Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today? FOSDEM 2026 Michal Pleban knows his old kit inside out, and his talk on the CIDCO MailStation was one of the most interesting of ...
IEEE

A Bitmap Approach for Mining Erasable Itemsets

Abstract: Erasable-itemset mining is a valuable method of pattern extraction for helping the manager of a factory analyze production planning. The erasable itemsets derived can be considered important ...
PC Magazine

Pixelmator Pro Explained: A Deep Dive Into Apple's Photoshop Alternative

Apple's latest creative app probably won't kill Photoshop, but it might make you question why you're still paying for it. I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing on ...
Hackaday

A Higher-End Pico-Based Oscilloscope

Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now, but microcontrollers have recently become fast enough to actually make such ...
Reader's Digest

What Exactly Does TL;DR Mean, and How Should You Use It?

Mystery solved! Here's what TL;DR means and why you keep seeing it online. It can be hard to stay current with the latest slang. Language (and internet culture) continues to evolve, resulting in an ...
Wall Street Journal

Trump’s Regression to the Mean

Only with more tragedy and stupidity, Donald Trump repeats a pattern. Like every other president’s deportation binge, his is ending in a backlash while producing no meaningful effect on the large U.S.
Time

What Do Hurricane Categories Actually Mean?

Hurricane Milton is barreling toward Florida, where it is projected to make landfall Wednesday night. The storm has been downgraded to a Category 4 hurricane, but the National Hurricane Center (NHC) ...
IEEE

Extracting and Retargeting Color Mappings from Bitmap Images of Visualizations

Abstract: Visualization designers regularly use color to encode quantitative or categorical data. However, visualizations “in the wild” often violate perceptual color design principles and may only be ...

Duke Nukem 3D's upgraded and remastered World Tour Edition may not be perfect, but when it's this close to free, it's a no-brainer pick-up

Hail to the King, baby!
GitHub

A bitmap vectorizer that can trace along the centerline of a stroke. The builtin inkscape 'trace bitmap' can only trace edges, thus resulting in double lines for most basic use ...

NOTE: This is python2 code. It was developed and tested with inkscape-0.92.3 -- It probably does not run with inkscape 1.0.1 and should not be needed. Inkscape 1.0.1 has the feature built-in under ...
BMJ

2. Mean and standard deviation

The median is known as a measure of location; that is, it tells us where the data are. As stated in , we do not need to know all the exact values to calculate the median; if we made the smallest value ...