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" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/social_media_warning_28murthy-image-superJumbo_cropped.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/social_media_warning_28murthy-image-superJumbo_cropped.jpg?w=800">The term ‘Social Media’ may give off a benign vibe, suggesting that it’s a friendly place where everyone is welcome to be themselves, yet reality has borne out that it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/17/the-us-surgeon-generals-case-for-a-warning-label-on-social-media/)

A Brief Look Inside a Homebrew Digital Sampler from 1979
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While we generally prefer to bring our readers as much information about a project as possible, sometimes we just have to go with what we see. That generally happens with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/17/a-brief-look-inside-a-homebrew-digital-sampler-from-1979/)

McDonald’s Terminates Its Drive-Through Ordering AI Assistant
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McDonald’s recently announced that it will be scrapping the voice-assistant which it has installed at over 100 of its drive-throughs after a two-year trial run. In the email that was …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/18/mcdonalds-terminates-its-drive-through-ordering-via-ai-assistant/)

TDK Claims Solid State Battery with 100X Energy Density
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Regulations surrounding disposable batteries have accelerated a quiet race to replace coin cells, which on the whole are not readily rechargeable. TDK produces solid-state batteries and has announced a new …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/18/tdk-claims-solid-state-battery-with-100x-energy-density/)

Design Review: Switching Regulator Edition
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This article was prompted by a friend of mine asking for help on a board with an ESP32 heart. The board outputs 2.1 V instead of 3.3 V, and it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/18/design-review-switching-regulator-edition/)

The Guinness Brewery Invented One of Science’s Most Important Statistical Tools
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The Guinness brewery has a long history of innovation, but did you know that it was the birthplace of the t-test? A t-test is usually what underpins a declaration of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/18/the-guinness-brewery-invented-one-of-sciences-most-important-statistical-tools/)

Recovering An Agilent 2000a/3000a Oscilloscope With Corrupt Firmware NAND Flash
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Everyone knows that you can never purchase enough projects off EBay, lest boredom might inadvertently strike. That’s why [Anthony Kouttron] got his mitts on an Agilent DSO-X 2014A digital oscilloscope that …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/18/recovering-an-agilent-2000a-3000a-oscilloscope-with-corrupt-firmware-nand-flash/)

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J Satellite Takes Up-Close Photo of Discarded Rocket Stage
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Although there is a lot of space in Earth orbit, there are also some seriously big man-made objects in those orbits, some of which have been there for decades. As …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/06/18/astroscales-adras-j-satellite-takes-up-close-photo-of-discarded-rocket-stage/)