💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen? This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service. The block will expire shortly after those requests stop. In the meantime, solving the above CAPTCHA will let you continue to use our services.This traffic may have been sent by…
💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 1969 drum break Seven-inch single for "Amen, Brother" The Amen break is a drum break that has been widely sampled in popular music. It comes from the 1969 track "Amen, Brother" by the American soul group the Winstons, released as the B-side of the 1969 single "Color Him Father". The drum break lasts seven seconds and was performed by Gregory Coleman. With the rise of hip-hop in the 1980s, the Amen break was used in hits including "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A and "Keep It…
🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: TC,AI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “Everyone is on their phones on my show!” joked Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He just asked his audience to pull out their phones so he could walk them through the steps to disable Apple Intelligence and Gemini. Billy stands at the front of the children's library classroom - the focal point is the vibrant rug he stands on, which reminds us that M stands for 'moon' and Z stands for 'zebra'. But the 20 people in the room aren't here to learn…
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Project Reconecta installed eight rope bridges in a municipality in Brazil, and a 15-month study used camera traps to document thousands of arboreal wildlife adapting to new aerial crossings.Safe road passages enable seed dispersal and gene diversity, reversing the “domino effect” of biodiversity loss that begins when highways split habitats.Reconecta’s creator, biologist Fernanda Abra, a National Geographic Explorer and winner of the Whitley Award, is now expanding these low-cost conservation tools to other Brazilian biomes and neighboring Suriname.Brazil’s federal transport department has officially designated…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Weekend Project 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Best Amazon Kindle devices are reliably good at their main function: displaying e-books in a clear, easy-on-the-eye format. But Kindle e-readers are actually more versatile than you might imagine.If you've just upgraded to a new Kindle and are looking for something to do with your old device, or if you're simply interested in seeing how hackable these e-readers are, we have three projects you can try.These projects vary in difficulty and the amount of time and effort you'll have…
✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Why zippers?Users can customize how the fasteners look when they’re zipped up in CSAIL’s software program; they can select the length of each strip, as well as the direction and angle at which they’ll bend. They can also choose from one of four motion “primitives” to select how the zipper will appear when it’s zipped up: straight, bent (similar to an arch), coiled (resembling a spring), or twisted (looks like screws).The Y-zipper that results will appear to “shape-shift” in the real world. When unzipped, it…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Home,Vinyl Countdown ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: More than once, Leonardo triggered a generic error message pop-up without any explanation of how to fix the problem. You're forced to dismiss the message before doing anything else, which feels like hitting a dead end before trying to troubleshoot yourself or looking up the error code in Leonardo.Fortunately, the connection is very simple and smooth. The Romeo connects to your computer via Wi-Fi rather than Bluetooth, which seems like a minor detail until you wrestle with…
💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I treat “game feel” and “how the game treats you” as one continuum, and this manual walks it from 33 milliseconds to seven years.Swink called the sensation of controlling a digital object the most overlooked phenomenon in HCI, and the field mostly stopped reading at a hundred milliseconds. The sensation of being governed by a digital system (measured by it, priced by it, recognized by it over months) is the same phenomenon at longer exposure, and it gets even less credit. A hitstop and…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,AI,data centers,electrical grid ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A power line went down outside Washington, D.C., this week. Typically, the network will only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped drawing power almost simultaneously. The event caused a voltage spike across the PJM network from northern Virginia to Chicago, according to data collected by Ting Labs, a startup that runs an Internet of Things sensor network of people's electrical sockets. This event…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.The walkthrough describes how the Fedora ‘sausage’ is created as of Fedora 45, things change all the time; I hope to have time to update this document every cycle or every few cycles of Fedora releases so there’s both history and people can find up…