It’s safe to say that hot-melt glue is a staple of the projects we see here at Hackaday. There won’t be many readers who don’t have a glue gun, and a blob of the sticky stuff will secure many a project. But it’s not so often we see it used as an integral component for…
Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don’t Know Why
schwit1 quotes Nature: Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth’s north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move….
Win* this LG 65-inch OLED TV – CNET
Celebrate the big game with this prize pack that includes a TV, a Chefman air fryer and $125 in CBS All Access gift cards. This giveaway ends Feb. 3. …read more Source:: CNet
DIY Guided Telescope Mount Tracks Like a Barn Door
Astrophotography is an expensive hobby. When assembling even a basic setup consisting of a telescope, camera, guiding equipment and mount, you can easily end up with several thousand dollars worth of gear. To reduce the monetary sting a little, [td0g] has come up with an innovative homebrew mount and guiding solution that could be assembled…
Ask Slashdot: Is Today’s Technology As Cool As You’d Predicted When You Were Young?
“How does the actual, purchaseable consumer technology available in 2019 compare to what you — back in the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s or ’90s — thought consumer technology might look like around the year 2020?” asks Slashdot reader dryriver. Is today’s consumer technology as advanced, inventive, groundbreaking and empowering as you imagined it would be 30,…
2020 Cadillac XT6 revealed ahead of the Detroit Auto Show – Roadshow
Caddy’s new three-row crossover is armed with a battery of hot new tech. …read more Source:: CNet
The Coco-Nutcracker
Coconut is a delicious and versatile food but if you’ve ever tried to open one you know they can be a hard nut to crack. Those of us who live in the tropics where they are common might reach for a machete, drill, or saw to open them, which is often a messy and sometimes…
Old People Can Produce As Many New Brain Cells As Teenagers
Long-time Slashdot reader Futurepower(R) shares this article about a newly-published study which counters previous theories that neurons stop developing after adolescence: Healthy men and women continue to produce new neurons throughout life, suggesting older people remain more cognitively and emotionally intact than previously believed, researchers found. For decades it was thought that adult brains were…
Should America Build a Virtual Border Wall? Or Just Crowdfund It…
As America’s government faces its longest-ever shutdown over the president’s demands for border wall funding, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has suggested “possible alternatives to a physical wall,” according to one Silicon Valley newspaper: Among the president’s justifications for a wall is to stop drugs from coming into the United States, so Pelosi proposed spending “hundreds…
Saudi teen who tweeted plight is granted asylum, arrives in Canada – CNET
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun lands in the country after fleeing her family and pleading for help on social media. …read more Source:: CNet
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