Build A Lathe Like It̢۪s 1777
We've seen quite a few scratch built lathes here at Hackaday, but none quite like the handcrafted pole lathe put together by [Jon Townsend] and his band of Merry Men as part of their effort to build a period-accurate 18th century log cabin homestead. With the exception of a few metal spikes here and there, everything is made out of lumber harvested from the forest around them. The lathe is designed to be a permanent structure on the homestead, with two poles driven into the ground to serve as legs. Two rails, made of a split lo…
We have a duty to build a better post-pandemic digital world
In just 25 years since its invention, almost four billion people now use the internet, vastly outpacing the speed at which the world adopted any earlier technology. For comparison, 25 years after the first commercial automobile was produced, less than 1 percent of United States citizens had one. It took 140 years from when Michael Faraday invented the first electric generator for electricity to reach half the world. Inventions that at first were luxuries become basic needs as societies and economies build up dependencies around them. During …
How Ulta Beauty Is Building Loyalty
Like many other retailers, Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) closed its physical stores in mid-March. Predictably, the company had a challenging fiscal first quarter (ended May 2). Ulta's same-store sales (comps), which include the closed locations, dropped 35.3%, and the company had a $101.5 million operating loss compared to operating income of $237.5 million i…
How a Black Commons Could Help Build Communal Wealth
A long history of racism has prevented many Black folks from owning land or homes—making it harder to accrue wealth and pass it on to future generations. Underlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities over police brutality is a fundamental inequit…
How-To Guide For Building A Dividend Portfolio
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Yara Shahidi Penned a Heartfelt Essay on Race Equality and Building a More Inclusive Future
In a heartfelt essay penned for Net-A-Porter's 20th anniversary, Yara Shahidi opened up about being born at the turn of the millennium and what it's been like for her to witness and participate in recent global movements towards inclusivity and equality. Quoting American novelist and playwright James Baldwin, Yara writes, "Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition." In the essay, Yara explains that this sense of home is something she and her entire generation have yet to find. "Rather than being…
A transformed MGNREGS is an effective tool to tackle rural distress
As our country goes through one of the toughest crises, it is expected that there would be political consensus, not political mudslinging, around our response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Right from upgrading hospital infrastructure, developing emergency beds and ICUs to economic measures. It was interesting to see Abhishek Manu Singhvi, in a recent newspaper article, taking umbrage at PM Modi's 'monumental failure' expression for MGNREGS in 2014. However, the entire discourse, carried on by many opposition leaders, a…
The Trump 2020 app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power
A member of our research team discovered that the app was compiled with an older version of Android, which does not include some of the latest privacy improvements, and uses software provided by a company called Phunware, well known for collecting people's location information and relations with the Trump campaign, a role highlighted by a Wall Street Journal investigation last year. Phunware has come under major scrutiny recently for accepting millions of dollars in federal loans intended to help small businesses cope with the coronavirus…
‘China uses border issue as tool to build pressure on India’
As India and China are engaged in a stand-off in the Galwan Valley, Maj Gen GG Dwivedi (retd) shares his insight into the current situation. He has commanded 16 JAT in Siachen (Durbuk Pangong Tso area), a brigade in the Kashmir Valley and Mountain Division in the North East and also served as India's defence attaché in China and North Korea from 1997 to 99. He is currently a professor of strategic and global affairs. China considers it opportune to push its agenda regarding…
Singer Akon Is Launching a Cryptocurrency Building Senegal City
(Bloomberg) -- When Grammy Award-nominated singer Akon tried to convert some of Senegal's currency to euros during a trip from Dakar to Paris a few years back, he was met with resistance. An employee at the currency exchange counter in France told him, "Unfortunately, we don't take those." "I'm like, 'What?'" Akon recalled in a recent phone interview with Bloomberg News. He hadn't had time to convert one currency to the other before he left for his trip and was stuck with a pocketful of CFA …
Zoom classes for seniors help build ‘a church without walls’
Shirley Burgher begins each day by getting closer to God. She starts with centering prayer, a type of meditation developed by three Trappist monks in the 1970s, and Lectio Divina, a monastic practice of reading Scripture and reflection. It's a source of strength and solace, which she has shared for the past 20 years with members of her Episcopal church, St. John the Divine. She had been leading weekly…
Last Remnants Of KMart Being Removed From Vernon Building
VERNON, CT — The last remnants of a retail icon — KMart — were being removed from a Vernon commercial building Thursday. The work is part of the building's conversion to an Ocean State Job Lot. The remaining signs reflected both the old KMart garden shop and brands popularized corporate owner Sears Holdings. At lunchtime, the Die Hard battery sign had already been killed and was at a lifeltess rest against the building. The Craftsman tools sign was nearby alfter it, too, was taken down. By 1 p.m., just the garden shop and Kenmore appliance…
eleven-x and Pinchin Partner to Provide Indoor Environment Monitoring and Risk Management Solutions for COVID-19 Building Re-Occupancy
LoRaWAN® Based Solutions Offer Remote, Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring and Management Capabilities WATERLOO, Ontario, June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eleven-x, a global leader providing complete, wireless, full-service low power IoT solutions, and Pinchin, one of Canada's largest building science, environmental and health & safety consulting firms, are pleased to announce a partnership to deploy innovative new building and indoor environment monitoring as part of a comprehensive solution to help minimize the spread of COVID-19 in …
Adobe Creative Cloud updates add more AI and learning tools
While Adobe's major update to its Creative Cloud applications includes several feature improvements—for example, an AI-powered, improved Smart Subject feature for Photoshop—the main focus is explanatory: showing how to use its tools, as much as providing new one. Adobe said Tuesday that it's doubling the amount of content available on Adobe Live, its source for instructional videos and other tutorials. Adobe Live is also going mobile. Similarly, over 21 million people are now members of Behance, …
Facebook research reveals AI tools for improving online clothes shopping
In May, the same week Facebook announced Shops, a way for businesses to set up online stores for customers across Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, the tech giant detailed the AI and machine learning systems behind its ecommerce experiences. Facebook said its goal is to one day develop an assistant that can serve up product recommendations on the fly, and that can learn preferences by analyzing images of what's in a person's wardrobe while allowing the person to try new items on self-replicas and sell appar…
A $10000 BTC Bounty for an open source tool to export your Twitter followers
People have crowdfunded a $10000 bounty, payable in BTC, for an open source tool that helps people export their followers from Twitter to Substack, Ghost, Locals, or other user-controlled platforms. Read on for the problem description and possible solutions. Submit your bounty entry here. Because this is desired by many people, a good solution to this bounty could become a product or even a startup. You'd want to first get it to work robustly for Twitter influencers, probably via white glove service for the first 100 or so ac…
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