Hackaday

Building A Ceiling-Based Crane Robot To Keep A Room Clean

One of the joys you get to experience whether as a proud parent or pet owner is that a lot of things get left around ...

The World’s Weirdest Coding Contest Honors the Most Unreadable Programs

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and ...
NPR

A federal judge in D.C. declines to block Trump's executive order on voting by mail

A federal judge has declined to temporarily block President Trump's executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail. The ruling released on May 28 by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a ...
The Washington Post

D.C. set to become first city in the U.S. to implement local child tax credit

D.C. is poised to become the first city in the nation to create a local child tax credit, a move that lawmakers say could be transformative for families living in poverty. The D.C. Council passed the ...
RAPS

Asia-Pacific Roundup: Malaysia, Thailand implement medical device reliance program after successful pilot

Agencies in Malaysia and Thailand have implemented a regulatory reliance program for medical devices after a successful three-month pilot. Malaysia's Medical Device Authority (MDA) and the Thai Food ...
Morningstar

Willdan Wins $27 Million Contract to Redesign and Implement New York City Accelerator Program

Willdan Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WLDN) announced today that it has been awarded a $27 million, three-year contract with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice to redesign and ...
ProPublica

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every ...
The New York Times

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...
WKYT

Kentucky lawmakers file bill to implement federal education tax credit program

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - Kentucky lawmaker Rep. Kimberly Moser (R) who represents Kenton County, filed legislation Thursday to implement a federal education opportunity program that would allow the ...
The Daily Gazette

'Overloading' may have led to deadly Philippine ferry sinking

Philippine authorities said Wednesday that a ferry may have been overloaded when it sank in the country's south last month, killing dozens of people who received no warning from the ship's crew. The ...
Recycling Today

Super Bowl LX will implement reusable cup program, AI recycling systems

PepsiCo is expanding its reusable cup program at the Super Bowl and leveraging AI to support recycling efforts at Super Bowl events. The reuseable cups are made from BPA-free polypropylene and hold 32 ...