The Treasury Department announces a major hacking incident, technology billionaires’ wealth soared in 2024, and Israel flexes its AI powers at war — all this and more in your Tuesday Tech Drop.
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вторник, 31 декабря 2024 г.
Politicians interfering with health care decisions was a frustrating hallmark of 2024
Science magazine named lenacapavir its "Breakthrough of the Year" for its remarkable efficacy in preventing HIV infection.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to Sun
On Christmas Eve the Parker solar probe nearly kissed the sun. Breaking the previous record by over 700,000 miles the probe passed the sun at 430,000 mph. The next pass will be attempted on March 22, 2025.
From NASA:
Parker Solar Probe has spent the last six years setting up for this moment. Launched in 2018, the spacecraft used seven flybys of Venus to gravitationally direct it ever closer to the Sun. With its last Venus flyby...
понедельник, 30 декабря 2024 г.
NYE Circuit Playground Drop
Make your own countdown to the New Year with our NYE Circuit Playground Drop guide. And, if you’d like, you could play this super synthy rendition of Auld Lang Syne while it goes down.
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Retro Revival : Bring Back Childhood Memories (Guitar Hero) #MusicMonday
SekohlahRobot on Hackster.io wanted to re-live their Guitar Hero glory days. They upgraded a PS2 Guitar controller for a modern PC with bluetooth.
I found my old guitar hero controller, but now PS2 doesn’t have it anymore, so I want to transforming a PS2 Guitar Hero Controller to convert Bluetooth PC. so I can play with PC / Notebook.
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German officials denounce Musk's attempts to meddle in elections
German officials have widely condemned Elon Musk’s attempts to meddle in the upcoming German elections by boosting the far-right AfD party.
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воскресенье, 29 декабря 2024 г.
Adafruit’s Top Ten 3D Printing Posts of 2024 #AdafruitTopTen
ADAFRUIT’S TOP TEN 3D PRINTING POSTS of 2024
IoT Doorbell Camera, Sound Reactive Paper Lanterns, Fog Machines, & more!
3D Hangouts – Pi Touch Case and Grumpy Cat Angel
Mac mini M4/M4 Pro Power Button
Pet Bottle Bidet
Open Lattice Flare Christmas Topper 2024
A Poster of CAD Design Tips for 3D Printing
Christmas Gingerbread...
What today's politicians can learn from Jimmy Carter's faith-inspired life
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president and a man of faith who spent decades after the presidency teaching Sunday School and building houses, has died at 100.
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Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: Glitch Your Gift List, Holiday IoT Switch, Adafruit Top Tens and more!
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP
We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more.
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суббота, 28 декабря 2024 г.
Man accused of setting NYC subway rider on fire indicted on murder and arson charges
A grand jury indicted the man accused of lighting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train on murder and arson charges. Former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Christian joins Chris Jansing to share her legal analysis.
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Imogen Heap Explains How the MiMU Glove Works #Wearable #Music
During her Tiny Desk Concert, Imogen Heap demonstrated the MiMU glove. The wearable allows her to orchestrate and manipulate sound in real time for ethereal effects. You can watch the whole set above or jump to the demonstration here!
You can also check out this video from a bit ago:
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пятница, 27 декабря 2024 г.
Major port strike could impact U.S. economy
A major dockworker strike is set to resume on January 16th and may impact the U.S. economy. CNBC's 'Worldwide Exchange' anchor Frank Holland joins Chris Jansing to explain more.
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Create a holiday light display with your Raspberry Pi and ping pong balls #piday #raspberrypi
Brian McCafferty posted this Ping Pong ball project on OpenSource.com. The ping pong balls create a lovely diffuse effect for NeoPixels so you can put together impressive large displays. You can see the github repo the project was helped along with the learn guide: NeoPixels on Raspberry Pi
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четверг, 26 декабря 2024 г.
Corporations hoping to get on Trump's good side are donating big bucks to his inauguration
Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are just two of the Silicon Valley executives who recently visited the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago.
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Gaza officials say 5 journalists killed in Israeli strike
Although media workers are protected by international humanitarian law, journalists in Gaza face especially high risks as they cover the war.
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From the mail bag…
From the mail bag!
My third graders began their journeys with Circuit
Playground Express for Computer Science Week. It has been so awesome
watching them grow in their learning and find success! We created Kindness
Wands to go along with Kindness Week and tomorrow we are creating Michigan
themed snow globes integrating Michigan Geography!
Thanks...
среда, 25 декабря 2024 г.
mini Sparkle Motion prototype – a tiny, fully-featured WLED board
We’re doing a lot of serious testing with our WLED mega-board, code-name Sparkle Motion. While doing some holiday lighting projects, we also wanted something slim enough to slip into any design. It still uses an ESP32 for the best support, with USB-serial programming, 5A fuse, 5V level shifting + 100 ohm series resistors for pixel drivers,...
Crickit Powered Holiday Diorama
Time to build a holiday diorama! This isn’t any old stagnant diorama. This one moves. That’s right Rudolf and his crew hop up and down through the night sky thanks to our friend CRICKIT! Along with CRICKIT and a Circuit Playground Express, we’ll use some cardboard, leds, pipe cleaners and a DC motor to bring this festive diorama to life.
Check out the full guide!
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Beyoncé’s NFL halftime show is part of Netflix’s big (and expensive) bet on live sports
Beyoncé is headlining an NFL halftime show on Christmas Day, lending her star power to a sporting event that Netflix is hoping will assert its status as a player in live sports programming.
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вторник, 24 декабря 2024 г.
Eugene Spector, U.S. citizen imprisoned in Russia, gets 13-year sentence for espionage
According to Russia’s RIA state news agency, a Russian court sentenced U.S. citizen Eugene Spector to 15 years in jail for espionage. Spector was already serving a 3-1/2-year sentence in Russia for bribery.
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Christmas Gingerbread Man Articulated #3DPrinting
Make your own festive Gingerbread Man with this cool print by inplace on Thingiverse!
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Why Do Some Cables Have a Bump? #FerriteCore
Before I learned about ferrite cores I assumed those blocks were added protection or some sort of strain resistance.
Ferrite cores (or Ferrite bead) are added to cords to reduce their electromagnet interference with other electronics. They are composed of a magnetic but non conductive ferrite. Fun explainer vid from @EkinYetkinEN on YouTube
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Giuliani, who has said he’s broke, dresses as Santa to hawk coffee
Rudy Giuliani, who has said that he cannot afford to pay his bills in protracted court proceedings over his assets handover to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, is now hawking his self-branded coffee line, Rudy Coffee.
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понедельник, 23 декабря 2024 г.
Shadow President Musk? Trump hits back 'that's not happening'
President-elect Trump is pushing back after criticism of Elon Musk's influence on him over government affairs. MSNBC political analyst Alexi McCammond and Washington Post congressional investigations reporter Jacqueline Alemany join Richard Lui to weigh in.
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Day 21: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar – SGI 02 #retrocomputing #firstcomputer #electronics
Day 21: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar – Silicon Graphics O2
The SGI O2, introduced in 1996 by Silicon Graphics (SGI), was a cutting-edge and futuristic workstation for multimedia and 3D graphics apps. It featured a modular design and the advanced Unified Memory Architecture (UMA), which allowed the CPU, GPU, and other subsystems to share...
Biden just spared 37 lives. Here are four very good reasons why.
Joe Biden commuted 37 of 40 death sentences (not Robert Bowers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev or Dylann Roof) in a sensible decision given Trump and Hunter's pardon.
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воскресенье, 22 декабря 2024 г.
Charles Turner seeks presidential pardon for a murder conviction he says is wrongful
Charles Turner was one of eight Black men who were convicted for the murder of Catherine Fuller in 1984. The six surviving men maintain their innocence and are now asking President Biden to pardon them. "It means that to me, the person with the most power in the free country believed in my plight, believed that I was innocent," Charles Turner said to MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart. Attorney Shawn Armbrust, who has been involved in...
A Liz Cheney investigation ‘would fail right at the get go’: Katyal condemns bogus Trump threat
House Republicans recently issued a report recommending the FBI investigate Liz Cheney for her role in investigating the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Neal Katyal breaks down why that legal case would likely fail to go anywhere in a court of law.
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LED Trinket Tree Topper
From the Adafruit Learning System Archives the 3D Printed Trinket-LED animated Moravian Star will shine bright.
Moravian Stars come in various sizes and number of facets… the most common is the 26-point form which is composed of eighteen square and eight triangular shaped points.
The star featured here is an adaption, using one of the points...
Jeffries: There will be 'no Democrats available' to save Mike Johnson's speakership
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries discusses the narrowly averted government shutdown, Elon Musk's influence among the Republican caucus, and House Democrats' focus during the next four years of Trump's presidency.
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суббота, 21 декабря 2024 г.
Rep. Connolly: 'Unelected billionaire' Elon Musk's shutdown chaos exposed Trump's 'weakness'
Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia will be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee after defeating AOC in the race to be ranking member. "It had nothing to do with how old people were," Rep. Connolly tells MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart. "I'm known as a bulldog." The congressman also discussed how Elon Musk steered government funding negotiations into chaos just ahead of the spending deadline, while Trump appeared to follow...
Day 20: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar – Sun SPARCstation 10 #retrocomputing #firstcomputer #electronics
Day 20: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar – Sun SPARCstation 10
The SPARCstation 10, launched in 1992 by Sun Microsystems, was a workstation known for its fast performance and modular design. Based on the SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) architecture, specifically the Sun-4m architecture, it supported up to four processors, including...
Officials say suspect in German Christmas market car attack had 'Islamophobic' views
Officials say the suspect behind the deaths of multiple people in a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, was identified as a doctor from Saudi Arabia who lived in Germany. NBC News' Daniele Hamamdjian reports on the investigation into the motive of the attack and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's reaction.
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Simple and Beautiful NeoPixel Holiday Lights
Create your own Simple and Beautiful NeoPixel Holiday Lights using with a few items from the shop
Get your Holiday cheer up and running with NeoPixels! Make a beautiful color shifting light strand to put on your Christmas tree, your house, or add color and light to your artwork. These weatherproof LED pixels work great indoors or outdoors....