FLIR are making some really great miniature thermal cameras these days, designed for applications such as self-driving cars, and tools that help keep firefighters safe. That’s great and all, but these thermal cameras are so cool, you really just want to play with one. That’s what [greg] was thinking when he designed a PCB backpack…

Famous seven dirty little words allowed in .us addresses NSFW The US government has conceded that you can indeed fuck Nazis on the internet.… …read more Source:: <a href=http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/13/us_government_swear_words/ target="_self" title="[NSFW] US govt concedes that you can indeed f**k Nazis online: Domain-name swear ban lifted” >TheRegister

Tesla posted a picture of the Gigafactory on Twitter. …read more Source:: CNet

RoccamOccam writes: WebRender, an experimental GPU-based renderer for web content, written in Rust, is now enabled by default for Firefox Nightly users on desktop Windows 10 with Nvidia GPUs. The announcement was made on the mailing list. Lin Clark provides an excellent overview of WebRender and, states, “with WebRender, we want apps to run at…

SapFix could free programmers from coding drudgery. …read more Source:: CNet

A senior Google research scientist has quit the company in protest over its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China. The Intercept: Jack Poulson worked for Google’s research and machine intelligence department, where he was focused on improving the accuracy of the company’s search systems. In early August, Poulson raised…

Don’t worry, your favorite podcasts will still be there. …read more Source:: CNet

If you have a brushless motor, you have some magnets, a bunch of coils arranged in a circle, and theoretically, all the parts you need to build a rotary encoder. A lot of people have used brushless or stepper motors as rotary encoders, but they all seem to do it by using the motor as…

What would it look like if more than a tiny fraction of enterprises had access to all the signals hidden in their big data today? …read more Source:: DarkReading

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 is a business productivity powerhouse that the consumer electronics giant desperately wants to go mainstream. Whether you upgrade depends on whether you’re more about work or play. Here’s how it compares to the iPhone XS Max. …read more Source:: ZDNet