Using a Raspberry Pi Zero, Stephen Coyle built a media player that would play random episodes of The Simpsons one at a time.
Fullstack Academy’s 15 Tech Orgs Supporting Black Coders
The New York coding school compiled a list of 15 organisations who “actively support black coders”.
Browsing The Web Without CSS
Jon Kantner turned CSS off to see how different the web would be and whether it’d function. Here were his findings. I love using Dev Tools to see how HTML work on websites. It helps me learn and I’m nosey in all honesty. But what if there was no CSS? You’d hope a website would …
Social media influencer threatens victim over domain name
The cyber siege did not end well for the defendant. UPDATE: Adams was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday 9th December 2019. Don’t you just hate it when you want a domain name and it’s taken? That’s why our sibling site Cultrface exists. Rossi Lorathio Adams II wasn’t too happy when doitforstate.com was …
What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
Kurzgesagt answers a very important question about nuclear weapons and the answer is harrowing. According to the organisation, the world holds 15,000 nuclear bombs (with most of them in the hands of the US and Russia). So what would happen if they all went off at the same time? Kurzgesagt couldn’t find an adequate source …
UrAvgConsumer Complete His 19th Massive Tech Unboxing
All that sweet, sweet tech. One of my favourite YouTube discoveries of 2018 was UrAvgConsumer. Real name Judner Aura, he describes himself as “just your average guy who loves tech and giving his opinions on it.” He has amassed a huge following across all platforms but this isn’t about the numbers. For his NINETEENTH massive …
Engineer Man beats a Craigslist scammer with Python
No one messes with Engineer Man and he showed a scammer who was boss with his nifty coding skills.
Time: The History & Future of Everything (according to Kurzgesagt)
We all need perspective every now and again and Kurzgesagt gave us just that. Time is relative they say. It’s more of an excuse for procrastinators and unpunctual than quantum physicists. But many of us lament the lack of time we have. The Kurzgesagt YouTube channel was created in 2013 and mainly cover scientific topics …
Scientist Duo Win Nobel Prize for Helping the Immune System Fight Cancer
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel prize for their efforts “harnessing the cancer patient’s own immune system to destroy tumours”. A cure for cancer remains elusive but two immunologists have won science’s most prestigious award, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their work in cancer immunotherapy. Allison discovered a molecule that halted …
Earthbound In Space
YouTuber Krazy Contraptions sent their SNES copy of Earthbound to the edge of space and it’s out of this world (pun intended). If you could send anything into space, what would it be? Earth to Sky Calculus provides that service using a helium balloon, allowing you to send almost any object to “the edge of …
Hero Nation’s Gaming Warriors Need Your Help!
Michigan organisation Hero Nation want to inspire the future through Gaming Warriors, an eSports video game scholarship program. But they need your help. Video games get a bad rep in the press but they have helped to develop and educate so many people, crossing social and cultural barriers through the idea of communities. Unfortunately, many …
Let’s Build! – ODROID-GO + New Project News
The Retro Future reviewed the ODROID-GO a week ago and now has one of his own. But he’s not the only one…