Because even 16GB of RAM can feel cramped on a laptop these days. …read more Source:: CNet

Facebook’s terrible year isn’t getting any better; Google Chrome reminds you when your browsing isn’t safe; and Microsoft thinks outside of the box to design a box. …read more Source:: CNet

Eye-popping effects are standard in superhero movies, but “realistic” films like Sicario: Day of the Soldado use cutting-edge digital trickery, too. …read more Source:: CNet

Don’t believe it, machines aren’t really better than us at much Hello, here’s a short roundup of this week’s news and announcements in AI, including worrying news for cancer sufferers, good news for human linguists and some new job opportunities.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

After more than four months of testing, our results are in. …read more Source:: CNet

We feature hundreds of projects here at Hackaday, and once they have passed by our front page and disappeared into our archives we often have no opportunity to return to them and see how they developed. Sometimes of course they are one-off builds, other times they wither as their creator loses interest, but just occasionally…

At least two malls in Calgary are using facial recognition technology to track shoppers’ ages and genders without first obtaining their consent. “A visitor to Chinook Center in south Calgary spotted a browser window that had seemingly accidentally been left open on one of the mall’s directories, exposing facial-recognition software that was running in the…

The good, the bad, and the ugly from infosec Roundup There has been a bumper crop of security news this week, including another shipping company getting taken down by ransomware, Russian hackers apparently completely pwning US power grids and a sane request from Senator Wyden (D-OR) for the US government to dump Flash. But there…

There are a multitude of radio shields for the Arduino and similar platforms, but they so often only support one protocol, manufacturer, or frequency band. [Jan Gromeš] was vexed by this in a project he saw, so decided to create a shield capable of supporting multiple different types. And because more is so often better,…

dmoberhaus writes: Pacific Spaceflight is a small group of volunteers that has spent the last decade developing an open source, DIY spacesuit in their members’ living rooms. This fall its creator will fly to over 60,000 feet in a hot air balloon, known as the Armstrong Limit, the point at which exposed body fluids will…