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CTAP Student FAQ

The Cougar Textbook Access Program (CTAP) is a program that provides undergraduate students access to required course materials before the first day of class for a flat, per-term fee. What is eligible ...

Guy who took photo of Jupiter with a Game Boy Camera and giant telescope publishes DIY tutorial

Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue made headlines last month after using a Game Boy Camera to take a photo of Jupiter. Obviously, a Game Boy Camera isn't capable of that kind ...
marktechpost

Robbyant Releases LingBot-VLA 2.0: An Open-Source 6B Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model for Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation

Ant Group’s Robbyant has released LingBot-VLA 2.0, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model for robots. The release includes a technical report, an Apache-2.0 codebase, and a 6B checkpoint. The ...
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DIY smartphone notification LED: Easy 3.5mm jack hack!

Discover how to build a simple and effective external LED light for your smartphone with this hands-on tutorial. Using a 3.5mm audio jack from old wired earphones and a small LED, create a practical ...
New Atlas

Homemade solar drone smashes endurance record with 5+ hours aloft

Luke Bell and his father Mike have done it again. Their new solar-powered drone – running on sunlight and almost nothing else – just claimed an unofficial endurance record for electric multirotors, ...
marktechpost

DeepSeek Researchers Open-Sourced a Personal Project named ‘nano-vLLM’: A Lightweight vLLM Implementation Built from Scratch

The DeepSeek Researchers just released a super cool personal project named ‘nano-vLLM‘, a minimalistic and efficient implementation of the vLLM (virtual Large Language Model) engine, designed ...
GitHub

Sparse InversE Covariance estimation for Ecological Association and Statistical Inference

This package will be useful to anybody who wants to infer graphical models for all sorts of compositional data, though primarily intended for microbiome relative abundance data (generated from 16S ...
MusicRadar

"There's a new free DAW in town": openDAW promises to open the door to music production for beginners, students and beatmakers on a budget

openDAW is a new free browser-based DAW that developer André Michelle says is designed to make music creation "accessible to everyone, from beginners to professionals". Though still in development - ...
PNAS

Adaptive expression of phage auxiliary metabolic genes in paddy soils and their contribution toward global carbon sequestration

Paddy soils are a vital contributor to global carbon sequestration; however, global change could stimulate organic carbon decomposition by soil microbes and create positive feedback between carbon ...
C&EN

Introductory Tutorials for Simulating Protein Dynamics with GROMACS

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become an indispensable tool for ...
ChinaFile

Beijing’s Culinary Crusade: Erasing Uyghur Identity through Food

Timothy A. Grose is an Associate Professor of China Studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. His work on Uyghur ethno-national identity and ethnic policy in China has been published in The ...