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Use a Raspberry Pi to Power a Fancy Clock and Display Panel

Considering the Raspberry Pi’s a mini computer, it should come as no surprise one of the more common projects is a dashboard-style display . Over on GitHub, DIYer n0bel has a guide to turning the Pi into a smart clock. Read more…

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The New Star Trek TV Show Has a Title and a Starship: Discovery

Behold the U.S.S. Discovery, designation NCC-1031. What’s really cool is that it’s based on concept art the legendary Ralph McQuarrie did for the first Trek motion picture. See it in action in the show’s first teaser! Read more…

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What’s the Difference Between a $5000 Guitar and a $150 Guitar?

I think the moral of the story (to my peasant ears, at least) in comparing a $5000 Martin D-42 guitar vs a $150 Motion TD-107 guitar is that if you know how to play the guitar, you can make any damn thing with strings sound good. But if you have better ears for audio quality than me, listen to Paul Davids compare the two guitars and see if you can hear the difference in sound. And if you can, is it worth $4850? Read more…

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Someone Already Made a Kickass Torrents Clone

The game of whack-a-mole continues. Less than 24 hours after being taken down in an international sting operation , Kickass Torrents (KAT) is back—well, sort of. The popular torrent link site isoHunt has created a mirror for KAT at KickassTorrents.website . Read more…

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This Old ‘Computer For Grannies’ Video Is My New Favorite Movie

Remember 2001? Neither do I. But as best I can tell, it was a raucous time for people to get on the ‘net (that’s what people called the internet in olden times). And if you were confused about where to start, there were plenty of VHS tapes available to help navigate this brave new world—like Computer For Grannies , a bizarre artifact that I recently stumbled across at my local library. Read more…

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Record-Setting Hard Drive Writes Information One Atom At a Time

Researchers working in the Netherlands have developed an atomic-scale rewritable data-storage device capable of packing 500 terabits onto a single square inch. Incredibly, that’s enough to store every book written by humans on a surface the size of a postage stamp. Holy shit . Read more…

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