AppleMagazine
US OFFICIALS SEEK TO CRACK DOWN ON HARMFUL AI PRODUCTS
The U.S. government will “not hesitate to crack down” on harmful business practices involving artificial intelligence, the head of the Federal Trade Commission warned in a message partly directed at the developers of widely-used AI tools such as ChatGPT.
2 min |
April 28, 2023
AppleMagazine
INFINITE BANKING HAS TIKTOK BUZZING, BUT IS IT FOR YOU?
Scroll through TikTok’s finance feed and you’ll come across viral videos on “infinite banking.” The concept is making a splash on social media, fueled by celebrities like rapper Waka Flocka Flame.
3 min |
April 28, 2023
AppleMagazine
CLIMATE SOLUTION: GREEN HYDROGEN COMPANY OHMIUM RAISES $250M
In what could prove a milestone for an industry that hopes to help address climate change, the Silicon Valley company Ohmium announced Wednesday it has raised $250 million to increase production of machines that can make clean hydrogen and displace fossil fuels.
3 min |
April 28, 2023
AppleMagazine
LITTLE RICHARD BIOPIC CELEBRATES A ROCK PIONEER
The king of rock ‘n’ roll didn’t die at Graceland in 1977. He died just three years ago in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and he never really got the crown he deserved.
3 min |
April 28, 2023
PCWorld
10 Awesomely Practical Tasks You Can Do With ChatGPT
Put this powerful chat-based AI to work.
7 min |
May 2023
WIRED
Who Watches the Watchers?
A tiny security blog went up against China's biggest surveillance camera companies and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
10+ min |
May 2023
MakerSpace
Playing old DOS games on the Raspberry Pi Retro Gamer
Play old DOS games on the Dosbian operating system, which turns the Raspberry Pi into an 80486 PC
6 min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Power your Pi Pico with solar Self-Sufficient
Powering your Pi Pico with solar may not solve the current energy crisis, but it will save you from changing or recharging batteries
4 min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Integrate hardware components with pluggable systems Plugged In
Ecosystems with pluggable Raspberry Pi modules, sensors, and displays are a great choice if you don’t want to – or can’t – solder but still want to extend your hardware
6 min |
MakerSpace #03
MakerSpace
Home Assistant makes the Raspberry Pi fit for the Z-Wave world Home Automaton
Z-Wave components, a RaZberry module, and the free Home Assistant software make the Raspberry Pi a powerful smart home control center
7 min |
MakerSpace #03
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 |