Radioactive Tape Dispenser (1970s)

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This is a 3M Model C-15 Decor Scotch tape dispenser. It is slightly radioactive due to the thorium-containing monazite sand that was used as ballast. The brown sand, mixed with an epoxy resin, can be seen in the photograph above right where the rubber on the bottom of the dispenser has been pulled back. This […]

New Laser Could Cram GPS Alternative into a Shoebox

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26 Aug 2024 3 min read Charles Q. Choi is a Contributing Editor for IEEE Spectrum. Sandia National Laboratories scientist Jongmin Lee, left, Ashok Kodigala, right, and Michael Gehl prepare for an atom interferometry experiment. Craig Fritz Dramatically more sensitive motion sensors could help ships keep track of their positions at sea, even in rough […]

GUI Examples – Rye Language

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Rye started out focused on ‘backed development’ and ‘interactive use in console’ and it still is. But Go’s Fyne GUI library was just too tempting not to try to integrate. It’s easy to deploy, works on desktop and mobile platforms and keeps getting better. If the code below doesn’t always make sense to you, check […]

3D-Stacked CMOS Takes Moore’s Law to New Heights

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Perhaps the most far-reaching technological achievement over the last 50 years has been the steady march toward ever smaller transistors, fitting them more tightly together, and reducing their power consumption. And yet, ever since the two of us started our careers at Intel more than 20 years ago, we’ve been hearing the alarms that the […]

Malicious SHA-1 (2014)

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Malicious SHA-1 Summary    Authors    Details    Downloads    FAQ TL;DR: If the four 32-bit constants of SHA-1 can be modified, then exploitable collisions can be constructed. No need to panic, this doesn’t affect the original SHA-1. However, vendors and customers of products with custom cryptography will be interested. Summary This is the webpage […]

Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting

Late yesterday, I put up a post about how to get into colocation in about the crappiest way possible. I skipped a bunch of details just to get it out there. The inspiration was based on finding out just how many people have no idea that this business model even exists. I used to work […]

You can prevent your app from being removed

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You can still remove the app from Home Screen, but it is not uninstalled. These days, I am developing an alarm app called ‘SuperAlarm’. To ensure a user is awake, SuperAlarm can be turned off only after a user completes a mission(e.g., taking a picture of toothbrush, solving puzzles, keeping eyes open). The most frequent complaint […]

Maker Pipe – Structural Pipe Fittings for DIY Builders

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I was very satisfied with the product. It did exactly what I was hoping it would do. I built a rugged, durable collapsable duck blind on an 18 foot Lund Alaskan. Excellent product. I found out about this product on the Facebook page DIY duck boat and blind builders page. I highly recommend this product […]

EzAudio: Enhancing Text-to-Audio Generation with Efficient Diffusion Transformer

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1Johns Hopkins Unversity, Baltimore, MD, USA 2Tencent AI Lab, Bellevue, WA, USA *This work was done while J. Hai was an intern at Tencent AI lab, USA. EzAudio is an advanced text-to-audio (T2A) generation model that creates high-quality audio from text prompts. It sets a new standard for open-source T2A models by delivering fast, efficient, […]