A Speed Loader For Your 3D Printer Filament - Reloading filament on a 3D printer is hardly anyone’s favorite task, but it’s even... -

Hackaday

A Speed Loader For Your 3D Printer Filament

Reloading filament on a 3D printer is hardly anyone’s favorite task, but it’s even worse when you’re trying to shove stiff filame...

#speedloader #3dprinting #toolhacks #bowden

The history behind the QR code - It's used by millions of us every day, but why was the Quick Response code invented? -

The history behind the QR code

It's used by millions of us every day, but why was the Quick Response code invented?

Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain - PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro car... -

Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain

: PiStorm adapter and a parasitic OS hijack classic 68000 hardware in the name of retro carnage

Tech Life - China’s DeepSeek took the AI world by storm this year. Where is it now? And: AI doomsday?... -

BBC

Tech Life - What happened to DeepSeek? - BBC Sounds

China’s DeepSeek took the AI world by storm this year. Where is it now? And: AI doomsday?

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban - The Australian government says the world-first ban is aimed at protecting youth from onli... -

YouTube to be part of Australia's youth social media ban

The Australian government says the world-first ban is aimed at protecting youth from online harm.

Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account - They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it hands o... -

How to set up Windows 11 with a local account

hands on: They want you to use a Microsoft account, but we'll show you how to get around it

Titan sub investigators blame OceanGate for safety lapses and say fatal disaster was ‘preventable’ - In a 2017 image, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is framed by the carbon-composite cy... -

GeekWire

Titan sub investigators blame OceanGate for safety lapses and say fatal disaster was ‘preventable’

The panel investigating the loss of the Titan sub and its pilot and passengers in 2023 blamed the disaster on a long series of safety lapses.

#submersibles #coastguard #submarines #oceangate #titansub #titanic #tech

How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier - You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000 Before humanoid robots walk among us,... -

How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier

: You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000

Enthusiast spends 6 years building 'world's most impractical display' — 1,000-pixel wood panel uses a hacked-apart CNC machine to change a single pixel just 10 times a minute - An engineer spent six years crafting 'the world's most impr... -

Tom

Enthusiast spends 6 years building

Send an image to it now, via the web app. But be prepared for a wait.

#monitors

Real-Time Beamforming with Software-Defined Radio - It is perhaps humanity’s most defining trait that we are always striving to build ... -

Hackaday

Real-Time Beamforming With Software-Defined Radio

It is perhaps humanity’s most defining trait that we are always striving to build things better, stronger, faster, or bigger than that which ...

#software-definedradio #angleofarrival #adalm-pluto #beamforming #phasedarray #radiohacks #radio #sdr

Seagate's 26TB Expansion Desktop HDD has had its price slashed by $100 at Best Buy — now just $9.61 per TB - Seagate's 26TB Expansion Desktop HDD has had its price slas... -

Tom

Seagate

Aww shucks, this is one cost-effective way to get hold of a 26TB HDD for less.

#externalhdds #pccomponents #storage #hdds

Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust? - Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart In the beginn... -

Jeff Bezos

: Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart

Joby Will Buy Blade’s Helicopter Taxi Business for $125 Million - Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business... -

Electric Air Taxi Company Plans to Acquire a Helicopter Business

Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business of Blade, a New York helicopter operator, for $125 million.

#mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #federalaviationadministration #infrastructure(publicworks) #jobyaeroinc(jobyaviation) #airlinesandairplanes #militaryaircraft #stocksandbonds #manhattan(nyc) #bevirtjoeben #batteries

Bambu Lab introduces Kickstarter-like program for backing elaborate 3D printing projects — crowdfunding features added to the MakerWorld website - Bambu Lab ads Crowdfunding to support Maker World Designers... -

Tom

Bambu Lab introduces Kickstarter-like program for backing elaborate 3D printing projects — crowdfunding features added to the MakerWorld website

The system will allow fans to support ambitious projects by their favorite designers.

#3dprinting

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban - The Australian government says the world-first ban is aimed at protecting youth from onli... -

YouTube to be part of Australia's youth social media ban

The Australian government says the world-first ban is aimed at protecting youth from online harm.

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big - From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, th... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/01/palantir-trump-defense-tech-ai-software/

DIY MP3 Player Inspired By The iPod - These days, the personal MP3 player has been largely replaced by the the smartphon... -

Hackaday

DIY MP3 Player Inspired By The IPod

These days, the personal MP3 player has been largely replaced by the the smartphone. However, [Justinas Petkauskas] still appreciates the iPod for ...

#digitalaudiohacks #mp3player #esp32 #ipod

Servers hated Mondays until techie quit quaffing coffee in their company - Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots On Call  Mornings are hard... -

Servers hated Mondays until techie quit coffee

On Call: Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots

Microsoft Joins $4 Trillion Club - Microsoft has reached a $4 trillion market cap, becoming only the second company t... -

Microsoft Joins $4 Trillion Club - Slashdot

Microsoft has reached a $4 trillion market cap, becoming only the second company to achieve this milestone. Investors drove the stock up 4.62% foll...

#microsoft

AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill - Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs Vercel ... -

AWS Lambda cost nightmare: Vercel claims it found a way out

: Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs