Netflix’s latest experiment shouldn’t scare streaming freeloaders yet

DIY handheld PC uses mechanical keyboard, Game Boy pieces, Raspberry Pi

Enlarge (credit: Penk/Github ) If someone is using a handheld PC these days, it’s almost certainly a smartphone. But a Raspberry Pi has a way of bringing out an enthusiast’s retro side. Add in some old console parts and a true mechanical keyboard, and you’ve got a DO-IT-YOURSELF PC that can fit in the palm […]

NASA likely to move some astronauts off Starliner due to extended delays

Enlarge / NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada watch as an Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard is rolled to the launch pad ahead of the Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. (credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) NASA will not make an official announcement for weeks or months, but two sources say […]

Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”

A sample video shows how computer vision (running on an external computer) detects the enemy and calculates how far the mouse needs to move to target that enemy. When it comes to the cat-and-mouse game of stopping cheaters in online games, anti-cheat efforts often rely in part on technology that ensures the wider system running […]