Best Gifts for Hikers, Backpackers, Outdoorsy People (2026) — Let them pick out their own hiking boots. Instead, try gifting a useful blade or a nature journal to delight your outdoorsy friend.
A new type of pixel — Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed pixels that can not only create images, but also analyse them. In the future, this could lead to the development of devices that function as camera and display at the same time.
Wikipedia for iOS just added a fun, new app widget for your Home Screen - 9to5Mac — If you’re anything like me, you can relate to spending way too much time going down the rabbit hole of...
Why People Hate Tech: A Response to Tech Entrepreneurship and Shifting Sentiment — I’ve been watching the shifting sentiments towards the tech industry for some while now, and it’s funny - they’ve shifted so much, and so quickly, that even people in the startup ends of the tech…
The Soundcore AeroFit 2 Pro are ANC and open earbuds — and they're at one of their lowest prices ever — The deal also applies to the newest colorway in the lineup.
A tale of two path separators — macOS allows both the slash and colon as path separators, and this caused me no small amount of confusion.
macOS 27: Two More Changes Leaked Ahead of WWDC Next Month — macOS 27 will have a "slight redesign" compared to macOS Tahoe, along with an option to automatically group tabs in Safari, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the design
I can't unsee the reason Pixel 11 Pro Fold is thinner, but it's for the best [Gallery] — The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is sneakily maybe the most impressive of Google’s new releases this week, but on picking...
Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more — The kernel's swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in secondary storage when [...]
xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab — xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
Vedanta Oil to Invest $5 Billion to Boost Output Fivefold — Vedanta Oil and Gas Ltd. will invest $5 billion to expand production by more than five times, underscoring India’s push to curb reliance on energy imports.
When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug — We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times
A Missed Opportunity | Beyond Borders | Mohammed Al-amawei | TEDxTaiz — A young man speaks in the voice of everyone who has never taken the stage before, talking about young people and the challenges they face, presenting an honest and realistic vision that inspires the…
Docker is no longer the best choice for homelabbers — There are a few alternatives worth trying out.
Google’s AI endgame is here… everything you missed at I/O 2026 — Try using Emergent's specialized agents in parallel to build any full-stack application - https://app.emergent.sh/?utm_shift=redirect&via=fireship At Google I/O 2026, Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis set out the ro
The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip — In 1980, Intel released the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, a chip that could make math up to 100 times faster. As well as arithmetic...
Winning War With Iran Requires Patience, Says Retired Army Brigadier General — Retired US Army Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said winning a war with Iran will require patience on the side of the United States because Iran follows a model of resistance and will consider the war…
An iroh powered smart fan — Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere.
China Targets US Rare Earths Firms in Response to Pentagon — Gracelin Baskaran, director of the critical minerals security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that while the US has made 'unprecedented' moves to invest billions of dollars in rare…
One of the Most Important Cookbooks of the 20th Century Is Celebrating 50 Years. What Made Its French Author So Special in American Kitchens? — With instructions and images explaining how to carve vegetables and deconstruct a lamb, "La Technique" by Jacques Pépin became a…
Trump pivots from 20 percent Strait of Hormuz fee amid Iran war escalation — Donald Trump backs away from fee, says regional countries will instead invest in US in return for transit protection.
How a Humanoid Made of Wood Sparked Today’s Most Dexterous Robot Hands — Shadow Walker’s creators went on to found a pioneering robotics company
FLUX 3 x mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models — FLUX 3 is running robots. Built with mimic and deployed at Audi, FLUX-mimic shows content creation and physical AI share one foundation: a model that understands the world.
Apple Developer app gains Liquid Glass design and WWDC 2026 iMessage stickers - 9to5Mac — There’s a new version of the multi-platform Apple Developer app out today ahead of WWDC 2026. Apple Developer version 11.0...
Apple Bought Color Grading Tool Color.io in January — Apple purchased a small, one-person company called Patchflyer back in January, according to new acquisition disclosures provided by the European Union. Patchflyer was owned by Jonathan Ochmann, who created Color.io, a web-base
‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected — Fairground TV is a 24/7 channel devoted to low-quality AI content for viewers sick of watching real people move in ways that won’t haunt you
Elon Musk’s SpaceX reports losses but less than expected — Revenue was up more than 90 percent from the same period a year ago, beating analyst expectations.
The Missing Bit | Moving to FreeBSD from Linux — Programmer chronicles.
GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum — GrapheneOS discussion forum
The Hidden Engineering of Runways — A few of the things I love about runways 🌌Get Nebula using my link for 50% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/Practical-Engineering 🚆Watch The Logistics of X: https://nebula.tv/thelogisticsofx?ref=practical-engineering Errata:
Oil surges to $100 per barrel. And, Trump imposes a new round of tariffs — Oil surged to $100 per barrel after Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea. And, President Trump overnight replaced expiring tariffs with a slew of new ones.
Entrepreneurship Beyond the Title | Morshed Shamsi | TEDxDarulaman — In a world where entrepreneurship is increasingly celebrated, many people are attracted to the title without fully understanding the challenges behind it. In this talk, Morshed Shamsi explores the realities of…
Legionella Bacteria Found in Cooling Tower at NYC Guggenheim — A spokesperson said there was no present danger to the public at the museum, which is located in one of three zip codes where people have contracted Legionnaires’ disease.
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment | TechCrunch — Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
Toyota's off-road-ready SUV has more than doubled its sales this year — A massive sales jump shows adventure-ready SUVs are more popular than ever.
Develop Physical AI Reasoning, World, and Action Models with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 | NVIDIA Technical Blog — Physical AI systems must understand the real world before they can act within it. Robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart spaces need to understand what’s happening in their worl
MacBook Neo Processor Benchmarks: A18 Pro CPU vs M1 and M4 — A18 Pro processor in the $599 MacBook Neo. Geekbench 6 scores 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, power draw, and thermal analysis.
BenQ TK705STi 4K Projector Review: A Midrange Pick for Gamers — The TK705STi’s highly responsive, low-latency performance makes gameplay ultra-realistic. For movies and TV? It’s a purely average home projector.
Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector - — Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector -
Taiwan Fund Profits 80% After Intervening to Blunt Trump Tariffs — Taiwan reported a roughly 80% profit from a nine-month-long intervention to support the island’s stock market following the Trump administration’s move to impose tariffs, though it has now exited its position.
Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents — We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
AI Doesn't Understand You | Nikita Gajbhiye | TEDxMoulsari Avenue — Artificial intelligence can recognize patterns, generate predictions, and outperform humans in many specialized tasks. But does it truly understand the world it analyzes? Drawing from real-world experiences in…
Traders Weigh Renewed US-Iran Strikes, SK Hynix Earnings | The Asia Trade 7/29/2026 — "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Sydney with Shery Ahn and Haidi…
Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises
Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users | Alex4D — After not seeming to have a clear go-to-market strategy for their creativity apps over the last 15 years… Apple are […]
NVIDIA data center hardware is being cooled with water 'hotter than a hot tub' — It may seem counterintuitive, but 113-degree water is still cool enough to cool NVIDA's latest hardware.
Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator — An oscillator so bad it's actually good. But seriously, it's still bad. But in a good way?
‘The dream I carried is gone’: Miscarriages rise amid trauma of Gaza’s war — At al-Awda Hospital, doctors say about 70% of pregnancy losses they see are linked to Israel's genocide and blockade.
How to sequence your own DNA at home — I have now sequenced my own genome 5 times with an Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION. This means collecting them from a swab, prepping them for sequencing, running them through a sequencer, then doing analysis over them.
Amazon Takes $30 Off AirPods 4 Models This Week — Amazon today has the AirPods 4 available for $99.00, down from $129.00. This is a second-best price on the AirPods 4, which is the base model without Active Noise Cancellation, and it's accompanied by a deal on the AirPods 4…
WAFCON 2026: All to know about Africa’s biggest women’s football tournament — Tournament format, venues, title favourites, groups, prize money and players to watch at the 2026 WAFCON in Morocco.
Casetify x Henri Matisse collection: Release date, price, and where to buy — Matisse's masterpieces, minus the museum trip.
Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages - AMD GPUOpen — Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense…
Jubilee Clock Tower Time Ball in Brighton, England — <p><img alt="" data-width="3264" data-height="2448" width="300" height="200" src="https://img.atlasobscura.com/cFL1SK0gUgONTU5ON_67NbMm2vu_QtNE2IKWmkXVBvs/rs:fill:300:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYucz…
Best Magic The Gathering deal: Marvel Super Heroes Play Booster Box has dropped below market price at Amazon — Roughly equal to only $4 per pack.
‘Back from the dead’: The continuing agony over Gaza’s 9,500 missing people — Palestinian's sudden return alive after family held his funeral highlights suffering of those still waiting for answers.
Microsoft Earnings, Apple Earnings — Microsoft unveils its new agentic business model, and Apple confronts shortages in memory and chips even as the Mac benefits from AI.
Multiple fires destroy homes and cause devastation in West Midlands — The region's fire chief says the service took thousands of 999 calls across "one of the most significant" incidents in its history.
This Beautiful 50mm f/1.1 Lens Is Based On An Ultra-Rare 'Masterpiece' — Beautiful, rare, and super soft.
Why Roads Get Washboards — The bizarre science of washboards on unpaved roads ⚙️ Check out SendCutSend for custom parts fabricated from your CAD: http://sendcutsend.com/practicalengineering The more we understand the physics of washboarding, the better we can engineer roads that