Collaborate Disseminate
Long-time tech journalist Clive Thompson interviewed over 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and start-ups for a new article on AI-assisted programming. It’s title?
“Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It… Continue reading Will AI Bring ‘the End of Computer Programming As We Know It’?
If a zipper breaks, a 3D printer might not be the first tool one reaches for — but it’s more feasible than one might think. [MisterJ]’s zipper slider replacement is …read more Continue reading This Printed Zipper Repair Requires No Unsewing
It’s America’s first large-scale offshore wind project, reports WBUR — enough clean energy to power 400,000 homes in Massachusetts from 62 offshore wind turbines generating 800 megawatts.
But it took a while… The plant’s first construction de… Continue reading America’s First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction
“Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” writes Kotaku — especially with the console’s underpowered “Super FX” coprocessor
Hampered by a nea… Continue reading How a Raspberry Pi Saved the Super Nintendo’s Infamously Inferior Version Of ‘Doom’
[idealdealy] had a problem. GNU Radio Companion was proving to be a powerful tool, but it just didn’t look… cool enough. The solution? A custom bit of software called PimpMyGRC, designed …read more Continue reading GNU Radio Gets a Makeover With PimpMyGRC
Plug-in (or “balcony”) solar panels can also be hung out a window or be set up in a backyard, reports NPR. They channel energy from the sun straight into a home’s electrical outlet, generating enough electricity to power a refrigerator or microwave whi… Continue reading Are U.S. Utilities Trying to Delay Easy-to-Use Solar ‘Balcony’ Panels?
“A few developers found a way, for now, to turn a few of these increasingly mediocre Amazon Show devices into friendly, useful, open computers,” writes the co-founder of the gaming/tech news site Aftermath. For under $50 each, he bought some used versi… Continue reading Gaming Site Editor Jailbreaks an Amazon Echo Show
It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put aside their contemplation of all things circular and join us …read more Continue reading Take Pi for a Spin in this Orbital Simulator
“The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models feature a keyboard change,” reports MacRumors:
On the U.S. English version of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps now have glyphs on them. On … Continue reading Should Keycaps Use Text or Glyphs for Delete, Return, Tab, Caps Lock, and Shift?
Last week System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized age-verification laws for operating systems — but he now sees a “real possibility” Colorado’s law might exclude open-source.
Phoronix reports that the System76 CEO met with the state Senator who c… Continue reading System76 CEO Sees ‘Real Possibility’ Colorado’s Age-Verification Bill Excludes Open-Source