As you can probably imagine, we get tips on a lot of really interesting projects here at Hackaday. Most are pretty serious, at least insofar as they aim to solve a specific problem in some new and clever way. Some, though, are a little more lighthearted, such as a fun project that came across the tips line back in May. …
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BitMine Crypto + Cash Holdings Exceed $8.8 billion, including 1.71 million ETH Tokens BitMine Crypto NAV per share is now $39.84 as of August 24th compared to $22.84 per share on July 27th. BitMine Crypto + Cash holdings of $8.8 billion is a $2.2 billion increase from $6.6 billion reported last week BitMine remains supported by a premier group of …
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Researchers have been able to measure liquid carbon experimentally for the first time. They combined a high-power laser with the ultrashort X-ray laser flash of the European XFEL. Credit: HZDR / M. Künsting Researchers have completed a groundbreaking experiment at the European XFEL. An international team of scientists, led by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), set …
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Apple is designing new “Liquid Silicone” cases for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, with images of the alleged case colors shared by leaker “Majin Bu.” The lineup includes eight variants with a matte finish and soft-touch texture, including deep orange, pale orange, grass green, celadon, fog purple, grey blue, dark blue, and midnight black. The cases …
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Ford Multimatic Motorsports’ two Mustang GT3s will have a new look for this weekend’s Michelin GT Challenge at VIR. The two GTD PRO cars will run carbon fibre and fluorescent yellow liveries to celebrate the reveal of the new Ford Mustang GTD Liquid Carbon at this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion. Ford Performance said in a press release today: “The …
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Image Credit: iDeviceHelp iPhone 17 is just a few weeks away, and there’s more evidence that Apple is planning a new feature for its MagSafe cases. Majin Bu shared a video on social media of someone handling what he calls a “Liquid Silicone” case on an iPhone 17 dummy unit. For context, Liquid Glass is what Apple calls the transparent …
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In the context of the Ford Mustang GTD, a carbon fiber aesthetics package is clinically uninteresting. I mean, this is a street-legal racecar made by Multimatic; it has an inboard rear suspension that you can see through plexiglass; it has a ridiculous 815-horsepower, supercharged 5.2-liter V8; it can lap the Nürburgring in well under 7 minutes; its wing is enormous … …
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Apple is continuing to tweak the way that the Liquid Glass design looks ahead of the iOS 26 launch, and the latest beta makes a change to the Lock Screen. The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through. Beta 6 on left, beta 5 on right The clock also has …
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iOS 26 is a feature-packed update, but the biggest change is easily the new Liquid Glass design. And the latest iOS 26 beta shows that despite criticism, Apple isn’t backing down from its original Liquid Glass vision. The evolution of Liquid Glass in iOS 26 so far Every summer, the same story plays out with Apple software: Apple unveils its …
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Scientists have used ultrafast high-intensity lasers to superheat gold to 14 times its melting point without turning the solid metal into a liquid. The record-breaking experiment, which was described in a study published July 23 in the journal Nature, smashed a decades-old theory about the stability of solids and is the first reliable method to precisely measure the temperature of …
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