The variety of ways that people find to show the passage of time never ceases to amaze us. Just when you think you’ve seen them all, someone comes up with something new and unusual, like the concentric rings of this automated perpetual calendar. What we really like about the design that [tomatoskins] came up with…

An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: U.S. Navy submarines have spent years shadowing Russian warships, hoping to snap photographs of missile tests through the periscope. It is the stuff of Cold War legends, taking intelligence, skill, courage and patience. Now by pure chance, a commercial satellite flying 488 miles above the Earth has captured exactly that….

The opening weekend of the unprecedented 2020 season wraps up today with a full slate of games. …read more Source:: CNet

Hurry to Staples to score Apple’s top-rated wireless earbuds for $199. …read more Source:: CNet

“DNA is millions of times more efficient at storing data than your laptop’s magnetic hard drive,” reports Popular Mechanics. “Since DNA can store data far more densely than silicon, you could squeeze all of the data in the world inside just a few grams of it.” In a new paper published this week in the…

An anonymous reader quotes the New York Times: Polar bears could become nearly extinct by the end of the century as a result of shrinking sea ice in the Arctic if global warming continues unabated, scientists said Monday. Nearly all of the 19 subpopulations of polar bears, from the Beaufort Sea off Alaska to the…

Back in stock! Pay $39 a month for three years and the ProForm Studio Bike Pro is yours. Or get the same deal on an elliptical. …read more Source:: CNet

Tribit’s new StormBox Micro Bluetooth speaker stacks up well against Bose’s $100 SoundLink Micro. For a limited time it’s only $39 with a code. …read more Source:: CNet

This week’s pair of free games from Epic offers a little something for everyone. …read more Source:: CNet

Here at Hackaday we love all kinds of builds, and we celebrate anytime anyone puts parts together into something else. And while we love the quick and dirty builds, there’s just something about the fit and finish of this four-axis SMD stencil printer that really pushes our buttons. This build comes to us from [Phillip],…