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Ted Fried has demonstrated the march of technological progress with a call-back to Intel's classic 8080 microprocessor — by emulating it on a low-cost, low-resource Microchip ATtiny85 microcontroller: the MicroCore Labs MCL8080+. "The MCL8080+ is an Intel 8080 emulator written in C which runs on the [Microchip] ATTiny85
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Vintage computing enthusiast and maker Dr. Scott M. Baker has given a classic Grid Compass laptop a new lease on life — and has even given it a voice, courtesy of a custom speech synthesizer add-on. "The Grid Compass has been on my most-wanted list for a while because it
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MNT Research, the company behind the MNT Reform family of open-hardware laptops and an upcoming tablet, has announced a plan to help address the increasing price of components including RAM chips and Arm processors: a "relatively low-cost" adapter to put a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) or
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Google has brought its AI Edge Gallery app to macOS, giving Mac users with Apple silicon a new way to run Gemini‑class Gemma models entirely on their machines. The app is said to offer privacy improvements over online Gemma access, as processing occurs locally, keeping prompts and responses on
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For centuries, Warrington was at the forefront of Britain’s soap-making industry Until a few years ago, a Unilever factory was its epicentre. As UK Prime Minster Keir Starmer told an audience at the opening of London Tech Week earlier today: Generations of local people worked there. Families built their
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So hot right now Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used? Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images It feels like there’s no escaping AI right now, whether you’re trying to type a sentence without being interrupted by a digital “assistant” or struggling to find a new
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* Meta confirms 20,225 Instagram accounts hit by HTS password‑reset flaw * Bug let attackers request resets to unassociated emails * HTS disabled, passwords reset, full recovery‑flow review underway Last week’s attack against Meta’s customer support affected just over 20,000 accounts, the company has now confirmed. Hackers
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Spoilers for Tip Toe episode 5 ahead — contains distressing themes. If you want to feel terrible about the world around you and simultaneously as though you've been hit with a sledgehammer, binge episodes 1-5 of Tip Toe in the same day (all of which are now streaming on
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Sponsor Posts Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access! Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale
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Mini cameras are in. So much so, that I recently rounded up 9 of the most eye catching models, which all cost under $50 / £45. But even at such as low price, are they still worth the money? I've already tested popular models such as the Kodak Charmera
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Rather than has folks on customer-facing or collaborative setups having to constantly swivel a monitor around for people on the other side of the desk, Philips has launched a dual-sided business monitor with a Full HD screen front and back. Most monitors are built around a simple assumption: one screen,
