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ArduinoOS (2017)

To get the uptime of the operating system use getElapsedMilliseconds or getElapsedTicks . Locks In order to keep your application thread safe you can use locks. With locks you can prevent an other thread to access a variable, function, ... in an unsafe state. Example for conflicting threads: void mainThread () { InitTask (thread2); while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread1 " ); } } void thread2 () { while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread2 " ); } } If you execute this code you will n

Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript

Topics: #development Client-side rendering has become the dominant paradigm for building web apps. But frameworks like React can lead to major JavaScript execution bottlenecks during page load. For many web developers there’s a clear solution for this: Ship less JavaScript to the browser. Whether websites have to work without any JavaScript at all is a question almost as old as the web itself. By now, the answer is clear: No, they don’t. It’s firmly established that websites should be more tha

Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 Review: The Only Earbuds You Want on an Airplane

How much do you value quiet? I’m not trying to get profound here—this is a gadget review, not a self-help seminar—but it’s a question worth asking. Personally, I find quiet to be pretty important. Nothing says loving myself like putting on a pair of earbuds and telling the entirety of New York City to kindly, f**k off. And for that peace of mind, you have a lot of earbuds at your disposal. Any pair worth its weight in plastic will have the option for ANC nowadays. But just because they all have

‘Star Wars: Visions’ Season 3 Puts a Stormtrooper on Death’s Door

Over its currently two-season run, Star Wars: Visions has shown audiences the adventures of Force users, droids, and rebels. One viewpoint we’ve not seen much of is the Imperial forces, despite their repeatedly turning up in the show’s various shorts—but that’s changing with the new season, and things will get pretty cerebral. During this weekend’s Anime NYC, panelists got a look at “Black,” a short for the next set of episodes dropping in October. Developed by david production (Fire Force), th

Best Innerspring Mattress in 2025

All online brands offer a free trial, free shipping and a warranty, but some brands are more generous with their policies than others. Motion isolation, edge support and temperature are important features for couples or people who sleep hot to consider. Hot sleepers should consider a mattress that boasts special cooling features. Couples want minimal motion transfer and a strong, supportive bed perimeter. Hybrid mattresses tend to be best for people who want extra support and durability. Sleep

Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the relief of cool air, these contraptions also create the conditions for dangerous bacteria to multiply and spread. One particularly nasty bacteria-borne illness is currently spreading in New York City using t

Best Hair Dryer: Rigorous Testing in Real Apartments (2025)

Compare Top 7 Hair Dryers Product Weight Wattage Settings Attachments Price Dyson Supersonic Nural 1.8 pounds 1600 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Wave + curl diffuser, styling concentrator, gentle air attachment, wide tooth comb, and flyaway attachment $500 Conair SmoothWrap InfinitiPro 2.12 pounds 1,875 watts 3 heat; 2 speed Diffuser and concentrator $71 Dyson Supersonic r 0.7 pounds 1,700 watts 4 heat; 3 speed Diffuser, wide-tooth comb, professional concentrator, airflow attachment, and flyaway smooth

Bose’s compact TV Speaker is more than $100 off right now

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’re looking to upgrade your movie night, a soundbar is an easy way to beef up the audio. While there are some high-priced options out there, you don’t have to spend a lot to actually hear a movie’s dialog. Right now, the Bose TV Speaker is down to $163.45 (about $115 off) at Amazon, the lowest price we’ve seen yet. The Bose TV Speaker is a solid starter soundbar that can easily integrate into existing

Worried about AI's soaring energy needs? Avoiding chatbots won't help - but 3 things could

Overearth/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways AI investment is driving up energy demands and impacting local grids. AI energy use must be considered relative to tech's energy demands overall. Businesses and individuals have several options for managing their AI footprint. AI feels inescapable. It's everywhere: Your smartphone, Google, even your work tools. AI features promise to make life easier and more productive, but what does all this new tech mean for the

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Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

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WebR – R in the Browser

WebR - R in the Browser WebR is a version of the statistical language R compiled for the browser and Node.js using WebAssembly, via Emscripten. WebR makes it possible to run R code in the browser without the need for an R server to execute the code: the R interpreter runs directly on the user’s machine. Several R packages have also been ported for use with webR, and can be loaded in the usual way using the library() function. Warning The webR project is under active development, and the API i

The ROI of Exercise

The ROI of exercise 22 Aug, 2025 I workout 4 days a week and I love it. It's the foundation of my morning routine, following spending 45 minutes drinking coffee on the couch and watching the sun come up with Emma. I've been doing this for a few years now and while I struggled (as everyone does) in the beginning, I can't imagine not exercising in the morning now. On the rare occasion that I do skip a workout, I feel it missing throughout the day as a lack of vitality and less mental clarity.

Building a computer in the 90s (2019)

Last Updated on March 19, 2024 by Dave Farquhar Building a computer in the 90s was different than it is today. It wasn’t just harder or more expensive. It seemed like every new build was an adventure. I probably built a few hundred systems before the decade ended, but the first few were definitely the most memorable. One in particular stands out above the rest. It was 1996. My friend Tom wanted a modern computer that was capable of handling photography work. He was in his early 20s at the time

World Wide Lightning Location Network

About WWLLN The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN - pronounced 'woollen'), is a network of very low frequency (VLF) radio lightning sensors operated by the University of Washington in Seattle. Most ground-based observations in the 3 - 30 kHz VLF band are dominated by impulsive signals from lightning discharges called “sferics”. Significant radiated electromagnetic power exists from a few hertz to several hundred megahertz, with the bulk of the energy radiated at VLF. With our world w

LASIK Without Lasers? Scientists May Have Found a Way

What if you could fix your damaged eye without having to shoot a laser at it? Scientists have potentially discovered a novel method of repairing the cornea, similar to LASIK, that wouldn’t require a laser or other invasive surgical tool. Researchers at Occidental College and the University of California, Irvine, created the technique, which aims to temporarily make the cornea malleable. In experiments with rabbit eyeballs, their method appeared to work while also leaving corneal cells alive. Mo

Gear News of the Week: Always-Recording Smart Glasses, and Google Teases a New Nest Speaker

First, they showed the world how easy it is to add facial recognition to Meta's smart glasses. Now, they're making their own pair of smart specs. Former Harvard students Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen this week announced Halo, a startup of roughly 11 people working to develop always-recording smart glasses. The pair dropped out of Harvard to develop Halo X, smart glasses with a display on the lens that can answer any question someone asks. Powered by a combination of Google's Gemini and Perp

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

So far this year, electricity use in the US is up nearly 4 percent compared to the same period the year prior. That comes after decades of essentially flat use, a change that has been associated with a rapid expansion of data centers. And a lot of those data centers are being built to serve the boom in AI usage. Given that some of this rising demand is being met by increased coal use (as of May, coal's share of generation is up about 20 percent compared to the year prior), the environmental impa

Topics: ai data energy use year

Apple reportedly prepping enterprise AI support beyond ChatGPT

On personal iPhones, users can decide whether they want Apple Intelligence to connect to ChatGPT. But on corporate devices, things can be trickier. That’s why Apple is reportedly adding support for enterprise accounts, but in a way that extends beyond its current OpenAI partnership. Here are the details. As reported by TechCrunch, with the upcoming iOS 26 update, Apple will add “the ability to configure the use of an enterprise version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT,” which offers different privacy settin

Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day

NAGOYA - A central Japan city said Thursday it will seek to pass an ordinance recommending all residents limit smartphone use to two hours a day outside of work and school amid concerns over the impact of excessive technology exposure, though there will be no penalties proposed. The ordinance drafted by the city of Toyoake in Aichi Prefecture is likely to be the first such municipal regulation in Japan that targets a limit on the use of smartphones and other electronic devices, according to the

Hot deal: The best XGIMI portable projector discounted for the first time!

Are you looking for a portable projector? I swear, I can no longer live without mine. It turns regular movie nights into magical moments! XGIMI makes some of the best ones; their latest and greatest is the XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser. It’s a bit on the pricier side, with a $799 full retail cost. It has just been discounted for the first time, though, so you can save $120 on it right now. Buy the XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser portable projector for $679 ($120 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited t

Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

Keeping children safe online is a core priority for Bluesky. We’ve invested a lot of time and resources building moderation tools and other infrastructure to protect the youngest members of our community. We’re also aware of the tradeoffs that come with managing an online platform. Our mission is to build an open and decentralized protocol for public conversation, and we believe in empowering users with more choices and control over their experience. We work with regulators around the world on c

Meta to unveil Hypernova smart glasses with a display, wristband at Connect next month

In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is planning to use its annual Connect conference next month to announce a deeper push into smart glasses, including the launch of the company's first consumer-ready glasses with a display, CNBC has learned. That's one of the two new devices Meta

Abxylute will sell an absurd 3D handheld from Intel and Tencent Games for "under $1,700"

As the handheld PC boom has taken off, companies have tried to push the boundaries of the Steam Deck form factor Valve helped popularize. Lenovo tried detachable controllers. Acer is trying an 11-inch screen. And Abxylute is apparently combining them both (and then some) into the Abxylute 3D One, which The Verge reports features an 11-inch, glasses-free 3D display and detachable controllers, all for "under $1,700." The Abxylute 3D One is based on a hardware prototype co-developed by Intel and T

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections. But this bacterium doesn't te

Four big enterprise lessons from Walmart’s AI security: agentic risks, identity reboot, velocity with governance, and AI vs. AI defense

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Jerry R. Geisler III, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Walmart Inc., to gain insights into the cybersecurity challenges the world’s largest retailer faces as AI becomes increasingly autonomous. We talked about securing agentic AI systems, modernizing identity

MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The adoption of interoperability standards, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), can provide enterprises with insights into how agents and models function outside their walled confines. However, many benchmarks fail to capture real-life interactions with MCP. Salesforce AI Research developed a new open-source benchmark it calls MCP-Un

Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Bluesky will block access from Mississippi IP addresses in response to a new state law requiring age verification and parental consent for underage users. The decision, outlined in a blog post, will stand until courts decide the fate of the law. “Mississippi’s approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky,” says the

Netflix wants its partners to follow these rules when using gen AI

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Netflix has already faced backlash over the use of AI in What Jennifer Did, director Jenny Popplewell’s 2024 true crime documentary that seemingly used AI-generated images in place of real archival photos. That documentary stood out as a shining e

Google shares rise on report of Apple using Gemini for Siri

Alphabet shares rose on a Friday report that Apple is in early discussions to use Google's Gemini AI models for an updated version of the iPhone-maker's Siri assistant. The company's shares rose more than 3% on the Bloomberg report, which said Apple recently inquired of Google about the potential for the search giant to build a custom AI model that would power a new Siri that could launch next year. Google's flagship AI models Gemini have consistently been atop key benchmarks for artificial int