The Game Boy Camera, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Pixels

Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. In an age when there are more megapixels stuffed in the sensor of a smartphone camera than the average computer display can even represent, why would jagged images from a 20-year-old grayscale camera with pixels numbering in the thousands still grab attention? Maybe what’s …read more

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Adobe to Remove Flash Download Links, Recommends People Uninstall It Now

Adobe is taking further steps in its Flash-dismantling process scheduled to take place by the end of 2020, and said users should uninstall it long before the end-of-life date. Removing Flash from online content is a long and complicated process that ha… Continue reading Adobe to Remove Flash Download Links, Recommends People Uninstall It Now

LIDAR Built on Familiar Platform

Moore’s law may have reached its physical limit for transistor density, but plenty of other technologies are still on that familiar path of getting smaller and smaller as time passes. It looks like LIDAR is no exception to this trend either. This project from [Owen] shows a fully-functional LIDAR system …read more

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Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, & Julian Assange – Paul’s Security Weekly #600

    In the news, Bitcoin mining ban considered by China’s economic planner, Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement, Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange arrested an… Continue reading Bitcoin, WikiLeaks, & Julian Assange – Paul’s Security Weekly #600

MIT Scratch 3.0 Opens New Doors For Users And Builders Alike

We typically feature projects from people sharing what they’ve learned while building something for themselves. But our community has a healthy contingent who deploy their skills for the benefit of future generations, developing a child’s natural curiosity for play into interest in understanding the technical world they will grow up in. This field is where MIT’s release of Scratch 3.0 can open up interesting possibilities.

Scratch is a block-based programming language designed for elementary school children, letting them learn fundamental concepts while experimenting in an environment filled with visual and audible feedback. In an effort to make Scratch more widely …read more

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Flash to be stopped in Office 365

If you are one of the few Office 365 users who embeds Silverlight, Shockwave, or Flash content in your documents, your pastime will soon be a thing of the past. Over a week ago, Microsoft announced that Office 365 would completely block said media by … Continue reading Flash to be stopped in Office 365