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Although vapor-compression refrigeration is a simple concept, there are still a lot of details in the implementation of such a system that determines exactly how efficient it is. After making …read more Continue reading Testing Refrigerants and Capillary Tubes to Find Peak Performance
175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system “Pix”, developed by the country’s central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have develop… Continue reading Latin America’s Central Banks Establish Digital Payments Used By Hundreds of Millions
Arizona state prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation, charging the prediction market with 20 “wagering” misdemeanors. But Friday a federal judge “temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive… Continue reading Judge Pauses Arizona’s Prosecution of Kalshi, Bars Arizona from Regulating Prediction Markets
Kiki bills itself as the “array programming system of unknown origin.” We thought it reminded us of APL which, all by itself, isn’t a bad thing. The announcement post is …read more Continue reading Kiki is the Unknown Array Language
Walmart’s next streaming device might be exactly what Chromecast fans have been longing for. Here’s what’s expected. Continue reading The $30 Google TV stick may be the budget Chromecast successor we’ve been waiting for
There’s a long history of devices originally used for communication being made into computers, with relay switching circuits, vacuum tubes, and transistors being some well-known examples. In a smaller way, …read more Continue reading A Suction-Driven Seven-Segment Display
“Breathable oxygen has been created from Moon dust,” reports the Telegraph, “in a world first that paves the way for a lunar base.”
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin “”announced this week that it had developed a reactor that could successfully release oxygen … Continue reading Oxygen Made From Moon Dust For First Time
Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service is making some changes, reports Engadget:
It’s no longer possible to buy Ubisoft+ and Jackbox Games subscriptions or standalone games through Luna. Amazon will automatically cancel any active subscriptions bought th… Continue reading Amazon Luna Ends Its Support for Purchased Games and Third-Party Subscriptions
“Only about 2% of visually impaired people in the United States use guide dogs,” notes StudyFinds.com, “partly because breeding and training takes years and fewer than half the dogs in training actually graduate.”
But someday there could be another o… Continue reading Researchers Build a Talking Robot Guide Dog to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate
Although we can already buy commercial transceiver solutions that allow us to use PCIe devices like GPUs outside of a PC, these use an encapsulating protocol like Thunderbolt rather than …read more Continue reading Implementing PCIe over Fiber Using SFP Modules