If you are fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to play with an analogue-reel-to-reel tape recorder in a well-equipped studio, you probably looped the tape around to create an echo, or a delay in the audio. It was a desirable effect to have, but not a practical one for a guitar pedal or similar…

Kenya will reportedly use Alphabet’s system of internet balloons to connect its rural population to the web. The balloons, known as Project Loon, were developed by Alphabet’s X, the company’s innovation lab. It was recently used by U.S. telecom operators to provide connectivity to people in Puerto Rico after a hurricane last year. Reuters reports:…

Plus: France’s goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris, almost ate a dragonfly, and some say it gave him superpowers. …read more Source:: CNet

We’re all for buying broken stuff from eBay to save yourself a few bucks: buy it cheap, fix it, and reap the rewards of being a step ahead of the average consumer. Searching through the “For parts or not working” categories is nearly the official pastime here at the Hackaday Bunker. But buying an eBay…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Professor Veena Sahajwalla’s mine in Australia produces gold, silver and copper — and there isn’t a pick-axe in sight. Her “urban mine” at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) is extracting these materials not from rock, but from electronic gadgets. The Sydney-based expert in materials…

Slashdot reader Dave Knott brings news: Steve Ditko, the legendary comics artist best known for co-creating Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, has died at age 90. No cause of death was announced. Neil Gaiman posted on Twitter, “I know I’m a different person because he was in the world.” Entertainment Weekly reports: Ditko’s most enduring characters…

So sayeth OWASP chairman Martin Knobloch AppSec EU Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) chairman Martin Knobloch wants security people and businesses to give developers respect and love rather than slating their work.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

If you want to do a quick design for 3D printing, Tinkercad is pretty easy to use. Although it was briefly in danger of going out of business, it was bought by AutoDesk who have made a lot of improvements. It is possible to program and simulate an Arduino in the same tool — which…

A recently discovered hole in Valve’s API allowed observers to generate extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of players for thousands of Steam games. While Valve has now closed this inadvertent data leak, Ars can still provide the data it revealed as a historical record of the aggregate popularity of a…

Oh — and he uploaded it to YouTube before the other guy did. …read more Source:: CNet