Journalist Shawn Reynaldo revealed in his newsletter First Floor that rising indie artist Betty Hammerschlag, praised by The Guardian and The Quietus and played on NTS Radio, is actually a persona created by 45-year-old German musician Tilman Hornig. Hornig used stolen photos and a Gen Z-style writing voice to build the fake identity, even messaging young female and queer artists while posing as her, including collaborator tibslc who believed she was working with a young woman.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-06
Earth Garden is a web tool that lets users spin a 3D globe and hear real-world ambient sounds tied to specific locations, from ocean waves near Atlantic islands to crickets in Tanzania and rainfall in Manhattan. The audio clips are sourced from Freesound, and the site can auto-rotate the globe, blending in new recordings as it moves, with an option to layer ambient drone sounds over the top.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-05
Ruchira Shree, a New Jersey high school sophomore active with IEEE's Princeton Central Jersey Section, interned with the Alliance for Indigenous Math Circles, a group that runs STEM camps for Native American students. During the camp, she helped participants prepare for and pass amateur ham radio licensing exams as part of broader math and technology instruction.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-08-31
The magic eye tube, invented by Allen B. DuMont in 1932, was a vacuum tube used to visually indicate signal strength in radio receivers, helping users tune into stations accurately. RCA released the first commercial version, the 6E5, in 1935, and these tubes remained common in radios until around 1980, when transistors replaced vacuum tube technology.
en.wikipedia.org
· 2026-08-29
Researchers at MIT, led by Saransh Sharma with senior authors Giovanni Traverso and Anantha Chandrakasan, developed an ingestible capsule that measures body temperature to within 0.01°C. The device runs on a coin-cell battery and uses backscattering to shift most power demands to an external antenna, resulting in what they call the smallest ingestible temperature sensor yet built.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-08-25
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