MakerSpace
Water your plants with a Raspberry Pi Watering Pi
With a Pi Zero and a few components, you can build an inexpensive and reliable automatic watering system for your plants in next to no time
7 min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Raspberry Pi automated fish feeder Fish Food
Whether at work or on vacation, every pet lover worries about how to take care of their little roommates in their absence. What aquarium owners need is an automatic feeder
7 min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Get creative with the FLUX beamo laser and open source software Beam Me Up, Fluxy!
With the FLUX beamo laser and a Raspberry Pi Board B10001, you can execute your own laser cutting projects on a wide range of materials
10+ min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Shell Programming in Python Snake Shell
Create lightweight Raspberry Pi scripts with Xonsh, a Python shell that lets you write scripts in Python with Bash commands mixed in
4 min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Change internal logic from relays to an Arduino Redo
An electronic project at a local science center was showing its age, calling for a refresh: in this case, rebuilding it almost from scratch with an Arduino instead of relays
9 min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Access the Raspberry Pi's GPIO Pig Pen
The wiringPi library, which many Raspberry Pi fans have grown attached to over the years, is no longer under maintenance by its developer. An alternative, in the form of Pigpio, has arrived just in time
5 min |
MakerSpace #03
Techlife News
MOVIE THEATERS AND STREAMERS MAY END UP FRIENDS, AFTER ALL
After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at Amazon Studios threw them a curveball.
7 min |
Techlife News #599
Techlife News
A DIFFERENT KIND OF UNDERDOG STORY IN 'AIR'
The new movie “ Air “ is technically about a shoe. There is nothing especially extraordinary about this shoe.
3 min |
Techlife News #599
Techlife News
SPACEX GIANT ROCKET EXPLODES MINUTES AFTER LAUNCH FROM TEXAS
SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight Thursday and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
2 min |
Techlife News #599
Techlife News
CALIFORNIA RESEARCHERS ATTEMPT OCEAN CLIMATE SOLUTION
Atop a 100-foot barge tied up at the Port of Los Angeles, engineers have built a kind of floating laboratory to answer a simple question: Is there a way to cleanse seawater of carbon dioxide and then return it to the ocean so it can suck more of the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere to slow global warming?
5 min |
Techlife News #599
Techlife News
US INVESTS IN ALTERNATIVE SOLAR TECH, MORE SOLAR FOR RENTERS
The Biden administration announced more than $80 million in funding Thursday in a push to produce more solar panels in the U.S., make solar energy available to more people, and pursue superior alternatives to the ubiquitous sparkly panels made with silicon.
3 min |
Techlife News #599
AppleMagazine
US TAX BREAKS LURE EUROPEAN CLEAN TECH COMPANIES AS EU LAGS
Norwegian startup Freyr will first build batteries to power electric vehicles and store clean energy in a remote town near the Arctic Circle. Up next? An Atlanta suburb.
3 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
MONEY: HOW TO EASE YOUR KIDS INTO ESTATE PLANNING
When parents talk with their kids at the dinner table, estate planning probably doesn’t come up. But considering we aren’t immortal, it should. It’s worth having age-appropriate conversations to introduce children to the idea of estate planning.
3 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT AGREES TO BUY $50M FOXCONN PARCEL IN WISCONSIN
Microsoft has agreed to buy a $50 million parcel of land in southeastern Wisconsin meant for Foxconn after the world’s largest electronics manufacturer failed to fulfill grandiose promises to build a massive facility that would employ thousands of workers.
2 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
WHY ARE TEEN GIRLS IN CRISIS? IT'S NOT JUST SOCIAL MEDIA
Anxiety over academics. Post-lockdown malaise. Social media angst.
4 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
Seamless THE FUTURE OF THE MAC IN AN AI-LED WORLD
In a world where artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming an integral part of our lives, Macs are emerging as AI production stations for workflow, creative production, and personal entertainment, serving as a bridge between humans and computers for the next generation.
5 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
ONLINE GAMING CHATS HAVE LONG BEEN SPY RISK FOR US MILITARY
Step into a U.S. military recreation hall at a base almost anywhere in the world and you’re bound to see it: young troops immersed in the world of online games, using government-funded gaming machines or their own consoles.
3 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
ARE YOU A FACEBOOK USER? YOU COULD GET SOME SETTLEMENT CASH
Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay.
1 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
EU NEARS DEAL ON $47B LAW TO BOOST COMPUTER CHIP PRODUCTION
The European Union was closing in Tuesday on approval for a plan to ramp up semiconductor production as it seeks to wean itself off reliance on Asia for the tiny computer chips that control everything from cars to washing machines.
1 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
ELON MUSK SAYS HE'LL CREATE 'TRUTHGPT' TO COUNTER AI 'BIAS'
Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity — and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation.
3 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
SEE THE EVS ELIGIBLE FOR TAX CREDITS- AND WHY MOST AREN'T
Ten electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles will be eligible for a $7,500 U.S. tax credit, while another seven could get $3,750 under new federal rules.
3 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
NETFLIX SET TO EXPAND PASSWORD SHARING CRACKDOWN TO THE U.S.IN Q2 2023
Netflix announced in its Q1 2023 earnings report that it will be expanding its “paid sharing” plan, which targets password sharing, to more countries in the second quarter, including the United States.
1 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
VOLKSWAGEN UNVEILS ELECTRIC LUXURY SEDAN AT CHINA AUTO SHOW
Volkswagen unveiled an electric luxury sedan that promises a 700-kilometer (435-mile) battery range as global and Chinese automakers displayed their latest SUVs, sedans and muscle cars at the world’s biggest auto show this week.
4 min |
April 21, 2023
AppleMagazine
NAME-THAT-TUNE GAME HEARDLE DROPPED BY SPOTIFY AFTER A YEAR
Heardle, the name-that-tune game inspired by the Wordle craze, is being dropped by Spotify less than a year after the music-streaming giant acquired it.
1 min |
April 21, 2023
iPhone Life Magazine
5 quick ways to secure your iPhone
Keep your iPhone safe in record time
3 min |
Summer 2023
iPhone Life Magazine
10 Ways My Apple Watch Made Me a Better Person
Big lifestyle changes from a little wearable
6 min |
Summer 2023
AppleMagazine
Apple Inc. Bets Big on India as It Opens First Flagship Store
Apple Inc. opened its first flagship store in India in a much-anticipated launch Tuesday that highlights the company’s growing aspirations to expand in the country it also hopes to turn into a potential manufacturing hub.
3 min |
April 21, 2023
Techlife News
NEW STREAMING APP TO 'MAX' PROGRAMMING FROM HBO.DISCOVERY
Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled a streaming service Wednesday combining iconic HBO programming such as “The Sopranos” with a mix of unscripted TV series in a push to reap more subscribers from what so far has been a muddled media merger
3 min |
April 15, 2023
Techlife News
US WHOLESALE INFLATION PRESSURES EASED SHARPLY LAST MONTH
U.S. wholesale prices fell in March, a sign that inflationary pressures in the economy are easing more than a year after the Federal Reserve began aggressively raising interest rates
2 min |
April 15, 2023
Techlife News
AMAZON'S JASSY SAYS AI WILL BE A 'BIG DEAL' FOR COMPANY
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy signaled confidence that the company will get costs under control in his annual shareholder letter, where he also noted the tech giant was “spending heavily” on AI tools that have gained popularity in recent months
1 min |