Adam Savage goes hands-on with three iconic film helmets: the intricately painted Sauron helm from The Lord of the Rings (crafted by Weta Workshop), a dapper hero top hat from Gangs of New York, and a rugged armored helmet built by Terry English for Aliens 3. Each piece offers a deep dive into the design…
Huawei makes its CANN AI GPU toolkit open source to challenge Nvidia’s proprietary CUDA platform CUDA’s near 20-year dominance has locked developers into Nvidia’s hardware ecosystem exclusively CANN provides multi-layer programming interfaces for AI applications on Huawei’s Ascend AI GPUs Huawei has announced plans to make its CANN software toolkit for Ascend AI GPUs open…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and several other researchers and engineers came to Reddit the day after debuting the powerful new GPT-5 AI model for the time-honored tradition of an Ask Me Anything thread. Though the discussion ranged over all kinds of technical and product elements, there were a few topics that stood out as particularly…
A TikTok user damaged their MacBook display in an unexpected way The issue was caused by a piece of card placed under the lid Even something as innocuous as this can break a laptop screen For many MacBook owners, it’s a nightmare come true: you open the lid of your pricey laptop and switch it…
Hi there! I’m Maneshwar. Currently, I’m building a private AI code review tool that runs on your LLM key (OpenAI, Gemini, etc.) with flat, no-seat pricing — designed for small teams. Check it out, if that’s your kind of thing. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a paradigm that organizes code into objects—bundles of data (properties) and…
###🚀 My First EC2 Project: Hosting a Website on AWS as a Beginner As someone new to cloud computing, I recently took on the challenge of hosting my first website using Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). This project was a hands-on introduction to deploying a web server in the cloud, and it gave me a…
How I watched Claude create 50 lines of perfect code in 10 seconds… and 3 critical security vulnerabilities along with it. 🚨 The 10-Second Nightmare Last Tuesday, I was pair programming with Claude (yes, the AI). I asked it to create a simple user profile update API for our Next.js app. What happened next was…
Amazon’s War of the Worlds movie has boosted the visibility of another movie with the same name Viewers are tuning into the 2005 Tom Cruise-led film on various streaming platforms Neither flick is the best way to experience its sci-fi horror story, though It turns out Amazon’s War of the Worlds movie has done some…
Tom’s Guide offers a comprehensive look at the World in 2025 The special reports covers everything from AI and iPhones to wearables ands robots It’s a believable look at where most of major innovation is heading – with a few surprises The problem with most stories about the future is that they look so far…
The classic dial-up handshake sounds melodic, scratchy, and harsh, and is inexorably associated with connection. It’s also now silent. AOL’s decision this week to finally end dial-up service is not surprising, but it still feels like a door closing, one I walked through more times than I can count to step onto the world wide…
