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VHF Propagation: What Every RF Engineer Should Know
A practical educational guide to common and uncommon VHF propagation modes, covering thephysics, range implications, and real-world behaviors engineers need to understand. What Attendees will Learn Why “line of sight” fails as a practical VHF planning model. How refraction, refl…
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Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots
This article is brought to you by X Square Robot. Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has no such recipe. Robotics systems have long been assembled from separate percep…
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The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.
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Remember Musk’s Suit Alleging a Conspiracy Between Apple and OpenAI?
Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica back in August 2025: After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple’s “Must Have…
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Panasonic’s PV-460 Camcorder Stabilized Shaky Videos
If you grew up in the 1980s or ’90s, you likely remember shaky home video footage, taken with a handheld camcorder, of family gatherings, vacations, and other events. Camcorders combined a camera with a video recorder. They included a rechargeable battery, a slot for a videotape,…
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Apple’s Lawsuit Leaves OpenAI’s iPhone Rival in Limbo
Might be saving them from themselves.
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International tech
Chinese internet firms sign AI agent data protection pact
The China Internet Association released a self-regulatory pact on personal information protection for AI agents at a forum in Beijing, with Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Volcengine, and 27 other internet companies among the first signatories. The pact is aimed at standardizing how AI …
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Sperm whales dive to depths of nearly 2,250 metres on a single breath, their heads packed with a waxy oil called spermaceti that solidifies under cold pressure and helps them sink like a stone toward prey they hunt in total darkness
Sperm whales routinely dive nearly 2,250 metres on a single breath, using a head packed with waxy spermaceti oil that solidifies under cold and pressure to help drag them toward squid they hunt in total darkness.
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Vegetarians show creatine stores in muscle roughly 20-30% lower than meat-eaters, and supplementation closes that gap faster in them than in anyone else studied
Long-term vegetarians carry muscle creatine stores 20 to 30 percent below meat-eaters, and when both groups supplement at the same 5-gram dose, the vegetarian response is faster, larger, and more measurable across strength, sprint power, and cognitive tests.
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Zhipu AI founder outlines Touch High plan for AGI research
Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie told employees in an internal letter that the Chinese foundation model developer will launch a “Touch High” plan, focusing on AGI research rather than short-term commercialization, according to LatePost. Zhipu AI is the company behind the GLM series of l…
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ByteDance explores autonomous driving for unmanned logistics
ByteDance is exploring autonomous driving technology for unmanned logistics through the world model team under Seed, its AI research unit, according to Chinese media reports. The early-stage project is reportedly tied to Volcengine’s automotive industry line. ByteDance said its l…
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Across 1,252 people in 10 studies, researchers found that even a five-minute dose of green exercise lifted mood and self-esteem
How little time outdoors does it take to feel better? In 2010, two researchers at the University of Essex tried to answer this question. They pooled the results of 10 separate UK studies covering 1,252 people, then asked what sounds like an almost too-practical question: what is …
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Voltmeter-Based Floating Point Calculator Does It In Style
[lcamtuf] is not just a calculator superfan, but also a skilled builder. That much is evident in the fabulous  design of Calcumator 2000, an electromechanical calculator that uses voltmeter readouts …read more
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2026 Hackaday Supercon: Call for Proposals
We are absolutely stoked to announce that the Hackaday Superconference is taking place this year November 6th through 8th in glorious Pasadena California, and we want to see you there! …read more
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It’s A Spectrum, With An RP2350 ULA
There was a time in the early 1980s when it was common to see home made keyboards for 8-bit machines that came with membrane or rubber keyboards. Though we’ve seen …read more
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EP221: How Docker Works Under the Hood
A Docker container starts with a single command, but that command has to be turned into a running Linux process. Here is what actually happens.
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Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home
To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating the original RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control …read more
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How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
To understand what it actually takes to ship agents at that scale, we spoke with Marco Casalaina, VP of Products for Microsoft Core AI.
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The Death of Physical Media and the Real Challenges to Software Archiving
Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news that Sony will no longer manufacture physical game discs come …read more
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