Most ham radio operators will build an antenna of some sort when they first start listening or transmitting, whether it’s a simple dipole, a beam antenna like a Yagi, or …read more
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Hackaday Prize 2023: Tiny RC Aircraft Built Using Foam and ESP12
Once upon a time, a radio controlled plane was a hefty and complex thing. They required small nitro engines, support equipment, and relatively heavy RC electronics. Times have changed since …read more
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Red Hat’s 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup
For Red Hat’s 30th anniversary, North Carolina’s News & Observer newspaper ran a special four-part series of articles.
In the first article Red Hat co-founder Bob Young remembers Red Hat’s first big breakthrough: winning InfoWorld’s “OS of the Yea……
Six Months Later, Poker Player Garrett Adelstein Still Thinks He Was Cheated
In October professional poker player Garrett Adelstein lost to a relative newcomer. Last month 15,000 viewers tuned in for his first new public interview, Poker News reports. Adelstein “reiterated his confidence that he was cheated,” and said he will n……
Report: Apple’s AI and ‘Siri’ Efforts Hindered by Caution, Dysfunction
The Information reports:
Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the type of technology underlying ChatGPT… For Apple, there was only one problem: The engineers no longer worked t……
The World’s First Agricultural Right to Repair Law
Long time readers will know that occasionally we mix up our usual subject matter with a dash of farm equipment. Usually the yellow and green variants that come from John …read more
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Long-time Slashdot Reader Announces Open Source, Java-Based, Full-Stack Web Development Framework
Long-time software engineer Blake1024 (Slashdot reader #846,727) writes:
We are thrilled to announce the release of Kiss v2.0, a comprehensive, Java-based, open-source, full-stack web development framework… Kiss v2.0 provides an even more seamless, ……
84 Amazon Delivery Drivers Just Won a $30 an Hour Union Contract
CNBC reports that 84 Amazon delivery drivers at a California facility “joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union said Monday, in a win for labor organizers that have long sought to gain a foothold at the e-retailer.”
An anonymous ……
NASA Seeks ‘Citizen Scientists’ to Listen to Space Noises
“Earth’s magnetic environment is filled with a symphony of sound that we cannot hear,” NASA wrote this month. When solar winds approach earth, “it causes the magnetic field lines and plasma around Earth to vibrate like the plucked strings of a harp, pr……
Building a WiFi Picture Frame With an eInk Display
LCD photo frames never really caught on — by emitting light, they didn’t seamlessly blend in with a home’s decor in the way printed photos do. [Sprite_tm] decided to see …read more
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