Xbox has announced the first batch of games coming to Game Pass in April, including Life is Strange: True Colors and MLB The Show 22.Read More
Xbox Game Pass adds Life is Strange: True Colors, MLB The Show 22 in April
JavaScript Package Manager – Complete Guide to NPM and Yarn
A package manager is a tool developers use to automate finding, downloading, installing, configuring, upgrading, and removing a system’s packages. This article will show you all you need to get started with package managers like NPM and Yarn. But why exactly do we need a package manager in our development
The Beginner’s Guide to Sass
Have you ever wondered what SASS stands for? Or perhaps you already know what it is but haven’t taken the time to study and use it. Whether you’re learning about it for the first time, or want to brush up on your knowledge of the subject, this is the article
Types of Hard Drives – SATA, PATA, SCSI, and SSD
A hard drive is a non-volatile hardware component on a computer that acts as the storage for all digital content. It holds program files, documents, pictures, videos, music, and more. The non-volatile nature of hard drives means they don’t lose data, even if power is lost. Due to this, they
How to Make an Image Search App in React using the Unsplash API
Unsplash is a site where you can download free and unlicensed images and use them as you see fit. In this tutorial, we will make an Image Search App using the Unsplash API to get access to its enormous collection of images and also download them. Before starting the development
App lets you crank the new MacBook Pro’s brightness to over 1,000 nits
Vivid on a MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR.
Developers Jordi Bruin and Ben Harraway have released an application called Vivid that allows Apple’s new MacBook Pro models and Pro Display XDR to achieve double the brightness systemwide—something that previously wasn’t possible.
For background: Apple says the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro’s MiniLED display can reach 1,600 nits of peak brightness on highlights, or 1,000 nits of full-screen brightness. That’s nearly unrivaled in consumer laptop or desktop displays—it’s more in the realm of what you’d expect from a high-end television.
But while certain HDR video content will take advantage of that on highlights, the normal desktop computing experience isn’t much brighter than what you get on another monitor. macOS keeps things around 500 nits tops unless the content you’re specifically watching calls for more—and most content doesn’t.
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Coca-Cola launches its latest weird soda flavor in the metaverse
Coca-Cola is using the metaverse — Fortnite specifically — as a launching spot for its new, bizarre flavor that allegedly tastes of pixels.Read More
Texas’ power failure: Limited chance for profits vs. huge social costs
Enlarge / Winterizing every wind turbine in Texas makes economic sense. So why wasn’t it done? (credit: Ted Horowitz / Getty Images)
Just over a year ago, a cold front moved into Texas and stayed there. As demand for electricity soared, various generating sources fell off line, leading to extensive grid failures that left customers without power for days. Nearly every form of power generation suffered from failures, as did the system supplying generators with natural gas. The total cost in terms of lost business and lives is estimated at roughly $130 billion.
Initial analyses provided some suggestions on how Texas could restructure its grid to provide better protection against future events like this. But a new study has asked a related question. Texas has economic incentives that should induce commercial generators to install winterization equipment on their own. Why weren’t those incentives enough to get generating companies to install cold-weather hardware?
The new analysis finds that the financial incentives for winterization carry a high degree of risk. And the total incentives for winterization are far lower than Texas paid for the failure to winterize.
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Python Project – How to Build a Wordle Clone using Python and Rich
Wordle is a popular game where you guess a five-letter word in six tries. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word. It is similar to the Hangman game [https://ireadblog.com/posts/124/hangman-game-using-python] which I’ve already shown you how to
How retail is using digital twins
Digital twins are transforming the retail industry. At Nvidia’s GTC 2022 conference, top retail execs from the likes of Kroger and Lowes explained how this technology is making waves in their industry.Read More