Month: September 2018

This Nixie Device is Useless, But Pretty

Nixie clocks, they’re a bit of a cliché, aren’t they? But still, they’re pretty to look at. [Marcin Saj] has completely got our number, and with his Useless Nixie Device has stripped away any pretence of functionality from his Nixie and concentrated solely on the looking pretty part. It’s a box that steps through the…


What Will Happen When Killer Robots Get Hijacked?

“Imagine an artificial-intelligence-driven military drone capable of autonomously patrolling the perimeter of a country or region and deciding who lives and who dies, without a human operator. Now do the same with tanks, helicopters and biped/quadruped robots.” A United Nations conference recently decided not to ban these weapons systems outright, but to revisit the topic…


The next UX frontier: a simpler view of enterprise applications

Users want the ease of mobile and cloud apps at work, this requires stepping up the commitment to application design. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Actors who played Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson – CNET

Here’s a look at some of the actors who’ve portrayed the great detective and his partner in movies and TV shows. …read more Source:: CNet


Putting M5Stack on LoRa and the Things Network

LoRa is the new hotness in low-power, long-range communications. Wanting to let the packets fly, [Xose] was faced with a frequecny problem and ended up developing a Europe-friendly LoRa module for the M5Stack system. The hardware is aimed at getting onto The Things Network, a LoRa based network that provides connectivity for IoT devices. While…


100 Years Ago, Influenza Killed 50 Million People. Could It Happen Again?

Last year 80,000 Americans died of the flu — and 900,000 more were hospitalized, according to estimates by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. NBC News reports: The numbers were shocking. Until now, CDC has said flu kills anywhere between 12,000 and 56,000 people a year, depending on how bad the flu season…


Web inventor Berners-Lee creates a new privacy first way of dealing with the internet

First, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the web, now he wants to save it. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Take a look at the actors who played Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson – CNET

Here’s a look at some of the actors who’ve portrayed the great detective and his partner in movies and TV shows. …read more Source:: CNet


Stranger Things haunted house offers plenty of Demogorgon – CNET

The Universal Studios theme park’s Halloween Horror Nights event is made up of good scary fun. …read more Source:: CNet


Inside the Universal Studios Stranger Things haunted house – CNET

The Netflix series gets a haunted house setup for Halloween Horror Nights. Ready to go Upside Down? …read more Source:: CNet