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Here’s what to look for during Apple’s Q1 2018 earnings call
Reading Time: 3 minutesApple (AAPL) is scheduled to announce its first quarter 2018 earnings on Feb. 1. And while the results for the period that ended Dec. 31 should prove positive, it’s the iPhone maker’s guidance estimates for the second quarter that has Wall Street on tenterhooks. “We expect December results to easily beat guidance…
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Add an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdd an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router Arduino Team — January 30th, 2018 In order to get a good cut with a CNC router, the cutting tool speed needs to be properly set. Since his CNC didn’t come with RPM feedback, Troy Barbour came up with his own solution using an Arduino…
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'Shadow of the Colossus' review: One of the best games ever made is reborn
Reading Time: 7 minutes‘Shadow of the Colossus’ is one of the most beautiful games ever made. More “Shadow of the Colossus” is regarded as one of the most beautiful video games ever made. When it was released in October 2005 for Sony’s (SNE) PlayStation 2, the game’s striking visuals, incredible sense of scale and simple,…
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Dotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While largely supplanted by more modern forms of printing, dot matrix printers still have their fans. Few, however, are more dedicated than Nikodem Bartnik, who constructed his own model that pulls paper up to 55cm wide and as long…
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Fall asleep with the help of LEDs and an Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesFall asleep with the help of LEDs and an Arduino Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While some fall asleep nearly immediately with no assistance, others need the drone of a fan or a dedicated noisemaker to help them relax. The Fall Asleep Device, also known as “FADing,” by Youz takes a…
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Goldman tells its richest clients why 'FANG' stocks aren't really driving the rally
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe role of the “FAANG” and “FAAMG” stocks have played in the rally is much more muted that investors might think, according to Goldman Sachs. “In addition to the misconception that this rally has been driven by easy money, irrational exuberance or the impact of Trump administration politics, we believe that there…
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Facebook, Airbnb and HP talk about the future of AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesLeaders in tech discussed the future of artificial intelligence, or AI, at a panel late on Wednesday in San Francisco, Calif. From left to right: Airbnb VP of Engineering Mike Curtis, Facebook Director of Applied Machine Learning Joaquin Candela, Head of HP Tech Ventures Andrew Bolwell, Pinterest SVP of Engineering Li Fan,…
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Starbucks' Schultz: Blockchain and digital currencies are bringing us into a new age
Reading Time: 3 minutesStarbucks (SBUX) executive chairman Howard Schultz has been saying that retail was going to witness “a seismic change” in consumer behavior because of technology, most notably the Amazon effect and the explosion of e-commerce. “I think if you look at the history of our public life, one of the I think real…
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George Soros says Facebook and Google's 'days are numbered'
Reading Time: 4 minutesBusiness magnate George Soros in London, Britain, June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor More Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros slammed Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL), two companies he’s invested in recently, noting that “the rise and monopolistic behavior” of tech platform companies has become a “global problem.” Speaking at the World Economic…
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Create a custom Kerbal Space Program cockpit with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate a custom Kerbal Space Program cockpit with Arduino Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 When you play a video game, the controls are normally a compromise between what you have available (a keyboard/mouse) and the actions you’re trying to convey. This, however, wasn’t good enough for Kerbal Space Program enthusiast…
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Cisco CEO: Repatriation was the most important part of tax reform
Reading Time: 2 minutesCisco Systems (CSCO) CEO Chuck Robbins said that repatriation of foreign earnings is the most important part of the newly passed tax reform. “We were very pleased to see tax reform get passed,” Robbins told Yahoo Finance’s Andy Serwer and Jen Rogers at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “It was impressive…
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Crawl through a 1D LED dungeon with TWANG!
Reading Time: 2 minutesCrawl through a 1D LED dungeon with TWANG! Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 While video games have grown more and more complex over the last few decades, TWANG takes things in the opposite direction as an Arduino Mega-based 1D dungeon crawler consisting of an RGB LED strip. The player—a dot—is controlled via an…
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Arduino Create plans for education now available!
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Create plans for education now available! Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 Today, we’re excited to announce that Arduino Create is now available for schools with Chrome OS devices in their classrooms. With Arduino Create, students and teachers will be able to tinker with Arduino hardware and programming in a collaborative,…
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Tech jobs top Best Jobs in America list, once again
Reading Time: 3 minutesTech jobs once again took the top two spots on Glassdoor’s Best Jobs in America for 2018 list. More As if you needed more evidence that technology isn’t just an industry confined to Silicon Valley, job site Glassdoor revealed its 50 Best Jobs in America for 2018, and unsurprisingly, tech jobs once again snagged…
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How a gang of crooks hijacked your web browser
Reading Time: 4 minutesForce-redirect ads like this one can be used to get you to download malware or pay ransom to criminals. More If you’ve had a “forced-redirect” ad hijack your web browsing today and wanted to curse out some of the cretins responsible by name, you can now do so. And the name is…
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After his year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly talks tech, rashes, and science deniers
Reading Time: 7 minutesA couple of years ago, I got one of the juiciest TV assignments ever: To interview NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who was just about to lift off into space for a year aboard the International Space Station. That’s by far the longest any American has ever spent continuously in space. The idea…
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This Arduino infinity mirror lights up to music
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Arduino infinity mirror lights up to music Arduino Team — January 23rd, 2018 Infinity mirrors, which make light appear to stretch to infinity by bouncing light between two mirrors, are incredible to observe. Hacker “Evocate” decided to go the extra mile and not only illuminate the inside of his mirror…
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Twitter needs to do a better job of explaining how we got duped by Russia
Reading Time: 4 minutesAt least 677,774 people in the United States followed, retweeted or liked content distributed by Russian government-linked Twitter accounts in a 10-week span prior to the 2016 U.S. election, Twitter announced Friday. More Twitter (TWTR), on Friday, announced that it has begun reaching out to users who followed, retweeted or liked tweets…
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Consumers lost $19.4 billion to cybercriminals in 2017
Reading Time: 3 minutesFILE PHOTO: The Symantec booth is seen during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on August 3, 2016. REUTERS/David Becker/File Photo More Millennials may be the most connected generation yet, but that doesn’t mean they’re the smartest when it comes to keeping their data safe. According to…
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What you need to know about the government's renewed surveillance law
Reading Time: 4 minutesFILE PHOTO: A man is silhouetted near logo of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in this photo illustration taken in Sarajevo March 11, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo More The recently renewed foreign-intelligence surveillance law has privacy advocates spooked — not for what it would do to people from other countries, but…
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Make an interactive coffee table with Arduino and LEDs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake an interactive coffee table with Arduino and LEDs Arduino Team — January 22nd, 2018 Rather than buying a coffee table, Marija from Creativity Hero decided to build her own, adding an array of 45 programmable LEDs on top of a pine base. An Arduino Mega is used to take input from…
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You'd be stupid to turn off Apple's iPhone performance limiter
Reading Time: 4 minutesApple will soon release an update that let’s you disable its performance limiter, but using it is a bad call. More Apple (AAPL) might be on its way to being history’s first $1 trillion company, but it’s been dealing with a public relations nightmare since it announced last month that it was…
