Day: October 27, 2018

Longest-ever World Series game smashes some home-run memes – CNET

The 18-inning, seven-hour monstrosity that was Dodgers-Red Sox Game 3 just went on and on and on and on… …read more Source:: CNet


CNET UK Podcast 546: The iPhone verdict and Huawei’s impressive challenger – CNET

We find out how Facebook is going green in Ireland, uncover a forget-me-not font and check out First Man and Venom. …read more Source:: CNet


Twelve malicious Python libraries found and removed from PyPI

One package contained a clipboard hijacker that replaced victims’ Bitcoin addresses in an attempt to hijack funds from users. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Hardware Controllers For Software Effects

There is an interesting multi-effect available for all you musicians out there. It’s the Turnado from Sugar Bytes. It’s a real-time effects unit that takes advantage of a computer’s horsepower to add reverb and ring mods to whatever audio you feed into it. There’s flanger and a phaser. If you feed a drum loop into…


Apple Expected To Announce iPad Pro With USB-C Next Week

Bloomberg highlights all the big announcements expected to be made next week at Apple’s October hardware event, such as an iPad Pro with a USB-C port instead of a Lightning port, a MacBook Air successor, and a new Mac Mini. From the report: The update to the iPad Pro will be the most significant in…


iPhone XR now in stores, but official Apple cases nowhere to be seen – CNET

Apple teased clear cases for the colorful iPhone XR, but they’re absent on launch day. …read more Source:: CNet


Rebuilding an Amiga 500 PSU

On of the challenges of keeping a vintage computer up and running is the limited availability of spare parts. While not everything has hit dire levels of availability (not yet, anyway), it goes without saying that getting a replacement part for a 30+ year old computer is a bit harder than hitting up the local…


It’s OK, you can pick up real-time IoT analytics – it won’t bite… unless you ignore this advice

Your gentle first-steps to processing live information streaming from networked sensors Comment The Internet of Things is growing, and it feels unstoppable.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


FDA Approves First New Flu Drug In 20 Years

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: The Food & Drug Administration just announced that they had approved the aptly-named Xofluza, the first new antiviral drug in two decades, to help alleviate the symptoms of a flu infection. The reason Xofluza got a priority review from the FDA is that it works through…


Failing at Making Ferrofluid

[NileRed] admits that while ferrofluid has practical uses, he simply wanted to play with it and didn’t want to pay the high prices he found in Canada. A lot of the instructions he found were not for making a true ferrofluid. He set out to create the real thing, but he wasn’t entirely successful. You…