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Raspberry Pi SBC gets (analog and) digital radio HAT with AM, FM, DAB, DAB+, HD radio
Yesterday, I wrote about a 2-year-old open-source hardware ESP32-based DAB+ receiver project, but it turns out there’s also a digital radio project for the Raspberry Pi...
Read moreThe ill-advised business software that helped sink videogame pioneers Infocom now runs on modern PCs: ‘It’s a new age for aficionados of failed 1985 database products!’
The database app Cornerstone ended up being more of a cinderblock.
Read moreCourt Dismisses Pepperdine’s Nonsense Trademark Suit Against Netflix Over ‘Running Point’
A little over a year ago, we wrote about a fairly silly lawsuit filed against Netflix (and Warner Bros.) by Pepperdine University in California for trademark...
Read moreUSB, Abstracted
Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring...
Read moreNexon confirms reorganizaton at The First Berserker: Khazan developer but says it’s merely ‘a strategic reallocation of talent’ as development winds down
The shuffle is “not a workforce reduction or team dissolution,” Nexon says, it just needs the people elsewhere.
Read moreOrion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry but will require redesign
Apart from pesky issues with the spacecraft’s toilet and waste disposal system, most of the Artemis II mission has proceeded like clockwork. NASA has made few...
Read moreNine-year-old cult visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has been abruptly pulled from Android for its ‘depiction of sensitive themes’
Doki Doki Literature Club released on Google Play in December.
Read moreOpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical...
Read moreScientists Spot a Solar Flare With Surprising Spectral Behavior
On August 19, 2022, astronomers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on the Hawaiian island of Maui caught the fading remnants of a C-class...
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