In the movie Friends with Benefits, the character Jamie asks Dylan “why do I get the feeling this is the first real commitment you’ve ever made?” Dylan responds “It’s not. T-Mobile. Two years. And f*** do I regret that one!” The ongoing proceedings involving Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and lead prosecutor Nathan Wade […]
In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it was “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Last year the company went public with a valuation of $1 billion (via a SPAC). Seven months later it filed […]
Miniature painter and YouTuber Ninjon has a fantastic video looking at tools to use in hobby modeling and painting (and similar applications) that are not necessarily designed for that purpose. He covers everything from tattooist’s squirt bottles to manicurist’s vortex mixers to things like craft store wooden candle stick holders for holding minis for painting […]
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada’s national police force has disclosed that it recently faced a cyber attack targeting its networks. The federal body has started its criminal investigation into the matter as it works to determine the scope of the security breach. RCMP: No threat to safety and security of Canadians According to a CBC report, […]
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means breaking up the storage and computation […]
A delicate balance The helium we use today formed from the breakdown of radioactive materials millions of years ago and has been trapped in rocks below Earth’s surface ever since. Helium is usually extracted from these underground reservoirs along with natural gas, as John Mattill explained in an article from our January 1986 issue: “Helium […]
Whippet lightbox 6 Cura settings for the lithophane: Speed: Infill Speed: 45mm/s Outer Wall Speed: 30mm/s Inner Wall Speed: 30mm/s Top/Bottom Speed: 25mm/s Travel Speed: 90mm/sec Initial layer Speed: 18mm/s Initial Travel Speed (for the first 1-2 layers): 60mm/s Acceleration: Outer Wall: 300mm/s2 Inner Wall: 400mm/s2 Infill: 600mm/s2 First Layer: 800mm/s2 Print Acceleration(default): 600mm/s2 Other/Misc: […]
