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Building Your Own 4G LTE Base Station

We’ve seen quite a few DIY 2G networks over the years, but the 4G field has been relatively barren. Turns out, there’s an open source suite called srsRAN that lets you use an SDR for setting up an LTE network, and recently, we’ve found a blog post from [MaFrance351] (Google Translate) that teaches you everything

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Did Remote Working Doom a San Francisco Macy’s?

“These days in San Francisco, every major business closure triggers a rush to assign blame,” argues the San Francisco Standard: When Macy’s announced this week that it would shutter its flagship store in Union Square, it unleashed a wave of mourning and recriminations… Mayor London Breed and other local pols like state Sen. Scott Wiener

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The very best food stuff on the internet

Illustration: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 28, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome to the Installerverse, so glad you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading

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How to Disable Automatic Updates on iPhone

Like Android, your iPhone also effectively scans for all available updates and downloads them in the background. The same goes for apps as well; your iPhone automatically updates your apps from the App Store. Automatic updates are a very useful feature since they prevent you from the hassle of manual update installation. Still, for some

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How to Disable Automatic Updates on iPhone

Like Android, your iPhone also effectively scans for all available updates and downloads them in the background. The same goes for apps as well; your iPhone automatically updates your apps from the App Store. Automatic updates are a very useful feature since they prevent you from the hassle of manual update installation. Still, for some

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Cybiko Repair-A-Thon With Memory Upgrade

Concluding a four-part repair-a-thon on a stack of Cybiko handheld computers, [Robert] over at Robert’s Retro covered the intricate details of fixing a last batch of four in a nearly one-hour long video. These devices, with their colorful transparent cases, are a great time capsule of the early 2000s. Even with their limited hardware, they provided

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Lost Print Vacuum Casting in a Microwave

Hacks are rough around the edges by their nature, so we love it when we get updates from makers about how they’ve improved their process. [Denny] from Shake the Future has just provided an update on his microwave casting process. Sticking metal in a microwave certainly seems like it would be a bad idea at

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French Court Issues Damages Award For Violation of GPL

Some news from “Copyleft Currents”, the blog of open-source/IP lawyer Heather Meeker: On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed the copyight of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software and violated the GPL. They ordered Orange to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and

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