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A Hackable Web Toy Reimagines the Clock in Base 10, Binary, and Hex
A developer's browser-based project revisits an old gripe: the day's division into 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds is historical baggage, not sane math. To
AI 2040: A Deliberate Delay to Superintelligence as an Alternative to the Race
The AI Futures Project—the group behind the widely-circulated AI 2027 forecast—has published 'Plan A,' a scenario laying out how humanity might reach superintel
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging ex-staff funneled trade secrets into its hardware push
Apple has filed suit in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware unit io Products, and former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu, cl
Big Buttons, Analog Dials: The Lost Aesthetic of Soviet Control Rooms
A photo collection revisits the control rooms of the Soviet era, when critical infrastructure was managed through walls of physical switches, illuminated button
Building a cloudless, globally-reachable smart fan on an ESP32 with iroh
A walkthrough shows how to turn a cheap ESP32 microcontroller into an internet-controllable smart fan without any cloud backend. Using iroh, a Rust peer-to-peer
Combustion Lab: a browser-based engine simulator with real thermodynamic models
Combustion Lab is an educational, in-browser internal-combustion-engine simulator that resolves engine behavior by crank angle rather than just reporting steady
EU Says Facebook and Instagram's Addictive Design Breaches the DSA
The European Commission has found that Meta's Facebook and Instagram run afoul of the Digital Services Act, the EU's platform-governance regime, on the grounds
Flashcards for deep understanding: rethinking spaced repetition beyond rote memorization
The author pushes back on the common STEM assumption that flashcards are just mechanical memorization tools fit only for vocabulary. After taking the "Learning
Grand Canyon raft guide rows California to Hawaii solo, beats men's and women's speed records
Kelsey Pfendler, a longtime Colorado River raft guide, reached Honolulu on Friday after rowing her 21-foot boat roughly 2,400 miles solo from Monterey, Californ
How ILM Invented the Software Behind Terminator 2's Liquid-Metal T-1000
In 1991, ILM's computer graphics department was tiny and pushing against the limits of the hardware it had, yet it delivered the CG that defined Terminator 2: J
Leaded Gasoline Was Known to Poison From Day One — Industry Shipped It Anyway
In 1921, GM engineer Thomas Midgley Jr. identified tetraethyl lead (TEL) as an additive that suppressed engine knock, and by 1923 it was being pumped at filling
Limpet teeth dethrone spider silk as the strongest known natural material
Engineers at the University of Portsmouth found that the teeth of limpets — marine snails that grind rock as they feed — have a tensile strength roughly five ti