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Building a paper tape reader by itself isn’t super complicated: you need a source of light, some photoreceptors behind the tape to register the presence of holes and some way …read more Continue reading Building a Motor Feed For the UE1 Vacuum Tube Computer’s Paper Tape Reader
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shared this report from Science magazine: Elephants love showering to cool off, and most do so by sucking water into their trunks and spitting it over their bodies. But an elderly pachyderm named Mary has perfected the tech… Continue reading This Elephant Learned To Use a Hose As a Shower. Then Her Rival Sought Revenge
Salesforce “plans to hire more than 1,000 workers to sell its new generative AI agent product,” reports Bloomberg:
The hiring surge is aimed at capitalizing on “amazing momentum” for the new artificial intelligence product, Chief Executive Marc Beniof… Continue reading Salesforce to Hire 1,000 People for Big AI Product Sales Push
In the modern age, when you hear “component tester” you probably think of one of those cheap microcontroller-based devices that can identify components and provide basic measurements on an LCD …read more Continue reading Component Tester Teardown
The Free Software Foundation turns forty on October 4, 2025 “and we will end our thirties on a high note!” they announced this week:
We wish we were celebrating the achievement of software freedom for all computer users, but we’re not there yet. Unti… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Plans Year of Celebrations For Its 40th Anniversary
NASA hopes to stimulate in-space manufacturing through a multi-year “laser beam welding collaboration” with Ohio State University. The project “seeks to understand the physical processes of welding on the lunar surface,” according to NASA.gov, “such as… Continue reading NASA Investigates Laser-Beam Welding in a Vacuum for In-Space Manufacturing
Nathan Sobo “joined GitHub in late 2011 to build the Atom text editor,” according to an online biography, “and he led the Atom team until 2018.” Max Brunsfeld joined the Atom team in 2013, and “While driving Atom towards its 1.0 launch during the day, … Continue reading The Team Behind GitHub’s ‘Atom’ IDE Build a Cross-Platform, AI-Optional ‘Zed Editor’
In yesterday&#;x26;#;39;s diary entry “zipdump &#;x26; Evasive ZIP Concatenation” I showed how one can inspect the PKZIP records that make up a ZIP file.
Ice wreaks havoc on surfaces, but we might have a new way to prevent it building up. Scientists at Northwestern University have shown that textured surfaces with thin layers of graphene oxide can stay completely frost-free for long periods.Continue Rea… Continue reading Leaf-inspired graphene surfaces repel frost formation for a week
This tutorial will show you how to use Page colors in Microsoft Edge on a Windows 11 PC. Page colors is a native feature in the Edge browser to change the color scheme of webpages. If you face difficulty while reading webpages, this feature is handy. Y… Continue reading How to use Page colors in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11