Titan sub investigators blame OceanGate for safety lapses and say fatal disaster was ‘preventable’ - In a 2017 image, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is framed by the carbon-composite cy... -

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Titan sub investigators blame OceanGate for safety lapses and say fatal disaster was ‘preventable’

The panel investigating the loss of the Titan sub and its pilot and passengers in 2023 blamed the disaster on a long series of safety lapses.

#submersibles #coastguard #submarines #oceangate #titansub #titanic #tech

How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier - You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000 Before humanoid robots walk among us,... -

How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier

: You can build your own robot CHILD for under $1,000

Enthusiast spends 6 years building 'world's most impractical display' — 1,000-pixel wood panel uses a hacked-apart CNC machine to change a single pixel just 10 times a minute - An engineer spent six years crafting 'the world's most impr... -

Tom

Enthusiast spends 6 years building

Send an image to it now, via the web app. But be prepared for a wait.

#monitors

Real-Time Beamforming with Software-Defined Radio - It is perhaps humanity’s most defining trait that we are always striving to build ... -

Hackaday

Real-Time Beamforming With Software-Defined Radio

It is perhaps humanity’s most defining trait that we are always striving to build things better, stronger, faster, or bigger than that which ...

#software-definedradio #angleofarrival #adalm-pluto #beamforming #phasedarray #radiohacks #radio #sdr

Seagate's 26TB Expansion Desktop HDD has had its price slashed by $100 at Best Buy — now just $9.61 per TB - Seagate's 26TB Expansion Desktop HDD has had its price slas... -

Tom

Seagate

Aww shucks, this is one cost-effective way to get hold of a 26TB HDD for less.

#externalhdds #pccomponents #storage #hdds

Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust? - Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart In the beginn... -

Jeff Bezos

: Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart

Joby Will Buy Blade’s Helicopter Taxi Business for $125 Million - Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business... -

Electric Air Taxi Company Plans to Acquire a Helicopter Business

Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business of Blade, a New York helicopter operator, for $125 million.

#mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #federalaviationadministration #infrastructure(publicworks) #jobyaeroinc(jobyaviation) #airlinesandairplanes #militaryaircraft #stocksandbonds #manhattan(nyc) #bevirtjoeben #batteries

Bambu Lab introduces Kickstarter-like program for backing elaborate 3D printing projects — crowdfunding features added to the MakerWorld website - Bambu Lab ads Crowdfunding to support Maker World Designers... -

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Bambu Lab introduces Kickstarter-like program for backing elaborate 3D printing projects — crowdfunding features added to the MakerWorld website

The system will allow fans to support ambitious projects by their favorite designers.

#3dprinting

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban - The Australian government says the world-first ban is aimed at protecting youth from onli... -

YouTube to be part of Australia's youth social media ban

The Australian government says the world-first ban is aimed at protecting youth from online harm.

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big - From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, th... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/01/palantir-trump-defense-tech-ai-software/

DIY MP3 Player Inspired By The iPod - These days, the personal MP3 player has been largely replaced by the the smartphon... -

Hackaday

DIY MP3 Player Inspired By The IPod

These days, the personal MP3 player has been largely replaced by the the smartphone. However, [Justinas Petkauskas] still appreciates the iPod for ...

#digitalaudiohacks #mp3player #esp32 #ipod

Servers hated Mondays until techie quit quaffing coffee in their company - Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots On Call  Mornings are hard... -

Servers hated Mondays until techie quit coffee

On Call: Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots

Microsoft Joins $4 Trillion Club - Microsoft has reached a $4 trillion market cap, becoming only the second company t... -

Microsoft Joins $4 Trillion Club - Slashdot

Microsoft has reached a $4 trillion market cap, becoming only the second company to achieve this milestone. Investors drove the stock up 4.62% foll...

#microsoft

AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill - Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs Vercel ... -

AWS Lambda cost nightmare: Vercel claims it found a way out

: Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs

EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens - UK mobile network operators are already required to ensure only adults can access adult c... -

EE to launch phone plans which restrict internet for teens

UK mobile network operators are already required to ensure only adults can access adult content while using their network.

A Catholic AI app promises answers for the faithful. Can it succeed? - It’s like ChatGPT for Catholicism, but the only sources in this large language model are ... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2025/07/31/catholic-ai-magisterium-pope-leo/

2025 One Hertz Challenge: Drop the Beat (But Only at 60 BPM) - Mankind has been using water to mark the passage of time for thousands of years. F... -

Hackaday

2025 One Hertz Challenge: Drop The Beat (But Only At 60 BPM)

Mankind has been using water to mark the passage of time for thousands of years. From dripping stone pots in Ancient Egypt to the more mechanically...

#raspberrypipico #clockhacks #contests #rp2040 #water #drip

Chinese scientists develop infinitely recyclable 3D printer resin — can be broken down at the molecular level using a thermally reversible photo-click reaction - A team of scientists from Zhejiang University has developed... -

Tom

Chinese scientists tout infinitely recyclable 3D printer resin — can be broken down at the molecular level using a thermally reversible photo-click reaction

More printing, less waste!

#3dprinting

We spoke with Thingiverse about its new AI-driven ghost gun detection that eliminates designs for 3D printing - companies turn to AI to block production of ghost guns - Can AI prevent users from printing firearms? ... -

Tom

We spoke with Thingiverse about its new AI-driven ghost gun detection that eliminates designs for 3D printing - companies turn to AI to block production of ghost guns

Can AI prevent users from printing firearms?

#3dprinting

Study Finds 'Pressure Point' In the Gulf Could Drive Hurricane Strength - alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Driven by high temperatures in th... -

Study Finds

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Driven by high temperatures in the Gulf, Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified from a Category 3 to C...

#earth