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Your presentation has presenter notes but your MacBook has only one display? Create a dummy display for the full-screen presentation, share that into the remote meeting/projector, …

The Shaper Origin handheld CNC router makes an impressive attempt at compensating for imperfect frame rigidity, as it's designed to be handheld. The Origin operates in only two axe…

Yes. It's disappointing to hear your friends didn't receive theirs. If they're still interested, there are comments on that Kickstarter organizing an independent production run of …

Yes. I backed a Kickstarter for the pISO that did this with the Pi Zero. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178023282/piso-the-most... Open source hardware and software published…

As much as I appreciate the privacy-first aims of the GDPR, I think that at some point it collides head-on with property records. Privacy and property rights are interconnected: af…

Judge Story "went on to acknowledge the Georgia situation is 'an unusual case because most official codes are not annotated and most annotated codes are not official.' Despite the …

If the settlement is not greater than the gain of the fraud, it looks more like a cost of doing business than a penalty.

Bias need not be coordinated or conspiratorial to exist in media. Trump and Clinton each have more than twice the earned (free) media coverage than their nearest competitors. The a…

If Evernote integrated Markdown into its mobile, web, and native editors, I would be much closer to an ideal. It's early, but Classeur shows potential to fill this gap. I tried htt…

The Plex app on the Amazon Fire TV (and stick) is fantastic. I'm a big Plex fan, but I don't immediately see any incremental benefits to running Plex Media Player, or why I would d…

park.io discloses that they buy some names for their own portfolio. Whether disclosure makes it appear less disingenuous is in the eye of the beholder. In their FAQ, park.io writes…

It's dynamic range compression for equity! Audio compressors have features such as "soft knee," which gradually eases into compression over the threshold. Easing into the threshold…

Biometric EarPods are real -- but the product is called The Dash, made in Munich by Bragi. The Dash monitors movements like pace, steps, cadence and distance as well as heart rate,…