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I Taught Myself to Use the Flipper Zero in an Hour, Then Hacked Everything in My Home

It looks like a cute little dolphin-themed toy, but the Flipper Zero is a surprisingly powerful learning tool for hacking. Here's how I mastered mine—and how you can, too.
Digital Camera World

Getty photographers captured more than six million images at the 2026 Winter Olympics. This photographer captured them with a PlayStation controller

Some of the most epic images of the 2026 Winter Olympics were shot using a robotic overhead camera run by a PlayStation ...

Playing Pokemon on your phone is good, actually, but I'd do it using this Game Boy controller

If you're new here, though, it's an excellent mobile controller that turns your phone into a Game Boy by clamping to the ...

After months of waiting to use the Switch 2 GameCube controller with an actual GameCube, I've finally found a dongle that works

I'm a massive GameCube simp, so I've naturally been itching to use the Switch 2 controller with the OG console for over half a year. Originally, I was scheming to use 8Bitdo's nifty Retro Receiver to ...
IEEE

Centralized Controller for Photovoltaic MPPT, Bidirectional Charging, and Dynamic Load Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: This work proposes a centralized controller operating using Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) for a small-scale Photovoltaic (PV), Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Distributed Energy ...
IEEE

Reduced Position Error and Overshoot Control Using Modified Integrator-Based QPR Controller and SMO for Limp Home Mode PMSM-Driven EV

Abstract: The conventional sliding-mode observer (SMO) used for position estimation in permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) drives for electric vehicle (EV) applications experiences chattering ...
The Economist

How democracies are using autocratic tools to muzzle journalism

In November 2024 a canopy on a Serbian railway station collapsed, killing 16 people. The most likely cause of the shoddy workmanship was corruption. Huge protests erupted, and independent journalists ...