If you need to add one or two SMT chips to your breadboarded prototype, [Travis Hein] has you covered. He designed a set of small SMD adaptor boards for various SOIC, SOT23, and DPAC patterns using KiCad. He has released them as open source, so you can feel free to use them or modify them…

“Josiah Zayner’s plan was simple: replicate a Covid-19 vaccine that had worked in monkeys, test it on himself and then livestream the experiment online over a period of months,” reports Bloomberg. “Zayner discovered, testing a vaccine is far more complicated than he had imagined.” Even though his experiment yielded a promising result, Zayner found too…

Code rot leads to under-performing enterprise systems. In today’s device-laden edge world, it can be devastating. Another issue lurking: inaccurate AI algorithms. …read more Source:: ZDNet

DOSS has a slew of speakers and earbuds up to 44% off today only. …read more Source:: CNet

A British supermarket celebrated its 50th anniversary by playing with its food — specifically, one lucky piece of breaded protein: The grocery store chain hired Sent Into Space to launch the chicken nugget into space. According to its website, Sent Into Space is the “world’s leading space marketing company, specialising in space-themed marketing campaigns and…

“Facing the prospect that President Trump could lose his re-election bid, his cabinet is scrambling to enact regulatory changes affecting millions of Americans in a blitz so rushed it may leave some changes vulnerable to court challenges,” reports the New York Times: The effort is evident in a broad range of federal agencies and encompasses…

I’ve got spare parts, and I cannot lie. This week I’m sending out two care packages to friends and coworkers because I’ve got too many hackables on hand, and not enough time to hack them all. One is a funky keyboard, and the other is an FPGA dev board, but that’s not the point. The…

Yes, really: Pay $39 a month for three years and the ProForm Studio Bike Pro is yours. Or get the same deal on an elliptical. …read more Source:: CNet

The big event is over, but a handful of tasty bargains remain. …read more Source:: CNet

Here’s how the iPhone 12 compares with the iPhone 11 and whether you should upgrade. …read more Source:: CNet