Collaborate Disseminate
NVIDIA has been “gradually dropping support for older videocards,” notes Hackaday, “with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed.”
“What’s more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, w… Continue reading NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux
Waymo explained this week that its self-driving car technology is already “designed to handle dark traffic signals,” and successfully handled over 7,000 last Saturday during San Francisco’s long power outage, properly treating those intersections as fo… Continue reading Waymo Updates Vehicles to Better Handle Power Outages – But Still Faces Criticism
The nonprofit Open Source Initiative offers “enriched” license pages with “relevant metadata to provide deeper insights and better support”.
So which pages got the most pageviews in 2025? The MIT license, Apache 2.0 license, BSD licenses (3-clause an… Continue reading Open Source Initiative Estimates the ‘Top Open Source Licenses in 2025’
Gaming is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately for many of us, work takes up our valuable time, which should be allocated to our gaming. What if there was a better way? …read more Continue reading Playing DOOM on a Receipt Printer
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima’s nuclear plant “was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,” CNN remembers.
But this week Japanese authorities “have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant,” reports … Continue reading Japan Votes to Restart World’s Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
The 2011 meltdown at Fukushima’s nuclear plant “was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986,” CNN remembers.
But this week Japanese authorities “have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant,” reports … Continue reading Japan Votes to Restart Fukushima Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Its Meltdown
Money gifts burning a hole in your pocket? These deals on WIRED-tested gadgets and gizmos will stretch your dollars. Continue reading The Best After-Christmas Deals on Gear We’ve Tested (2025)
An astrophysicist at the University of Rochester writes that “many” of his colleagues in physics “have come to believe that a mystery is unfolding in every microbe, animal, and human.” And it’s a mystery that:
– “Challenges basic assumptions physicis… Continue reading Should Physicists Study the Question: What is Life?
On Wednesday (Christmas Eve), the Free Software Foundation announced it had received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD — in the cryptocurrency Monero.
The two donations “are among some of the largest private gifts ever made t… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Receives ‘Historic’ Donations Worth Nearly $900K – in Monero
Everyone loves a full-wave bridge rectifier, but there’s no denying that they aren’t 100% efficient due to the diode voltage drop. Which isn’t to say that with some effort we …read more Continue reading Active Ideal Full Bridge Rectifier using TEA2208T