See How Nikon Made Its Lenses 60 Years Ago
PetaPixelby Jeremy Gray29d ago
Lens makers these days rely heavily on computers, advanced digital simulations, and extremely sophisticated glass-making and molding techniques.
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top 10%Forget Your 100-Hour RPGs, Action Games Are Having a Moment
Polygon.comby Giovanni Colantonio29d ago
Gaming is a trend-based medium. Often, when a hit game turns into a generational success story, you can see it shape the industry in real-time as studios try to copy its notes.
My browser was using 15GB of RAM until I changed these things
MakeUseOfby Pankil Shah29d ago
My laptop has 24GB of RAM, which is plenty for the work I do. I don’t run heavy software or edit videos. I mostly just write, research, and use my favorite apps inside the browser.
5 ways to turn your old Android phone or tablet into a 24/7 home dashboard
How-To Geekby Adam Davidson29d ago
If you have an old Android phone or tablet lying unused in a drawer, you're wasting its potential. Old devices can work really well as dashboards.
How to turn off Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features
Cult of Macby Ed Hardy29d ago
Although Apple is thrilled about the new Siri AI integrated into iOS 27, maybe artificial intelligence isn’t your thing. Fortunately, you can opt out of Apple’s new voice assistant.
Apple @ Work: Enterprise oassword management is still hard, and Dashlane's new Vault Enforcement aims to fix it - 9to5Mac
9to5Macby Bradley C29d ago
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional grade platform all the solutions...
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Lucas Ropek29d ago
Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and, when the metrics swing in their favor, stand out from competitors and advertise their...
4 cool projects you can do with Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi - Engadget
Engadgetby staff@engadget.com (Husain Parvez)29d ago
4 cool projects you can do with Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi From NFC movie cards to a washing machine that knows when it's done, Home Assistant gives a Pi plenty to do.
Google's Gemini AI carried out cyberattacks and guessed passwords
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The pros and cons of using noise cancelling headphones - Engadget
Engadgetby staff@engadget.com (Filipe Espósito)29d ago
The pros and cons of using noise cancelling headphones Active noise cancellation has plenty of benefits, but knowing when to turn it off matters.
10 Of The Coolest Japanese Gadgets You'll Almost Never See In The US - Engadget
Engadgetby staff@engadget.com (Courtney Holt)29d ago
10 Of The Coolest Japanese Gadgets You'll Almost Never See In The US Maybe even better than "As Seen on TV" items are those "As Seen in Japan."
Super-simple interface replaces a touchscreen with PVC and printer toner
New Atlasby Etiido Uko29d ago
Touchscreens are one of the most deceptively simple-looking technologies. A simple tap on a piece of glass can make countless things happen.
The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies
Gizmodoby Webb Wright29d ago
It seems like the only thing that Silicon Valley has been able to talk about in recent years is how glorious the future of humanity is going to be, thanks to artificial intelligence.
Someone got DOOM running on a pregnancy test, and that's just the start
MakeUseOfby Dipan Saha29d ago
The release of DOOM in 1993 revolutionized PC gaming, and its full source code followed a few years later.
3 design decisions from 1990s Linux that modern desktops still can't improve on
How-To Geekby Sydney Butler29d ago
Xerox PARC effectively created the paradigm of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) in the 1970s, with overlapping windows, icons, menus, and everything else a computer user today would easily...
The AI kill switch, explained: 'It's not too little, but it's probably too late'
US Top News and Analysisby Samantha Subin29d ago
So is artificial intelligence going to kill us all? The question has echoed around dinner tables and family group texts in recent days as AI doomerism has hit a fever pitch.
What Is AI Agent Memory? Short-Term, Long-Term, Episodic, and Semantic Memory Explained
Unite.AIby Jonas Reeve, Cognitive AI & AGI, AI Research Agent29d ago
AI agent memory is the system that stores, organizes, and retrieves information an agent may need beyond its immediate model response.
What causes a stuck pixel on your laptop and can it be fixed? - Engadget
Engadgetby staff@engadget.com (Deven McClure)29d ago
What causes a stuck pixel on your laptop and can it be fixed? If a pixel is stuck on a single color, all hope may not be lost.
John Wick as a DVD store operator, a roguelike take on Armored Core and other new indie games worth checking out - Engadget
Engadgetby staff@engadget.com (Kris Holt)29d ago
John Wick as a DVD store operator, a roguelike take on Armored Core and other new indie games worth checking out Plus, a deep dive into the wild Kingmakers.
‘Just cut the wires’: why UK conspiracy theorists are destroying traffic scanners
The Guardianby Esther Addley29d ago
At the top of an extendable ladder on a quiet street of Ilfracombe, in Devon, an older woman dressed smartly in cropped trousers, a red rain jacket and matching red socks is chopping at some wires...