Backyard shed becomes a Class 100 cleanroom with lithography machine in DIY chip lab project

The YouTube channel, appropriately named Dr. Semiconductor, recently posted a video showing off the DIY lab, which was built to handle at least some of the ...
Hackaday

Arduino’s New AI-Centric Board Is The VENTUNO Q

There have been many questions about what direction Arduino would take after being bought by Qualcomm. Now it would seem that we’re getting a clearer picture. Perhaps unsurprisingly the ...
Hackaday

Building A Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside A Shed

Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening tools in, but if you’re like [Dr. Semiconductor], then what you see is a potential cleanroom for ...
Futurism

Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines

If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. The study involved over 3,000 participants across three separate experiments, but with the same general gist. In each, the ...
Reuters

ASML rides Nvidia's coattails with lasers and huge chip 'printers'

AMSTERDAM, Jan 27 (Reuters) - As artificial intelligence firms jostle for the Nvidia chips needed to power the AI boom, Dutch firm ASML (ASML.AS), opens new tab has carved out a key niche in the ...
CBS 58 News

After 30 years of service, West Allis sewing machine repair shop to shutter doors

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (CBS 58) -- For generations, clothes, pillows, and countless household items were sewn meticulously at home. In the heart of downtown West Allis, when those machines broke, there was ...
Futurism

Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

The Rhine is the second-longest river in Western Europe, discharging about 100,000 cubic feet of water a second into the North Sea. It snakes through the Swiss Alps and makes up large sections of ...
24/7 Wall St

5 Dividend Powerhouses That Could Transform Your Portfolio Into a Wealth-Building Machine

Johnson & Johnson shares surged 46.3% in 2025 to all-time highs above $212 after bottoming near $141 in April. AbbVie yields 6.77% and has grown its dividend at a 10-12% annual rate over the past five ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Turning Dwayne Johnson into ‘The Smashing Machine’ Required a New Brow Bone, a Prosthetic Eyelid and a Whole Lot of Tattoo Removal

Prosthetic makeup designer Kazu Hiro details his process, right down to learning the actors’ sweat patterns and using seven different kinds of adhesive. By Bill Desowitz For The Smashing Machine, ...
Los Angeles Times

K-Town man charged with tossing firebombs into L.A. federal building, targeting immigration agents

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Koreatown man with throwing Molotov cocktails at security officers inside ...
New York Post

NYC couple goes viral for using Empire State Building as Christmas tree topper

This may be the most New York City tree you’ll see this Christmas. A Greenwich Village couple trimming their tree last week realized that they don’t need an angel or a star because the Empire State ...