Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/08/apple-cuts-off-beeper-minis-access-after-launch-of-service-that-brought-imessage-to-android/
TechCrunch
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android
Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,
Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice https://github.com/elfvingralf/macOSpilot-ai-assistant
GitHub
GitHub - elfvingralf/macOSpilot-ai-assistant: Voice + Vision powered AI assistant that answers questions about any application…
Voice + Vision powered AI assistant that answers questions about any application, in context and in audio. - elfvingralf/macOSpilot-ai-assistant
Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/13/world/voyager-1-computer-issue-scn/index.html
CNN
Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth due to computer issue | CNN
NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.
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I bricked my Christmas lights https://www.whizzy.org/2023-12-14-bricked-xmas/
whizzy.org
Bricked Xmas
Reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers, or How I Bricked My Christmas Lights If a device communicates via Bluetooth LE and has an app, it deserves to be integrated into my home automation system. I’ve spent a significant amount of time reverse…
Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors https://spectrum.ieee.org/cfet-intel-samsung-tsmc
IEEE Spectrum
Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors
The Big Three can now all make CFETs—next stop on the Moore’s Law roadmap
More product, fewer product managers https://kitemaker.co/blog/more_product_fewer_pms
Kitemaker
Kitemaker blog - More product, fewer PMs
There has been a lot of discussion about how many Product Managers (PMs) are required in a product team. This conversation gained momentum after Airbnb restructured their product management organization, followed by articles about how startups are thriving…
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Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling https://www.geekwire.com/2023/hasbro-laying-off-wizards-of-the-coast-staff-is-baffling-and-could-lead-to-a-brain-drain/
GeekWire
Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling — and could lead to a brain drain
Wizards of the Coast was founded in Renton, Wash., in 1990. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A new round of layoffs at Hasbro has impacted its
Simulating fluids, fire, and smoke in real-time https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/fire.html
The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-1/bulgarianfrontier
Switchyard
The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier — Switchyard
By Dimiter Kenarov
ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv-now-offers-papers-in-html-format/
Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms https://varun.ch/server
The Art of Electronics (2015) https://artofelectronics.net/
The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition
by Horowitz and Hill
Show HN: An open-source, self-hostable synced narration platform for ebooks https://smoores.gitlab.io/storyteller/
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english-ever-have-a-formal-version-of-you
English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?
Off the top of my head, Danish "De" (practically never used), German "Sie", Chinese "您", French "vous", Spanish "usted" are formal ways of addressing
First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61106
www.eia.gov
First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
Energy Information Administration - EIA - Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
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3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/