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Nirvaan Tandon started with Snap Circuits at four, learned programming at six, and encountered a Raspberry Pi at seven when he attended Coolest Projects, a showcase for young makers. Now 14, he's built a chess timer from a Raspberry Pi Pico W that's ...

Vice President JD Vance told podcast host Benny Johnson that he has a theory about UFOs: "I don't think they're aliens, I think they're demons anyway." He said he's "obsessed" with the topic but hasn't had time to look into the classified files Trump ...

A UK company just won a £1 million prize for assistive glasses for people with dementia. The Longitude Prize was established as a "challenge prize" to encourage innovation to solve the world's biggest problems. The name is a nod to the prize set up ...

In the advent of music streaming, radio is becoming kind of a lost art (at least with people my age), and I think that's tragic. Maybe I don't want to curate any more dark academia playlists. Maybe I just want to turn on some dubious device and let a ...

Researchers from the University of Austin have identified a new species of dinosaur. The turkey-sized juvenile lived near what is now Aphae Island in South Korea about 113 million to 94 million years ago. It had a rounded skull and may have been ...

Nashville Public Library has opened its first Memory Lab, a self-serve media digitization studio at its Donelson Branch, offering locals a no-cost way to convert VHS tapes, photographs, slides, and negatives into high-resolution digital files ...

Researchers have produced the most detailed map yet of the nerves of the clitoris, using high-powered X-ray imaging to reveal structures too small to see with conventional clinical scanning. The findings were reported first by Chris Simms in The ...

Three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma, Italy, in a raid that police say lasted less than three minutes. The theft, which occurred on the night of March 22-23, was not publicly ...

Saturday's No Kings events, taking place in 3,300 locations across the U.S., were the highest number of protests in a single day in U.S. history. And 8 million people turned out, claim the organizers, for the third round of anti-authoritarian marches ...

The AP-1 Acoustic Drum Machine doesn't play samples: it holds a thing and a drumstick, then hits the thing with the drumstick. It may be programmed or controlled via MIDI, and has a touchscreen and dial for adjusting presets, which include use as a ...