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We found discounts on our favorite at-home essentials to help make spring cleaning a lot easier.
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Read MoreFor optical microscopes, light is everything. If you don’t have a good amount of light passing through or bouncing off your sample, you’ve got nothing for your eyeballs or a camera to pick up. To aid in this regard, [Halogenek] whipped up a nifty microscope lamp with some LEDs. The build uses a neat arch-shaped
Read MoreWith funding from NASA, researchers from Villanova University have obtained a never-before-seen view of the central engine at the heart of our galaxy. Space.com reports: The new map of this central region of the Milky Way, which took four years to assemble, reveals the relationship between magnetic fields at the heart of our galaxy and
Read MoreGoogle Play Store is a one-stop destination for apps & games on Android, but it doesn’t have a logout option. There could be times when you may want to use a different Google Play Store account to download apps & games on your device, but since the log-out option is not available? What can you
Read MoreResearch shows the soaring costs hint at widespread, unpriced risk as the global climate warms, with states like California, Florida and Louisiana hit hardest.
Read MoreThese days, unit conversions aren’t something we have to worry about so much. If you’re sitting at a computer, you can usually just tap away in your browser to get a quick conversion done, or you can ask your smartphone for an answer. [HackMakeMod] wanted a bespoke device for this, though, and built a tiny
Read MoreUnloved buildings turn to ruin, leading to a deluge of construction waste worldwide. Designer Thomas Heatherwick tells WIRED why cities need to prioritize human health and joy in architecture.
Read MoreThese days, unit conversions aren’t something we have to worry about so much. If you’re sitting at a computer, you can usually just tap away in your browser to get a quick conversion done, or you can ask your smartphone for an answer. [HackMakeMod] wanted a bespoke device for this, though, and built a tiny
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: America’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open, a long-awaited moment that helps pave the way for a succession of large wind farms. Danish wind energy developer Orsted and the utility Eversource built a 12-turbine wind farm called South Fork Wind 35 miles (56 kilometers) east
Read MoreDays before Reddit’s upcoming initial public offering (IPO), the company announced that the FTC has launched an inquiry into the company’s licensing of user data to AI companies. Reddit says that it’s “not surprised” by the FTC’s inquiry, given the novel nature of these agreements. Axios reports: Reddit says it received a letter on Thursday,
Read MoreWhen you think about hardware description languages, you probably think of Verilog or VHDL. There are others, of course, but those are the two elephants in the room. Do we need another one? [Veryl-lang] thinks so. The Veryl language is sort of Verilog meets Rust. What makes Veryl interesting is that it transpiles to normal
Read MoreAlex Koller reports via CNBC: Since the start of the year, more than 50,000 workers have been laid off from over 200 tech companies, according to tracking website Layoffs.fyi. It’s a continuation of the predominant theme of 2023, when more than 260,000 workers across nearly 1,200 tech companies lost their jobs. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and
Read MoreA record-breaking price cut on Apple’s M1 MacBook Air is in effect at Best Buy this weekend. Pick one up for $649.99 while supplies last. Grab the lowest price on record for Apple’s MacBook Air. Save $350 off Apple’s original MSRP on the standard M1 MacBook Air at Best Buy this weekend. Grab the $649.99
Read MoreA record-breaking price cut on Apple’s M1 MacBook Air is in effect at Best Buy this weekend. Pick one up for $649.99 while supplies last. Grab the lowest price on record for Apple’s MacBook Air. Save $350 off Apple’s original MSRP on the standard M1 MacBook Air at Best Buy this weekend. Grab the $649.99
Read MoreA record-breaking price cut on Apple’s M1 MacBook Air is in effect at Best Buy this weekend. Pick one up for $649.99 while supplies last. Grab the lowest price on record for Apple’s MacBook Air. Save $350 off Apple’s original MSRP on the standard M1 MacBook Air at Best Buy this weekend. Grab the $649.99
Read MoreThe city council of Minneapolis on Thursday voted 10-3 to allow rideshare drivers to be paid the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour, overriding the mayor’s veto of the bill. As a result, Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in the city. From a report: Lyft said in a statement the bill
Read MoreCath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images An unusually fast process. A classified briefing. Phone lines clogged with teenagers “in near tears.” The bill, meant to force the sale of TikTok, passed by a landslide. Continue reading…
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: McDonald’s restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day. The outages started overnight and are impacting restaurants globally, including those in the USA, Japan, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, New Zealand, and
Read MoreAccording to Bloomberg, Apple has acquired Canada-based AI startup DarwinAI for an undisclosed sum. Macworld reports: Apple has reportedly folded the DarwinAI staff into its own AI team, including DarwinAI co-founder Alexander Wong, an AI researcher at the University of Waterloo who “has published over 600 refereed journal and conference papers, as well as patents,
Read MoreImage: Playstack I’m sorry, there’s simply no escape. The addictive magic roguelike poker game Balatro, which grossed $1M in eight hours, sold 500,000 copies in 10 days, and has now been played for 1,742 years, is now coming to iPhone and Android too. That’s the word directly from the game’s anonymous solo developer LocalThunk and
Read MoreWe love [Aaed Musa]’s TOPS (Traverser of Planar Surfaces) which is a robot dog with custom-made actuators. The DIY is very strong with this project, and the 3D-printed parts alone took a whopping three weeks to print! There’s additional detail on the electronics and design of TOPS in the build log of the project’s Hackaday.io
Read MoreThe platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.
Read MoreIn a blog post Thursday, Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners have experienced after the sweeping changes that Broadcom has instituted since it acquired the company nearly four months ago. “Of course, we recognize that this level of change has understandably created some unease among our customers and
Read MoreDespite a flood of bad news about mechanical mishaps on commercial airliners, data from regulators shows that jumbo jets aren’t all suddenly falling apart.
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a legal complaint against two companies based in Cyprus on Wednesday that it claims are behind a wave of malicious pop-ups that trick people into downloading a fake piece of antivirus software that generated tens of millions of dollars for its operators, according to court records. From a report:
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