Author: Romano McBride
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Electric Car Charging Network Fragmentation
While I appreciate the development of charging infrastructure for electric cars, the development of proprietary networks is unsettling.
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Cheetah 3D Keyboard Bindings
Cheetah 3D has a place in my heart as the smoothest 3D package out there. Even though I also use Maya for procedural and scripting stuff and Blender for baking, nothing comes close to how polished and efficient Cheetah3D is. I would like to share my key bindings with fellow Cheetah3D users since Cheetah3D doesn’t come with a lot of…
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To get away with planned obsolescence, just call it DRM
The idea that customers just “license” software products instead of owning them has manifested and I see a daunting development in the consumer electronics world that could potentially lead to products becoming obsolete because the associated software is deemed obsolete by the manufacturer.
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BYTON M-Byte
The M-Byte is the first BYTON production vehicle, bringing the breakthrough Shared Experience Display of the concept car into production, along with a refined user experience.
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The Thing With SUV Crash Safety.
Unfortunately, it’s true that a heavier car (like an SUV) is often safer, simply because it’s heavier.
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Thunderbolt Target Boot Mode
Macs still have this incredibly useful, not very well-known feature: target disk and target boot mode. In combination, they allow you to boot one Mac using the boot partition of another Mac. Why is that useful? Well, here’s the number one use-case: If you have a MacBook – a portable work computer – but need…
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The Turing Test loop: Extrapolating the reCAPTCHA Development
For robots to serve us better, they need to be able to tell the difference between humans and other, potentially malicious robots. Every time we prove we’re not a robot through reCAPTCHA, robots get a tiny bit smarter. This means that in the future, the threshold for proving that we’re not robots will go up, which means that we’ll have…
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Why Paywalls Don’t Work
I don’t have a problem with paying for quality content and I believe, a large number internet users don’t either. If millions of people used to pay to have their newspapers delivered, why shouldn’t that work in the internet age? Especially in the last few years, with adblocker user base steadily increasing, online newspapers would…
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Dithering Explained – For Humans
Dithering is a technique used to mitigate the loss of depth in a quantization process of any signal and is often used in computer graphics to reduce the perception of “steps” and increase visual fidelity. There are different approaches to this and the original concept is way older than computer graphics. However, even though it’s…