Monocle is an open source augmented reality (AR) device designed to be clipped onto glasses. It uses Bluetooth, a 720p camera, and a micro OLED display, and costs $349.
Researchers from the University of Washington and Stanford University demonstrated a new radio transmitter that uses almost no power to switch the flow of electrons heated by random thermal noise on or off to an antenna.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a WiFi based human pose sensing system that can identify multiple people and their positions in a room using the phase and amplitude of the WiFi signal, filtered using machine learning models. The system can map the UV coordinates of body regions and is comparable to image based recognition systems.
Portable Secret is an encryption tool that uses the browser's inbuilt Web Cryptography APIs, allowing payloads to be encrypted and stored on any device without the need for dedicated encryption software.
Russ Mitchell in the LA Times tells the fascinating story of how Amazon AWS teamed up with the government of Ukraine to back up petabytes of data using suitcase size SSDs at the start of the war.
Puter is a free cloud desktop computer that gives you access to a terminal, text editor, drawing software, & development environment, among other apps, all in the browser.
Hourups is a collection of 165 free tech skills tutorials on YouTube that are grouped by skill and domain types, such as Python, Javascript, front-end dev, digital marketing, data analysis, communication, & devops.
Mastodon seems to be the leading alternative to those wanted to escape or hedge your bets against the new Elon-verse Twitter. Here are 10 handy tips on how to use Mastodon.
University of Surrey student Eleanor Mackintosh designed a 3D printed robot fish that can be used to collect microplastics in waterways. The robot named Gillbert won The Natural Robotics contest.
Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas has figured out how to unofficially piggyback on Starlink synchronisation sequences and repurpose them as a positioning system with 30 metre accuracy.
