TikTok GO Turns Halloween Videos Into Bookings
TikTok GO is the feature that lets a viewer book a tour, event or ticket without leaving the video that inspired it, and TikTok put…
Peter Kalafatis
Build a Hall-Effect RPM Tachometer With an Arduino
A build guide for an Arduino tachometer using a Hall switch and a magnet: how the sensor responds, interrupt-based pulse timing, the RPM arithmetic worked…
Tiffany Sloane Review: A Stand-Up Act With 375,000 Followers and Nobody Behind the Mic
A critic’s scorecard for the viral AI comedian accused of lifting real comedians’ jokes: material, delivery, honesty, reach and what Instagram did about it.
How the TikTok Fan Transition Hides a Cut
The TikTok fan transition is an outfit-change format in which a large fan blade sweeps across an overhead shot and the person underneath is suddenly…
Compressed RAM for Linux: How Meta’s CRAM Differs From ZRAM and Zswap
Meta’s CRAM proposal treats compressed RAM as normal memory, not swap. How it works, what the 452x claim measured, and what is still missing.
Direct-to-Cell Satellites: What the FCC’s 15,000-Satellite Approval for Starlink Mobile Allows
The FCC approved 15,000 direct-to-cell satellites for SpaceX on Oct 6. The orbit physics, spectrum, deadlines and what remains unproven.
Mistral Large 4 Preview: What a One-Trillion-Parameter Sparse Model Costs to Run, and What Mistral Has Not Said Yet
Mistral Large 4 is a 1T-parameter mixture-of-experts preview with weights promised by month end. The memory and compute math, the self-reported benchmarks, and the open…
Why Is My Python Code Slow? cProfile, py-spy and Flame Graphs
Answers to the questions people ask when Python runs slowly: how to read cProfile output, tottime versus cumtime, sampling versus deterministic profiling, py-spy, and flame…
Quark Wakes in the Quark-Gluon Plasma: How CMS Used Z Bosons as a Clean Reference
CMS tagged Z bosons in lead-lead collisions to look for the wake a fast quark leaves in quark-gluon plasma. How the measurement works, and how…
Wacom Intuos Small Review: Safe Starter, Dated Specs
The Wacom Intuos Small Bluetooth is a cheap, light and widely compatible first pen tablet, with dated specs. Here is what shoppers and reviewers found.