#104 What's inside alkaline batteries
CT scans of Lithium-ion, LiPo, and alkaline batteries
Learn how Li-ion and LiPo batteries move so many electrons without having to open one yourself. Our CT scanner lets you see inside while staying safe.
USB-C can hit 120Gbps with newly published USB4 Version 2.0 spec
USB4 Version 2.0 offers a nice potential bump over the original USB4 spec, which introduced optional support for 40Gbps operation. You just have to be sure to check the spec sheets to know what sort of performance you're getting.
Growing up with friends who were disproportionately male and disproportionately nerdy, I learned that it was a normal thing to interrupt people. If someone said something you had to respond to, you'd just start responding. Didn't matter if it "interrupted" further words - if they thought you needed to hear those words before responding, they'd interrupt right back.
AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers
Artificial Intelligence is now capable of beating the best humans at chess 100% of the time no questions asked. The Roomba in the corner of my room still gets stuck on things and runs out of power. Which of these two technologies do you think will impact corporate America the most; robots that must be built by robots to perform a specific task once done by a person, or a program capable of making the best possible business decision given historic and currently available data?
Introducing the Stack Overflow Offline project
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia.
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