Some say there’s no treasure quite as valuable as the almighty dollar. [Norbert Zare] likes alt-rock soundtracks on Youtube videos and robots obsessed with money, so set about building the latter. The project is fundamentally a simple one. A Raspberry Pi 3B+ is outfitted with a Pi Camera, and set up to control twin servo…

Why didn’t the European Union drop its annual observation of Daylight Saving Time? ABC News reports: [I]n 2018, the European Parliament voted to end the practice after a poll of 4.8 million Europeans showed overwhelming support for scrapping it. Critics of the ritual have pointed to scientific studies showing the negative physical and psychological effects…

If you are under a certain age, you might not know the initialism VTVM. It stands for vacuum tube voltmeter. At first glance, you might just think that was shorthand for “old voltmeter” but, in fact, a VTVM filled a vital role in the old days of measuring instruments. [The Radio Mechanic] takes us inside…

The iPhone 13 is new this year, but should you save money with Apple’s 2020 iPhone? …read more Source:: CNet

Tonight 70 countries around the world set their clocks back an hour — including most of the United States, Canada, the EU and the UK. Yet “The practice has drawn complaints about its disruptive effects on sleep and schedules,” reports UPI, adding that “The American Academy of Medicine has called for an end to Daylight…

UFC 268 was an absolute humdinger. Here are all the results… …read more Source:: CNet

Here at Hackaday we love projects that are so well-documented that you can spend days reading up on what the designer has achieved. [John Lonergan] didn’t disappoint when he designed the SPAM-1, an 8-bit CPU built from discrete logic gates. His detailed log contains a wealth of information on such things as designing opcodes, optimizing…

“A drone laden with explosives targeted the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Baghdad early on Sunday,” reports Reuters, “in what the Iraqi military called an attempted assassination, but said Kadhimi escaped unhurt.” The attack, which security sources said injured several members of Kadhimi’s personal protection, came after protests in the Iraqi capital…

Follow the action with round by round updates on one of the biggest UFC cards of 2021. …read more Source:: CNet

“Authorities were able to find a missing 16-year-old girl after she caught the attention of a driver by using hand gestures popularized on the social media platform TikTok,” reports NBC News: According to the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office in Kentucky, the girl was inside a silver-colored Toyota car when the driver saw her using hand…