inventions
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China Is Digging a Big Frickin’ Hole 10,000-Metres Into the Earth
China has seemingly set off on a journey into the centre of the earth. This week the country has begun digging what will eventually become the deepest hole in China’s history to test drilling technology and further understand the Earth’s underground structure, Bloomberg reported.
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The U.S. Is Weaponizing Semiconductors to Try to Reign In Russia
Semiconductor chips, the seemingly unremarkable component responsible for derailing global supply chains over the past two years, may play a pivotal role in the international community’s efforts to curtail Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Whether those tactics will actually work as intended remains far from certain.
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Clever Maker With Hand Tremors Turned a Smartphone Gimbal Into a Soldering Iron Stabilizer
Instead of giving up on hardware hacking after developing a hand tremor that hindered their ability to do precise soldering, Jonathan Gleich leveraged their maker skills to come up with a very clever solution: a re-purposed smartphone gimbal that now holds and stabilizes a soldering iron.
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Steven Universe’s Latest Anti-Racism PSA Is for All the History Buffs Out There
Keeping in-theme with the first PSA’s self-awareness, the newest Steven Universe short features Pearl of the Crystal Gems as she breaks character while recording an educational video about the inventive minds behind the lightbulb. While most everyone knows Thomas Edison to be the inventor of the light bulb, the reality is that the innovation wouldn’t…