At a mere 2 square micrometers in size, this is the world's smallest QR code and it's 'smaller than most bacteria'

The QR code is so small, in fact, that it can "only be recognised with an electron microscope". As a result, the research ...

Today I learned Motorola was once developing a password pill that turns your body into an authentication token: 'We have demoed this working and authenticating a p…

At the time, Motorola were also intent on 'fixing' the "mechanical mismatch between humans and electronics" with a password ...
Hackaday

ReMemory Is The Amnesia-hedging Buddy Backup You Didn’t Know You Needed

What would happen if you lost your memory, even partially? With so much of our lives being digital, forgetting your passwords (or the master key to your password manager) could be disastrous.
The New York Times

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...
LancasterOnline

Bitter cold, wind chills near zero to put Lancaster County under Code Blue

Single-digit and sub-zero wind chill temperatures will put Lancaster County under a Code Blue alert Monday evening into Wednesday morning. The alert will last from 10 p.m. Monday through 9 a.m.
Gizmodo

Dem Congressman Wants to Make ICE Agents Wear QR Codes

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, says he’s going to introduce legislation to require that all ICE and CBP agents wear a QR code on their uniforms. The idea is that people ...
Post and Courier

North Charleston is putting QR codes near bus stops. Here's how they may help residents in need.

NORTH CHARLESTON — To help people facing homelessness and food insecurity, the city is piloting a program by placing QR code signs next to bus stops on Rivers Avenue that bring up a list of nearby ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

Where can you find Asheville warming centers? Emergency shelter?

ASHEVILLE - With the arrival of winter, and despite the warm-up expected for the holidays, once weather again turns cold, several area nonprofits, shelters and churches offer reprieve during the day.
MIT Technology Review

AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Progress for Whately ZIP code change put on hold

The approximate shape of Whately’s ZIP codes. It should be noted the U.S. Postal Service does not maintain an official ZIP code map because codes are assigned to a point of a delivery, therefore ...
TechCrunch

WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already been put to real-world use, only months after its September debut. At the company’s annual “State of the Word” event on Tuesday in San ...