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Rotman Lens: The 1963 Passive Beamformer That Steers Radar Without Phase Shifters

The Rotman lens is a passive RF component that lets a phased-array antenna aim multiple beams in different directions without any active phase shifters. Introdu

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StreetComplete turns OpenStreetMap gaps into bite-sized on-site quests

StreetComplete is a mobile surveyor app that lowers the barrier to contributing to OpenStreetMap. Rather than requiring users to learn a full-featured map edito

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Ternlight packs a text-embedding model into a 7 MB browser-ready WASM bundle

Ternlight is a compact text-embedding model that runs entirely client-side in the browser via WebAssembly, with no server calls or API keys. The full engine plu

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The Combo-Drug Grift: Why Your DayQuil Is Mostly Placebo at a 6,000% Markup

The over-the-counter cold and flu market is built on selling combination products where most active ingredients do nothing. A $15 bottle of DayQuil, for instanc

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The Future of AI Might Be Tiny: Small Models Win Where Networks Fail

When a counterfeit-drug scanner failed during a 2019 Cape Town demo because its AI model lived on a server 14,000 km away, founder Adebayo Alonge had his engine

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Two 'Chat Control' laws, not one: why the EU's message-scanning fight looks contradictory

The confusion around "Chat Control" comes from there being two separate EU proposals moving at once. Chat Control 1.0 was Regulation (EU) 2021/1232, a temporary

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Val Town's founder: code is worth learning even when LLMs write it for you

Steve Krouse, founder of the coding startup Val Town, concedes the point that "learn to code" has vanished as Silicon Valley's go-to advice — knowing a bit of J

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Windows' hidden Global Device ID helped the FBI unmask a Scattered Spider suspect

An unsealed U.S. cybercrime complaint has exposed a little-known Windows tracking mechanism called the Global Device Identifier (GDID) — a unique number Microso

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21 years into tech, an Aussie engineer finally earns a CS degree — online, after hours

A software engineer and ML practitioner with roughly 21 years of experience and no formal qualifications describes finishing a University of London Bachelor's i

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aitech-culture

AMD's $4k Ryzen AI Halo Mini-PC Bets on Bundled Software, Not New Silicon

AMD's Ryzen AI Halo is a compact mini-PC aimed at local AI development, built on the Zen 5 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (16 cores, 32 threads) with Radeon 8060S integrated

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Canada touts 'sovereign AI' while quietly running Palantir inside defence and policing

Ottawa's new 'AI for All' strategy casts the federal government as the 'strategic anchor customer' for homegrown Canadian AI, aiming to lift AI adoption among C

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Cannabis Tied to Sharply Higher Heart-Attack Risk, Even in Healthy Under-50s

Two new analyses presented around the American College of Cardiology's 2025 meeting strengthen the case that cannabis use raises cardiovascular risk. A retrospe

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