I live next to a major airport, and vibe-coded a plane tracker that turns my ceiling into a live flight map

A software engineer explains how he set up a one-of-a-kind flight tracker in his home in under two hours via vibe coding.

I programmed a $7 ESP32-S3 board to block all computer's web ads - and it took just minutes

Raspberry Pi boards have gotten expensive, so I've been looking for cheaper alternatives. I found one in a tiny ESP32-S3 ...
Raleigh News & Observer

High-octane gas is more expensive than regular. Do you really need premium?

With fuel prices much higher, some drivers may be thinking about using a different grade of gasoline. That might not be a good idea. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com AI-generated summary ...
Click2Houston

Gas pump ‘Screw Method’ warning: How thieves can steal hundreds using your credit card

A new gas pump scam spreading across parts of the country could leave drivers unknowingly paying hundreds of dollars for fuel they never pumped. The scam, known as the “Screw Method,” has already been ...
IEEE

Quantitative Evaluation for Microcontroller based LPG Gas Control for Sustainable Safety Monitoring Using Google Cloud and Raspberry PI

Abstract: The compact chip referred to as microcontroller (MC) consists of a processor, memory, and I/O peripherals that are designed for control tasks. Due to the embedded nature of their operations, ...
PBS

Study: Lower-income Americans are using less gas but being hit the hardest by the price spike

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lower-income Americans sharply reduced their gas consumption in the month following the Iran war, yet spiking prices still forced them to spend more at the pump, worsening the ...
9to5google

Pixel 11 Pro will ditch the temperature sensor, leak says – did you use it?

After three generations, Google is apparently saying goodbye to its built-in temperature sensor on Pixel 11 Pro. 2023’s Pixel 8 Pro introduced one of Google’s first new hardware features in some time, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...
Rigzone

USA Has More Natural Gas Than It Can Use

In the heart of U.S. shale country, gas is so plentiful that producers have to pay buyers to take it off their hands. Image by ronniechua via iStock As the Iran war strangles natural gas supplies, ...
Nature

Scalable fabrication of gas sensors via spark-ablation printing of semiconductive metal oxide nanoparticles and heterostructures

Semiconductive metal oxide (SMO) gas sensors are extensively used in air monitoring, industrial safety, and hazardous-gas detection due to their high sensitivity, low cost and low power consumption.
Liliputing

Crowdfunded Pilet handheld PC redesigned to use Raspberry Pi CM5 for brains… even though backers expected it to work with a Raspberry Pi 5 Model B

More than a year after launching a crowdfunding campaign for a pair of Raspberry Pi-powered handheld computers, the folks at Soulsircuit have announced a major change… and backers aren’t particularly ...