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5 Quick And Easy Tips To Improve Your 3D Printer's Printing Quality

3D printers offer valuable solutions for household organization projects, but printing quality issues can derail entire endeavors. Common problems like poor layer adhesion, warping, and inconsistent extrusion often frustrate users and waste materials. Simple adjustments to bed leveling, temperature settings, print speed, filament quality, and regular maintenance can dramatically improve print results and ensure...

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Using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense

Raspberry Pi's stock price surged 90 percent this week after investors speculated the OpenClaw AI assistant would drive demand for the single-board computers as safer isolated devices to run the controversial software. However,...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Split Keyboards

Split keyboards separate left and right key halves to promote more natural hand positioning, reducing wrist strain and shoulder tension compared to traditional keyboards. While they offer significant ergonomic benefits, users...

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Rumor: Apple iPhone 18 Pro phones could be in line for new, improved selfie cameras

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max may feature upgraded 24-megapixel front-facing cameras when they launch in September, according to Chinese leaker WhyLab. This potential upgrade would improve upon the 18-megapixel...

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How Bell Labs Stored Binary Information on Memory Devices Back in 1959

Bell Labs engineers in 1959 developed Twistor memory to overcome limitations of existing storage systems like magnetic core memory, which erased data when read and had slow access times. The innovative Twistor used magnetic...

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Spritework on the Commodore 64

This guide teaches Commodore 64 sprite programming using the VIC-II chip, which manages 8 sprites through shape data, memory pointers, and configuration registers. Advanced raster interrupt techniques allow exceeding the 8-sprite...

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In World Without BlackBerry, Physical Keyboards on Phones Are Making a Comeback

Physical keyboards on phones are experiencing a revival as people increasingly use smartphones as primary computers and crave tactile typing experiences over touchscreens. Companies like Clicks offer keyboard cases that attach to...

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ajail: a basic jail for programs you don't completely trust

ajail is a simple 300-line Python tool that creates secure sandboxes for running untrusted programs by wrapping them in isolated environments using bubblewrap and chroot. The tool allows users to safely execute code within...

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Jony Ive's First OpenAI Device Will Be Smart Speaker With Camera, 2027 Launch Planned

OpenAI has partnered with former Apple designer Jony Ive to develop a smart speaker with an integrated camera, set to launch in February 2027 at a price between $200-$300. The device will feature facial recognition technology and...

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The Economics of 3D Printed Homes Are Surprisingly Horrible

4Dify built America's first 3D-printed neighborhood in California using $1.5 million concrete printers, creating five homes in 24 days each. However, the houses cost $375 per square foot, exceeding traditional construction prices.

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ESA set to use high-power lasers to prevent collisions in space

ESA is developing OMLET, a ground-based laser system that shoots high-power beams at space debris to alter their trajectories and prevent catastrophic satellite collisions.

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Massive performance boost: Raspberry Pi processor can be overclocked extremely well

The Raspberry Pi RP2350 can be overclocked from 150MHz to over 800MHz with proper cooling, achieving 5x performance increase but potentially reducing processor lifespan.

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Scientists may have seen a star collapse directly into a black hole without exploding first

Astronomers found a massive star in Andromeda Galaxy that brightened for two years, then disappeared—likely collapsing into a black hole without exploding as a supernova, challenging how we understand stellar death.

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Apple is reportedly considering red as the next premium color for its iPhones

Apple is testing red as the premium color for its next iPhone Pro models to boost Chinese sales, where red symbolizes luck and status.

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5 surprise products Samsung could unveil at Unpacked - including an ultra wide phone

Samsung smart glasses that have been secretly developed since late 2024 could finally make their debut at Unpacked 2026 next week, alongside the expected Galaxy S26 flagship phones. The tech giant has been quietly partnering with...

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Buzz, Woody, and Friends Take on Technology in New Toy Story 5 Trailer

Toy Story 5's new trailer reveals Buzz, Woody, and the gang facing their biggest challenge yet as eight-year-old Bonnie becomes obsessed with her tablet and tech gadgets, leaving traditional toys struggling for attention. The...

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Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgraded AI model that significantly improves reasoning capabilities for complex problem-solving tasks. The new model achieved a 77.1% score on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than doubling the...

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AI-generated passwords are surprisingly easy to crack, researchers find

Security researchers discovered that popular AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini create weak passwords despite appearing complex. These models produced highly predictable patterns, with Claude generating only 30 unique...

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Tesla engineers develop fitness tracker that reportedly records workouts more accurately than any other comparable device

Tesla engineers developed Fort, a 30-gram fitness tracker that automatically records workouts using heart rate and motion sensors. It tracks reps, monitors cardio and sleep, and offers seven-day battery life.

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Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced intense courtroom questioning about whether Instagram and Facebook are addictive and harmful to teens, with evidence showing he pushed to increase user app time by 12% despite earlier denying such...

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Current is a new RSS reader that’s more like a river than an inbox

Current is an RSS reader app that displays news as a flowing "river" instead of an inbox, letting articles naturally fade over time without unread counts for $9.99.

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Robots run up walls and perform martial arts in China's most-watched TV event

China's Spring Festival Gala featured humanoid robots performing martial arts routines, wall flips, and synchronized movements, transforming the nation's most-watched TV event into a showcase of industrial priorities. The...

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Drawing in 3D with the Logitech Muse for Apple Vision Pro is so much harder than I thought — and I never want to stop

The Logitech Muse ($130) is a Bluetooth stylus for Apple Vision Pro that enables precise 3D drawing in VR. It allows artists to create floating wireframes and spatial art beyond basic finger gestures.

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I tested Chrome's soon-to-be-released vertical tab feature, and it makes the browser so much better

Google is finally bringing vertical tabs to Chrome after years of the feature being available in other browsers, currently testing it in the unstable Canary version before general release in coming months. Vertical tabs display...

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