Jul 10, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Android is open source, but your phone isn’t—here’s why Google locked it down “Android has come to dominate the global smartphone marketplace, and a large part of why this has happened is thanks to its open-source nature. Any phone maker can put Android on its phones with no...
Jul 10, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google Earth Pro desktop app won't be available for new downloads starting June 25, 2027 Google has announced that the legacy Google Earth Pro desktop app will not be available for new downloads starting June 25, 2027. Existing users can continue using the desktop application beyond th...
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday Browser-Based Image Inpainting Runs Locally, If One Doesn’t Mind A Big Download [Simon Willison] ported the Moebuis 0.2B image inpainting model to run locally in a web browser. The web tool simply requires a user to provide an image, mark a section …read more
Jul 10, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net FL Studio 2026 brings rebuilt FLEX, FL Cloud project storage, and new Transmitter plugin FL Studio 2026 is now available for Mac, Windows, and mobile users, introducing a series of major changes to the digital audio workstation. The update brings a completely rebuilt FLEX plugin, with ...
Jul 10, 2026 from Kev Quirk Extinct ExtinctAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 2018Rating: ★★★★☆The end of the world has been avoided—for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced fo...
Jul 10, 2026 from Kev Quirk 📝 2026-07-10 09:19: I have just eaten a GIANT bowl of granola, fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, and home... I have just eaten a GIANT bowl of granola, fresh fruit, Greek yoghurt, and home grown honey (by one of our neighbours). I have zero regrets, but I may skip lunch today. 🤣 Thanks for reading this po...
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday A Super Cheap Desk Toy Becomes a Hackable Desktop Notifier The GeekMagic SmallTV is as its name suggests, a tiny, vaguely TV-styled, device with a screen, that’s sold as a desktop notifier. Depending on the firmware running on the device …read more
Jul 10, 2026 from It's FOSS Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable Cinnamon will fully support both X11 and Wayland sessions starting with Mint's next release, due Christmas.
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday Three Different Digital Counters To Remind Us How Good We Have It Integrated electronic modules like counters and displays are convenient and space-saving, which may also make them easy to take for granted. [Nagy Krisztián] demonstrates this by making three very ...
Jul 10, 2026 from Hackaday Mechanosynthesis of Atomic Carbon Structures Using Inverted-Mode STM Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product. Direct mechanical manipulation coul...
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday Radio-Gaga is a Toddler Friendly Remote In a Radio Humans of all ages like music, but you can’t exactly pass a toddler the aux cable. That’s not to say the younger set don’t have their own particular tastes– they …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ByteDance introduces Seedream 5.0 Pro, its new advanced multimodal image creation model ByteDance has launched Seedream 5.0 Pro, a new multimodal image creation model that, according to the company, is more focused on production design than simple prompt based generation. The release ...
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Notion launches a new standalone iOS app for chatting with custom AI agents on the go Notion has launched Notion Agents, a new standalone iOS app built as a dedicated hub for custom AI agents. Unlike Notion’s main notetaking app, it focuses on agent-based interactions, allowing user...
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net TypeScript 7.0 launches with Go-based compiler and up to 12x faster performance Microsoft has introduced TypeScript 7.0, a major release centered on a full compiler rewrite in Go. The update replaces the previous JavaScript and TypeScript based implementation, allowing TypeScr...
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday Overpowered RC car + Gimbal Cam = The Greatest Chase Vehicle We’ve Ever Seen Modern cinema relies very heavily on quadrotor drones, because they make for very smooth, very easy to position platforms. From slow pans to chase shots, drones are great– if your …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 9 July 2026 Tanuki And Kitsune Go To Market Edition Top Story John Deere tractor owners and third party repair centers have been granted the same ability to repair the devices as the company's own service tech...
Jul 09, 2026 from Hackaday Reviving Mystery Nintendo 64 Game Cartridge Found in the Woods As far as things go that you are likely to find during a relaxing walk in the forest, Nintendo 64 game cartridges probably do not rank high on that list. …read more
Jul 09, 2026 from Thejesh GN SIR Online: Everything Is Difficult by Design I did SIR enumeration online. The application seems to have been written by someone who hates users and doesn’t want them to get the work done1. I have had the same EPIC number since 2002, and it i...
Jul 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net xAI debuts Grok 4.5 with faster coding, agentic tasks, advanced reasoning, and lower costs xAI has launched Grok 4.5, its latest generative AI model, now available on X, the web, and iOS and Android apps. According to the company, Grok 4.5 is its smartest model so far, built for complex ...
Jul 09, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds “Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your mood. The patent’s stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that makes...
