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The cash and stock offer values eBay at $125 a share, $20 more than the shares were valued at when New York trading ended on Friday, GameStop said in a statement on Sunday. GameStop's chief executive Ryan Cohen said he is prepared to take the bid directly to shareholders if eBay's board rejects the approach. GameStop rose to...
There is a machine in the Netherlands that is essentially the heartbeat of the modern world. It’s called an **Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool**, and it’s built by ASML. [![Image 1: ASML’s extreme ultraviolet lithography machines have more than 100,000 parts and sell for up to $400 million.
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: **`notepad-plus-plus-mac.org`** Let me be blunt: **This site has absolutely nothing to do with Notepad++.** It’s **not authorized**, **not endorsed**, and **not affiliated** with the project in any way. [![Image 3: Screenshot of fake Notepad++ for Mac...
I discovered a technique for generating reliable text and numbers in AI generated images. For example, the following image is considered impossible with state of the art image models. But I made this with Gemini 3.0 Pro (plus one extra step I’m going to explain below).
Unique animated characters assist in the fun and lucid introduction of 5 core programming processes: analysis, combination, generalization, abstraction and simulation. By using this site you are consenting to their use and accept our policies. Learn more...[](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/texico/#).
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World's biggest RC A380 [video]

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A YouTube video showcasing the world's biggest RC A380 aircraft. Built by RC enthusiasts, this massive remote-controlled replica of Airbus's flagship plane demonstrates impressive scale and engineering. Note: the original video link may no longer be available.
DeepClaude swaps the brain of Claude Code while keeping the body intact: it routes Claude Code's autonomous agent loop through DeepSeek V4 Pro ($0.87/M tokens) instead of Anthropic ($15/M). Everything works β€” file reading, editing, bash execution, subagent spawning, and multi-step coding loops β€” at a fraction of the cost.
nullagent from DataParty announced the BYOMesh β€” billed as the world's smallest and most capable LoRa companion dev kit. It combines the SX1276 (sub-1GHz ISM band) with the SX1281 (high-speed 2.4GHz LoRa) on a single tiny board, supporting MeshCore, Meshtastic, Reticulum, and MeshTNC protocols.
While hard drives have been around since the 1950s, the current 3.5β€³ form factor (actually 4β€³ wide) appeared in the early 1980s. Since then, the capacity of a 3.5β€³ drive has increased by about 10 6 times (from 10 MB to about 10 TB), sequential throughput by about 10 3 times, and access times by about 10 1 times. Although the basic concept of spinning magnetic disks accessed by a movable stack of disk heads has not changed, hard drives have...
Remarkably preserved relics from southern China β€” more than half representing species new to science β€” is transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Eon. The long protrusions look plant-like but are actually a colony of small worm-shaped animals housed in branching organic tubes. Han Zeng/Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences R oughly 540 million...