Day: March 10, 2019

‘It’s like painting with atoms’… Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

And they may be injected into your body one day Video Millions of tiny moving robots, each as small as the width of an average human hair, can be crafted from a four-inch silicon wafer, according to new research.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Watch tons of micron-sized robots forming from a silicon wafer

They might be injected into your body one day Video Millions of tiny foldable robots, as small as the width of an average human hair, can be crafted from a four inch silicon wafer, according to new research.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Component Video For The Commodore 64

Of all the retro systems, the Commodore 64 had the best video system. The VIC-II chip in the C64 was the best example of why Commodore was the best, but in terms of video output, the C64 was still a consumer device: the only output was S-video, or composite video, or something like it. The…


Sleeper to Seattle: 39 hours on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight – CNET

What it’s like to go from Southern California to Washington state, 1,377 miles, as slowly as possible. …read more Source:: CNet


By the Coast Starlight: 39 hours from LA to Seattle – CNET

What it’s like to take Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Southern California to Seattle, Washington. …read more Source:: CNet


Nvidia RTX 2080 vs. GTX 1080: A next-gen gaming laptop showdown – CNET

The latest gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics take on a last-gen leader. …read more Source:: CNet


WWE Fastlane 2019: Start time, how to watch, full match card and more – CNET

WWE Fastlane is this weekend. Here’s every confirmed match and participant. …read more Source:: CNet


Bash Pipeline Puzzle: Green, Blue, or Blue Green?

[Marek Gibney] poses an interesting puzzle. What does the following bash command line print? ( echo red ; echo green 1>&2 ) | echo blue You’d like to think it prints three lines: red, green, and blue. But would you be surprised to find out that it can sometimes output “blue green” and sometimes just…


How Facebook Could Profit From Zuckerberg’s So-Called ‘Privacy’ Push

Saturday the Associated Press analyzed Mark Zuckerberg’s new vision for Facebook as an encrypted “privacy-focused communications platform.” [C]ritics say the announcement obscures Facebook’s deeper motivations: To expand lucrative new commercial services, continue monopolizing the attention of users, develop new data sources to track people and frustrate regulators who might be eyeing a breakup of the…


Come To The Hackaday Cambridge Mini Unconference!

Hackaday would like to invite you to a Mini Unconference on Saturday 16th of March, hosted by our friends at Cambridge Makespace, UK. One of our most successful engagements with our community over the years here at Hackaday has been the Unconference. A group of you our readers join us for a while and deliver…