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Building a Wi-Fi Router Watchdog

Dev created a watchdog for a Wi-Fi extender using a Raspberry Pi Pico. This monitors Wi-Fi connectivity for his smart home lighting system, which would require a reset twice a year due to rapid power interruptions.

Fliers Seek Better Ways To Get Sleep On a Plane

It's the holy grail of long-distance economy travel: a pillow that can actually help you get some sleep.

Holiday Hangover Hardware Hacking

Having too much cheer during the holidays? In this month's article, Colin offers a diversion from the jolly season by urging developers to retreat to the basement to brush up on hardware hacking skills. He shows how a low-cost Raspberry Pi Pico and a TP-Link Tapo C200 smart IP camera could become the next automated bird deterrent or a home automation server.

YOU WON'T GET FREE OF IT

Alice Munro's partner sexually abused her daughter. The harm ran through the work and the family.

Liberty Media's MotoGP Bid Faces In-Depth EU Probe

Formula One owner Liberty Media's planned bid for Dorna Sports faces an in-depth investigation by the European Commission over concerns the $3.6 billion deal could hurt competition in broadcasting and streaming markets.

Climate Change Keeps Some Crops Pricey

Extreme weather boosted prices of cocoa, coffee and orange juice in 2024

THE LEPER - LEE CHANGDONG

. . . to survive, to hang on, waiting for the new world to dawn, what can you do but become a leper nobody in the world would deign to touch? - From \"Windy Evening,\" by Kim Seong-dong.

Create Your Own PCBs with a CNC Milling Machine

Using KiCad, CopperCAM, and Candle Software

Rickey Henderson: Hail to the Thief

Remembering baseball's base-stealing, run-scoring, myth-making Hall of Famer, who died Friday at age 65

Emphasis on Italy

Many of the standout shows focused on artists from-or inspired by-this sunny strip of Europe

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

\"Black Doves,\" on Netflix.

NATURE STUDIES

Kyle Abraham's “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.”

ART OF STONE

\"The Brutalist.\"

Performance Bottlenecks in Embedded Linux Solutions Analysis, Identification, and Mitigation

Good performance is a requirement for every technology, and system designers rely on operating systems to ensure fast and smooth transitions in critical applications. Fortunately, Pedro writes, the embedded Linux OS offers ways for finding, analyzing and mitigating performance bottlenecks so embedded systems can deliver the speed and efficiency that end users expect.

What the Science Says About Fluoride in Our Water

How much do we need to protect our teeth without risking possible cognitive harm?

H&M Is Banking on Pop-Star Chic To Make Its Brand Cool Once More

H&M has a unique problem for a mass retailer: It has gone too mainstream.

Struggling Nissan Counts On A Honda Lifeline

Nissan, once a symbol of Japan's carmaking prowess, spent the past five years trying to regain its footing after the arrest of longtime leader Carlos Ghosn, only to find itself in a precarious spot again.

Exploring LangChain: A Practical Approach to Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

LangChain is a powerful framework for building applications that incorporate large language models (LLMs).

Flat Start for 12-Team Playoff

Ever since college football introduced a four-team playoff a decade ago, analysts and armchair quarterbacks had salivated over the prospect of adding more teams to the mix.

How to 'Manifest' Your Own Success

The practice of visualizing desired outcomes, through listing goals and vision boards, has become popular this year

THE SPOTIFY SYNDROME

What is the world's largest music-streaming platform really costing us?

Private Prisons Foresee A Border Bonanza

Firms line up to aid Trump deportations, and some consider family detentions

Psychosis Patients Find New Hope

A classroom-style treatment teaches patients to live with the voices

The Grandsons Didn't Get Along

Charlemagne is known as \"the father of Europe,\" and little wonder. The Frankish king and conqueror was crowned emperor by the pope on Christmas Day in 800, and thus the Holy Roman Empire came into being. It would persist, in various forms, for a millennium, an institution critical to the continent's political and religious self-definition.

Trump and the Fake Debt Limit

President-elect Trump was right last week when he raised a red flag over the debt limit. The outgoing government is leaving a tailor-made debt crisis for Mr. Trump that complicates his work to implement his mandate, cut taxes quickly and rebuild U.S. strength.

WHAT GOOD IS MORALITY?

Ask not just where it came from but what it does for us

MOMMA MIA

Audra McDonald triumphs in \"Gypsy\" on Broadway.

Chinese Cabinet Makers Skirt Tariffs

U.S. agents had to climb over piles of boxes to see inside the warehouse. They had learned about the secret building after finishing their tour of cabinet-production facilities in Penang, Malaysia.

New Threats Plague Herders in Tanzania

Government to evict tens of thousands to facilitate safaris and carbon-credit projects

FDA Clears Lilly's Zepbound For Some Sleep Apnea Cases

Company said the prescription drug is only one for treating condition in adults