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Most people who read Hackaday have positive feelings about automation. (Notice we said most.) How many times have you been behind someone in a grocery store line waiting for them …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Are Self-Checkouts Failing?
Once expensive and difficult to implement, renewable energy solutions like wind and solar are now often the cheapest options available for generating electricity for the grid. However, there are still …read more Continue reading Liquid Tin Could Be The Key To Cheap, Plentiful Grid Storage
Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions puts …read more Continue reading Remembering Niklaus Wirth: Father Of Pascal And Inspiration To Many
We’ve made it through another trip around the sun, and for the first time in what feels like far too long, it seems like things went pretty well for the …read more Continue reading 2023: As The Hardware World Turns
Since China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) unveiled its KUN-24AP containership at the Marintec China Expo in Shanghai in early December of 2023, the internet has been abuzz about it. Not …read more Continue reading China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping?
Perhaps the most-cited downside of renewable energy is that wind or sunlight might not always be available when the electrical grid demands it. As they say in the industry, it’s …read more Continue reading Renewable Energy: Beyond Electricity
We’ve seen a lot of AI tools lately, and, of course, we know they aren’t really smart, but they sure fool people into thinking they are actually intelligent. Of course, …read more Continue reading Can Google’s New AI Read Your Datasheets for You?
There are a bunch of ways to estimate the age of a radio amateur, by the letters in their callsign, by their preferred choice of homebrewing technology, or sometimes by …read more Continue reading The Sunspots Are Coming (Again)
Last week, we wrote about the Leica M11-P, the world’s first camera with Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) credentials baked into every shot. Essentially, each file is signed with Leica’s …read more Continue reading Falsified Photos: Fooling Adobe’s Cryptographically-Signed Metadata
In a world increasingly reliant on technology, a pressing question arises: can our dependence on gadgets, particularly mobile phones, be affecting our health in unexpected ways? A growing body of …read more Continue reading Mobile Phones and The Question of Declining Sperm Quality