2025-02-15
The Evolution of Electronic Music (1929-2019). Interesting that it took so long...
The Evolution of Electronic Music (1929-2019). Interesting that it took so long for electronic music to creep into pop music and now you can barely find any music that doesn’t...
Design, Manufacturing and Open-Loop Control of a Soft Pneumatic Arm: Bending Experiments
PAUL’s bending experiments reveal a maximum deflection of 40°, maintaining flexibility even with extra segments. Compared to 80° Pneunet robots, PAUL’s controlled flexibility ensures adaptability for navigating obstacles and cluttered...
Government Fires Specialists Without Realizing They Were in Charge of Nuclear Bombs, Then Panics and Tries to Rehire Them
Paging Dr. Strangelove We've all made mistakes before. Maybe we did something in the heat of the moment, or said something we couldn't take back. Point is, it happens, and...
Cool thing that I did not notice about The Wild Robot: at...
Cool thing that I did not notice about The Wild Robot: at first the robot was computer-generated but gets more and more hand-painted throughout the film. “She literally begins to...
Soft Robots and Smart Movement
PAUL’s table-based kinematic model achieved an average error of 4.27 mm for direct kinematics and 10.78 mm for inverse kinematics, with redundancy in inflation combinations introducing uncertainties. Data collection was...
Martin Pilkington, Longtime Stalwart of the Mac and Apple Developer Community, Dies From Cancer
Sad news, posted to his Mastodon account: Martin passed away yesterday, peacefully in his sleep. He was a true fighter until the bitter end but he is now pain free...
Proactive IT Career Growth: Take Control of Your Professional Journey
There are a lot of good articles about possible career tracks that you can pursue in IT. I haven’t seen many that might be used as actual guidance to move...
How a Soft Robot Arm Moves Using Air, Not Motors
The final PAUL configuration consists of three pneumatic segments instead of four, reducing redundancy issues and preventing tube stiffness, with a total height of 390 mm, an estimated weight of...
Elevate Your Night Shift Productivity Levels: 8 Strategies for Thriving - Not Just Surviving
The regular nine-to-five shift is the norm across many industries, especially in the corporate world. The night shift can spark plenty of employee turnover. How can night-shift workers reach their...
How to Scale AI Infrastructure With Kubernetes and Docker
Firms increasingly make use of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructures to host and manage autonomous workloads. Scalability ensures that AI systems can handle increasing workloads without any loss of performance. Organizations...
New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In...
New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In Person. “Early Mesopotamians created the first cuneiform tablets in 3200 BCE because they couldn’t bear the idea of...
Netflix Deeply Regrets Accidentally Making Netflix a Better Product for Its Customers
Joe Rosensteel: Netflix deeply regrets accidentally making Netflix a better product for its customers. It temporarily pushed out a change that let people see Netflix shows in the Apple TV...
Financial Times: ‘Is Corporate America Already Souring on Trump?’
Guy Chazan, Amanda Chu, and Joshua Franklin, reporting for the Financial Times (left-wing anti-capitalist fake-news ideologues): In private conversations, some Wall Street executives go much further. One senior investment banker...
Key Codes 2.2.2
Many Tricks: Key Codes displays information about the characters you type, as you type them into the log window. For each key, you’ll see its Unicode value, key code, and...
A Programmer's Guide to Game Design: The Major Ingredients You Should Know
Software developers spend their whole time with complicated problems, and they try to learn almost everything about algorithms, structures, frameworks, and blah-blah-Blah. While playing games and coffee have become stress-busters...
Scientists Detect Huge Radioactive "Anomaly" Under Pacific Ocean
Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Nature Communications,...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: No Startup Has Ever Failed Because it Didn’t Have a Blog (2/15/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 15, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
Animal Lovers Alarmed as Company Goes Dark After Putting Microchips in Tens of Thousands of Pets
It's standard practice in the veterinary field to microchip animals. So standard, in fact, that some 3.5 million pets in the US have little rice-sized chips in them, helping rescue...
Startup Adds Job Listing Specifically for AI Agents, With Horrible Salary
In the latest sign that AI is coming for all of our jobs, a tiny Y Combinator startup called Firecrawl went viral last week for posting a — very real...
Antarctica's Only Insect
This week: A tale of creative cryopreservation, Transylvania's 16th-century weather reports, and dancing turtles.
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