Summary Meridian Orrery uses an ESP32, 3D parts, magnets and motors to build a self-renewing desktop solar system. It uses the ESP32C3 and DS3231 RTC to calculate the planet positions offline after a one-time calibration. A clever 1:11 gear ratio…
I will go on record saying that the Oscars are my favorite award show in pop culture. To me, it’s like watching a championship game in sports. Even though I missed Michael B. Jordan winning Best Actor, you better believe…
T-Mobile has been offer SpaceX’s satellite-to-phone service Starlink Mobile, since last year. But according to T-Mobile’s CEO, usage has not been as high as the carrier had hoped. On Tuesday’s earnings call, Srini Gopalan talked about T-Mobile’s service, which it…
While much of the video game development process is kept relatively quiet and only known to the public through investigative reporting, some developers have shared their personal experiences and provided valuable insight over the years. One such game developer is…
Training AI reasoning models requires resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying on reinforcement learning techniques that provide sparse feedback. JD.com and researchers…
In my youth, I once worked as a waiter in a summer job Shoney’s. It’s an experience I don’t recommend. But it taught me two valuable things: 1) How not to drown in a puddle of shame while walking around…
There’s this guy called Nigel Richards, a professional Scrabble player from New Zealand, his brain is not like yours and mine. He becomes a world champion in languages he doesn’t like spanish language and french. His strategizing is, I think,…
The most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony in his lawsuit against OpenAI on Tuesday weren’t the charity he claimed was stolen from him (we all knew that). it was coming). It was about an old friend. Musk stated that…
TL; DR South Africa’s communications minister, Solly Malatsi, has withdrawn the country’s draft national AI policy after News24 discovered that at least 6 out of 67 academic citations were hallucinations created by artificial intelligence. The policy was approved by the…
Google Wallet is the latest first-party app to get a gradient icon, but this redesign is pretty subtle in the grand scheme of things. The overall rectangular design of the wallet has not changed, but the yellow card is now…
