you’re drinking, but they can also
Read MoreNobody beats our meat-cooker deals. The best grill sales for Memorial Day 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSince May 7th, the Baltimore’s city government has been dealing with a ransomware attack that has shut down everything from its email to the systems that allow residents to pay water bills, purchase homes, and other services. According to a report in The New York Times, the tool that has crippled the city is a
Read MoreSave, then sleep. The best Memorial Day mattress sales – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLast year, Amazon rolled a new announcements feature for Echo devices, and later expanded it to Alexa-compatible Sonos speakers. Now, the feature can be used across all of the devices that utilize Alexa. The feature essentially allows you to turn your Echo devices into an intercom system, and initially rolled out to the Echo, Echo
Read MoreRidley Scott’s landmark monster film from 40 years ago holds up, but its ship could use a new operating system. Alien and I both hatched in 1979. Now I'm watching the movie, finally – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAt first, we thought this robot was like a rabbit until we realized rabbits have a 300% bonus in the leg department. SALTO — a robot from [Justin Yim], [Eric Wang], and [Ronald Fearing] only has one leg but gets around quite well hopping from place to place. If you can’t picture it, the video
Read MoreSome of the world’s greatest artworks are known for their elaborate backstory or complex history, but not many are actively dangerous to those who own them. ‘The Persistence of Chaos’ might be an exception. Created by internet artist Guo O Dong, this piece of art is an ordinary laptop filled with six of the world’s
Read MoreFour decades after it burst from screens, we celebrate Ridley Scott’s peerless sci-fi horror hybrid. Alien is 40, and still terrifying. Shame about the sequels – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreEarlier this week, an altered video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi caught fire on Facebook, and despite being faked, the platform has so far declined to remove it. However, it has now chosen to notify users who attempt to share the clip that it is faked. “Once the video was fact checked as false, we
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