Lately I’ve been learning to play guitar. I wanted to be able to try out a bunch of different pickups on my guitar, to get a feel for what sound I prefer.
Designing a guitar with hot-swappable pickups
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
I’m a huge fan of the transform property. Combining rotations, translations, and scalings is one of the easiest way to modify a shape of a UIView or a CALayer.
Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski
The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air. Despite their omnipresence in modern day, the operation of an engine may be cryptic.
Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?
If electric vehicles are ever going to fully supplant gas guzzlers on the world’s roads, they’re going to need an entirely new type of battery.
‘Brain-like device’ mimics human learning in major computing breakthrough
Scientists have developed a device modelled on the human brain that can learn by association in the same way as Pavlov’s dog. In the famous experiment, Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov conditioned a dog to associate a bell with food.
🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. Around 2009, Basecamp customer service representatives began keeping a list of names that they found funny.
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Tom & Jerry made 60fps using AI
Interpolated to 60fps using DAIN-APP v0.41 using mode 3 and manually removed every single duplicate frame. The video might be out of sync at times because I’m a very bad video editor. Let me know what you think of the interpolation though!
*Might not be viewable on mobile & might be monetized due t
The Interpreter
Correction appended. One morning last July, in the rain forest of northwestern Brazil, Dan Everett, an American linguistics professor, and I stepped from the pontoon of a Cessna floatplane onto the beach bordering the Maici River, a narrow, sharply meandering tributary of the Amazon.
Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud ❧ Current Affairs
A company called Coinbase has gone public, and Wall Street seems excited. Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange—it allows you to buy, store, and trade cryptocurrencies, which are invented kinds of alternative moneys.
Pentagon scientists invent a microchip which senses COVID-19 in your body before you show symptoms
Pentagon scientists reveal a microchip that senses COVID-19 in your body BEFORE you show symptoms and a filter that extracts the virus from blood Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which wil
Florida blueberry season is here, as is a new blueberry variety from the University of Florida
April is Florida blueberry season, a time to savor these sweet fruits from our very own soil. You can pick them yourself or buy them from the store or market. Recently, the University of Florida developed and released another tasty blueberry variety to add to the seasonal mix.
Watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkey play video games with his brain
Pager the nine-year-old macaque can now play Pong thanks to a Neuralink implanted in each side of his brain.
Boston Dynamics introduces ‘Stretch’, new warehouse worker robot
Stretch is the first robot for one task that the company has built, based on requests received from companies around the world, said Michael Perry, vice president of business development for Boston Dynamics.
Are we heading for a post-pandemic ‘Roaring 2020s,’ with parties and excess?
Before the celebrations begin, however, there probably will be some trepidation as people adjust to their newly restored freedom.
NFTs are a dangerous trap
Like most traps, they’re mysterious and then appealing and then it’s too late. An NFT is digital treasure chest, a status symbol and an apparent item of value.
Is Sergey Brin really building the world’s biggest aircraft? Here’s everything we know.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin loves airships. He loves them so much that his 2012 debut for Google Glass (RIP) involved a skydiving stunt where a team of jumpers leaped out of a zeppelin floating over downtown San Francisco.
Apple’s HomePod mini reportedly has a secret temperature and humidity sensor
Apple’s HomePod mini smart speaker has an as-yet-undisclosed temperature and humidity sensor in its casing, Bloomberg reports.
US has secret evidence of UFOs breaking sound barrier without a sonic boom
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reveals US has secret evidence of UFOs breaking sound barrier without a sonic boom and performing moves humans don’t have the technology for, ahead of bombshell real X Files report The U.S.
Declarative Design Tools
Design is a process of divergence and convergence. We receive a project brief, a set of constraints, and set about exploring all the ways to satisfy them.