For almost two decades, Facebook or Meta has conjured up the social media space without having to share a big portion of human attention with anyone else. With different iterations, they have taken full advantage of the internet protocols to ensure that human interaction is at the fullest of its […]
Month: February 2023
Touch Watch – Top 5 Smartwatches in 2022
Many individuals are still unfamiliar with touch watch or popularly known as smartwatches. These can provide customers with instant connectivity, allow them to ignore or react to receiving messages while taking the device through your wallet, and even more. It must look beautiful, feel comfortable, have a selection of apps […]
The Device That Changed Everything
I was roaming around the IEEE Spectrum office a couple of months ago, looking at the display cases the IEEE History Center has installed in the corridor that runs along the conference rooms at 3 Park. They feature photos of illustrious engineers, plaques for IEEE milestones, and a handful of […]
Best USB charging hub 2022
Source: Steve Johnson @ Unsplash Best USB charging hub TechnoBuffalo 2022 A USB charging hub lets you plug in several devices to power up at once. Some plug directly into a wall outlet while others connect to your laptop. We looked at portable charging hubs and power strips that have […]
Don’t wait for spring to start cleaning up your Mac device
Spring is typically seen as a time of renewal – hence the tradition of spring cleaning. But when it comes to the tech you use every day, there’s no sense in waiting to tidy things up — especially when a one-year subscription to the CleanMyMac Optimization Tool is now more than 35% […]
ESP32 Projects From Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class
Northwestern University’s Embedded Electronics Class delivered a bumper crop of ESP-32 projects this year. The student teams recorded their progress on hackaday.io with project descriptions, logs, BOMs, diagrams, photos, and videos to share with other makers. While all utilized the web connection that the ESP32 offers some teams chose to […]
Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits
Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality. IBM has adopted the superconducting qubit road map of reaching a 1,121-qubit processor by 2023, leading to the expectation that 1,000 qubits with today’s […]
What Is Zearn — the Math Platform the Gates Foundation Is Betting Big On?
During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in math education. Falling behind in math can have long term consequences, since the subject can function as a gateway into STEM […]
Sydney-based Pathzero helps investors track their portfolios’ carbon emissions • TechCrunch
Financial institutions are waiting for the SEC and other regulators to pass rules about how to disclose emissions from their portfolio companies. Until then, many are following the standard set by the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). Pathzero helps them with a platform to exchange carbon information securely and […]
Cork’s Republic of Work to open new co-working hub in Tipperary
The new Republic of Work hub in Clonmel aims to ‘offer a much-needed solution to the growing flexible work issues’ being seen around Ireland. One of Cork’s popular co-working hubs, Republic of Work, is expanding with a new location in Co Tipperary. The company’s first co-working hub outside of Cork […]
An overview of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is a cloud computing platform for businesses. It provides integrated and multifunctional self-service tools in order to analyze and centralize data. It brings security and governance at the corporate level, all of which hosted on public, private and multi cloud deployments. CDP is the successor to […]
Successful End of NASA Moon Mission Shifts Attention to SpaceX
Suspended under parachutes, an astronaut capsule without astronauts made a gentle splash in the Pacific on Sunday, bringing NASA’s Artemis I moon mission to a close. The end of the uncrewed test flight coincided with the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17 on the moon, the last time […]