Meet Project Patchouli, an open-source drawing tablet project to 'build your own tablet from scratch'

For something intended to mimic good old pencil and paper, drawing tablets and the tech behind them are surprisingly complicated. If you fancy a crash course in how they work and want to build your ...

Why is Bob’s Java Jive, Tacoma’s iconic coffee-pot bar, painted all white?

Built in 1927, the owner of the cement-covered, wood-frame haunt on South Tacoma Way has slowly but surely been restoring the ...

I tried Gemini's 'scheduled actions' to automate my AI - the potential is enormous (but Google has work to do)

Here's what you can and cannot automate today via Gemini, including 15 ideas to use as starting points - and a bonus banana in a raincoat with an umbrella.
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Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips

SINGAPORE, Dec 17 (Reuters) - In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the ...