On March 7th, 2021 with 49 comments
"At the recent tinyML Summit 2021, Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton teased the future of 'Pi Silicon'," writes Tom's Hardware, adding "It looks like machine...
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On February 10th, 2021 with 20 comments
Thanks to the hard work of the SwitchRoot team, it's now possible to enjoy an Android 10-based LineageOS 17.1 port on your Nintendo Switch console. XDA...
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On February 8th, 2021 with 134 comments
"A company says it has listed the first 3D printed house in the United States for sale," reports CNN.
"This is the future, there is no doubt about it," says...
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On December 14th, 2019 with 42 comments
PC Magazine's "tech nerd" Whitson Gordon writes that "Once you start using a smart speaker to set reminders, play the news, or turn the lights on, it's hard to...
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On October 20th, 2019 with 83 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader ttsiod works for the European Space Agency as an embedded software engineer. He writes:
After reading an interesting article from...
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On September 9th, 2019 with 118 comments
"Biohackers took one small but important step toward the science fiction dystopia depicted in William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic," reports The Parallax, in an...
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On August 17th, 2019 with 42 comments
option8 ((Slashdot reader #16,509) writes: TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world's combined economies, and take...
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On June 8th, 2019 with 117 comments
McGruber quotes TechCrunch:
Maker Media Inc ceased operations this week and let go of all of its employees — about 22 employees" founder and CEO Dale...
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On February 20th, 2019 with 161 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In case you missed the latest drama to take place in the YouTube tech community, Ars Technica reports how Vox Media attempted to...
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On May 19th, 2018 with 96 comments
"You could look at this as a smallish PDP-11/70, built with modern parts," Oscar Vermeulen writes on his site. "Or alternatively, and equally valid, as a fancy...
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On May 7th, 2018 with 37 comments
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that Kinect is moving to the cloud. "Kinect, when we first launched it in 2010, was a...
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On September 23rd, 2017 with 305 comments
Jason Koebler writes: Apple's top environmental officer made the company's most extensive statements about the repairability of Apple hardware on Tuesday: "Our...
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On July 29th, 2017 with 119 comments
Big Hairy Ian shares an article from New Atlas: Desktop Metal -- remember the name. This Massachussetts company is preparing to turn manufacturing on its head,...
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On June 22nd, 2017 with 548 comments
per unit analyzer writes: According to Consumerist, an attorney has filed a class-action lawsuit charging Home Depot (PDF) and Menards (PDF) with deceptive...
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On June 12th, 2017 with 181 comments
dryriver writes: This is not asking what would happen if you were to place your iMac inside your kitchen fridge. Rather, what if a computer casing for a...
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On May 1st, 2017 with 219 comments
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report written by Andrew Cunningham via Ars Technica: Apple is working on new desktop Macs, including a ground-up...
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On March 20th, 2017 with 55 comments
"Developers can distribute their applications packaged as snaps to Orange Pi owners," explains a new blog post from Canonical, bragging that "hackers and...
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On February 18th, 2017 with 36 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
A new kit turns your Raspberry Pi into a robotic arm. It's controlled by an on-board joystick, or even a web browser, and "because...
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On January 21st, 2017 with 115 comments
Hackaday reports that Asus has "quietly released their Tinker board that follows the Pi form factor very closely, and packs a 1.8 GHz quad-core ARM Cortes A17...
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On December 4th, 2016 with 274 comments
Bre PettisâS once said MakerBot gave you a superpower -- "You can make anything you need." But four years later, mirandakatz writes that though MakerBot...
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On October 19th, 2016 with 40 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: The Micro Bit mini-computer is to be sold across the world and enthusiasts are to be offered blueprints showing...
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On September 28th, 2016 with 81 comments
Soon after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) issued a letter to HP, calling for them to apologize to customers for releasing firmware that prevents the...
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On September 1st, 2016 with 78 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Ars Technica: HP has announced today two new desktop PCs: HP Elite Slice and Pavilion Wave. The HP Elite Slice is...
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On August 21st, 2016 with 21 comments
Intel demoed their new robotics compute module this week. Scheduled for release in 2017, it's equipped with various sensors, including a depth-sensing camera,...
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On August 18th, 2016 with 124 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via The Daily Dot: Onion's Omega2 computer may give the Raspberry Pi a run for its money if the success of the...
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On August 2nd, 2016 with 53 comments
Microsoft is now selling its augmented reality headset dubbed HoloLens to anyone in the United States or Canada for $3,000 a pop. Computerworld reports: Until...
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On July 30th, 2016 with 80 comments
Slashdot reader Paul Fernhout writes: FarmBot is an open-source gantry-crane-style outdoor robot for tending a garden bed. The project is crowdfunding a first...
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On July 22nd, 2016 with 134 comments
MojoKid writes from a report via HotHardware: Details just emerged from NVIDIA regarding its upcoming powerful, Pascal-based Titan X graphics card, featuring a...
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On July 19th, 2016 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NDTV: The latest versions of Facebook's Android app now allow users to save videos for offline viewing. The video is...
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On July 15th, 2016 with 50 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Recode: Google recently nixed an internal project to create a high-end standalone virtual-reality headset that...
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