Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Simple Games from a Simpler Time Modern video games are nothing short of amazing. My son and I were playing through the one of the latest Zeldas, which involve a mix of combat and puzzle-solving that’s …read more
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Spidery Drone Goes Near-invisible By Spinning Really, Really Fast Researchers demonstrate that something interesting happens when a small drone with a spindly airframe spins at a high speed: it very nearly turns invisible. The spidery device is shown mounted …rea...
Jul 18, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Why Bevel Is a Way Better iOS App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health “The Fitbit Air is a really nice wearable—it’s thin, unobtrusive, cheap. But its app, Google Health, has problems. It gives you paragraphs of AI-generated text multiple times a day as long as you h...
Jul 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Apple Music and Apple One subscription prices rise due to licensing costs Apple has raised Apple Music subscription prices in the United States and several other countries, citing rising music licensing costs. The Individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, up by $1, whi...
Jul 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net COSMIC Desktop 1.3 adds frosted glass style and GPU power monitoring COSMIC Desktop 1.3 introduces a major visual overhaul with an optional frosted glass style, adding translucent and blurred effects across panels, menus, application surfaces, the desktop overview, ...
Jul 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Roblox is launching an AI tool for creating games from prompts on mobile Roblox has introduced Build, a new AI powered game creation feature for its mobile app. Users can create basic games from text prompts without programming experience or a desktop device. The tool c...
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to he...
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol 3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] puts a few to the test, and came …read more
Jul 18, 2026 from It's FOSS Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions Here's my recommended list of GNOME extensions that might help you focus more on work and be (more) productive.
Jul 18, 2026 from Hackaday Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to …read...
Jul 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026 Accidental Umpires Edition Top Story AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register) Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, b...
Jul 18, 2026 from Jordi Villar Back to coffee I gave up coffee because I started losing my sight. I was getting visual migraines, auras that would creep in until I stopped seeing out of one eye for several minutes. It was terrifying the first ...
Jul 18, 2026 from Jordi Villar Back to coffee I gave up coffee because I started losing my sight. I was getting visual migraines, auras that would creep in until I stopped seeing out of one eye for several minutes. It was terrifying the first ...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of o...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday The BornHack 2026 Cyber Ægg Is A Badge With A Life Afterwards A problem facing the designers of event badges is this: what happens to the badge after the event? It’s one that designers have tried to solve in many ways with …read more
Jul 17, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Vital Signals’ New Ring Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Finger “Vital Signals thinks its Signal Ring is accurate enough to replace traditional blood pressure cuffs for the almost half of U.S. adults who live with high blood pressure. The new wearable is thicke...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google's NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, with expanded code execution & cross-app sync Google has renamed its AI research and note-taking tool, NotebookLM, to Gemini Notebook. This updated identity marks a shift toward deeper integration across the Google ecosystem. Gemini Notebook r...
Jul 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026 Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition Top Story TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware) I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona ap...
Jul 17, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Music platform Bandcamp adds artist-follow filtering and Subsonic API support in open beta Bandcamp has rolled out two notable updates to enhance how fans engage with music on its platform. The Discover results page now includes a filter that allows users to display only items from artis...
Jul 17, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 378: C Coders, Ceramic Printers, and Shadow Archives It’s a hot one at both microphones, as Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos wilt in the heat with ice lollies and freezer packs. But still, we persevered long enough to …read more
