Collaborate Disseminate
The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing “rebellion” against attention-hogging devices, citing “a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life.”
D. Graham Burnett is a historian of scienc… Continue reading Can the ‘Attention Liberation Movement’ Foment a Rebellion Against Screens?
If you put a bunch of computers in charge of your house, it’s generally desirable to ensure their up-time is as close to 100% as possible. An uninterruptible power supply …read more Continue reading DIY UPS Keeps Home Assistant Running
Older models, like the Google Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus, are now more appealing than ever. Here’s why. Continue reading Why I’m recommending last year’s phones over 2026 models – with one exception
I enabled Personal Intelligence, connected my Google apps, and now Gemini guesses what I want without me saying it. Continue reading This powerful Gemini setting made my AI results way more personal and accurate
Betteridge’s law applies, but with help and guidance by a human who knows his stuff, [Ready Z80] was able to get a functioning game of Wordle out of the French-named …read more Continue reading Can Claude Write Z80 Assembly Code?
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the ri… Continue reading Week in review: Acrobat Reader flaw exploited, Claude Mythos offensive capabilities and limits
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks “had a mere capacity of 1.44MB,” remembers XDA Developers, “which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about.”
Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while w… Continue reading Remembering Zip Drives – the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s
Capacitive displacement sensors span a wide range of resolution, from the touchscreen sensors which can only detect displacement as a binary state, all the way to the sensors in semiconductor …read more Continue reading Using Capacitance for Extremely Sensitive Proximity Sensing
Last May Duolingo’s stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51.
And there’s been other changes, reports Entre… Continue reading Duolingo CEO Says They’ve Stopped Tracking Employees’ AI Use for Performance Reviews
HP’s ZBook 8 G1i eschews a breezy build and marathon battery for a traditional business workstation approach. Continue reading After testing this HP laptop, I get why its ‘boring’ design is adored by business users