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  • Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth

    I love everything about this… The purity of thought is :cheffy_kiss: Interestingly the design works with the hub, and it works if I plug it into my phone, but it doesn’t enumerate if I plug it straight into my laptop. But it does enumerate on the end of that noncompliant USB-C extension cable I’ve concocted.…

  • Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography

    The playback of the videos happens in what seems like a hazy, light, borderless frame, giving the videos a dreamlike quality. It is a very strange feeling — as if you have been transported back in time — and the videos have a dimensionality to them. The spatial videos I experienced felt more like memories…

  • NASA is investigating a strange series of coded messages from space. they’re coming from a familiar source.

    One of the problems the Voyager team faces, in addition to working across incredible distances to communicate with an Earthly spacecraft drifting at a solid 38,210 miles per hour on its way through interstellar space, has to do with technology that is now several decades old.

  • Tesla alum startup Lightship details the aero and extreme efficiency of its L1 electric RV

    We have followed Lightship since its inception, through to the official unveiling of its L1 electric RV trailer at SXSW this past March. This travel trailer is unique in its aerodynamic, modular design and comes equipped with its own all-electric powertrain and battery pack, alleviating the towing capacity for the vehicle in front of it. … Today,…

  • This new ‘world’s largest’ wind turbine makes power in severe typhoons

    It’s meant to be deployed in medium to high wind-speed regions and is particularly suitable for typhoon-prone sites. It comes equipped with active anti-typhoon technology capable of withstanding Category 17 typhoons (56.1-61.2 m/s), the most severe typhoon level. The massive wind turbine offers flexible power ratings ranging from 18.X to 20 MW and rotor diameters…

  • The Commodore Amiga and its Undying Adoration by Anarchist Creatives

    While my Acorn Archimedes was a vastly superior computer to the Amiga, I was always very jealous about the demos that my Amiga using friends had access to. This essay investigates the gestation of the demoscene, the Amiga platform’s revolutionary beginnings, its emotional resonance within a dedicated community, and its broader influence on the field…

  • Why scientists are making transparent wood

    Transparent wood windows would therefore be stronger and aid in temperature control better than traditional glass, but the view through them would be hazy, more similar to frosted glass than a regular window. However, the haziness could be an advantage if users want diffuse light: Since thicker wood is strong, it could be a partially…

  • Breakthrough in understanding whale language

    Why do I get the feeling that the first words we translate aren’t going to be “welcome fellow travellers”? US Berkeley researchers used artificial intelligence to determine that some of the clicks used by whales to communicate are “on many levels analogous to human vowels and dipthongs,” the sound of two vowels in a single…

  • Elite: “The game that couldn’t be written”

    Elite is the game that got me into computing…

  • Ford F-150 Lightnings will soon offer home AC power, possibly cheaper than grid

    Ford and Resideo, a Honeywell Home thermostat brand, recently announced the EV-Home Power Partnership. It’s still in the testing phases, but it could help make EVs a more optimal purchase. Put simply, you could charge your EV when it’s cheap, and when temperatures or demand make grid power time-of-use expensive (or pulled from less renewable sources),…