New Atlas

The little pixel clock that became part of my smart home

The Ulanzi TC001 is a small Wi-Fi clock built around a 32 x 8 RGB LED matrix. It’s compact, bright and just retro enough to ...
Mental Floss

What Does "Clock It" Mean? The Slang Phrase and Hand Gesture Explained

All it takes is one scroll through X or TikTok, or a conversation with a group of Gen Z friends spilling the tea, to hear the phrase "clock it!" At first, it sounds like someone is asking you for the ...
Carscoops

13 Years Later, Audi’s Digital Matrix Headlights Finally Reach America

For years, consumers around the globe have benefited from adaptive headlights while U.S. customers have been left behind. Slowly but surely, automakers are finding a way to bring this incredible ...
The Drive

Audi’s Matrix LED Headlights Are Finally Coming to America

For every Audi enthusiast asking themselves when the advanced lighting systems available in Europe will finally come to America the answer has arrived: later this year. On Thursday, Audi announced its ...
Motor Trend

You Can Leave the 2027 Audi Q9’s High-Beams On, and No One Will Flash You

Thanks to our archaic automotive lighting rules, American drivers have been denied much of the nifty lighting technology that Europeans enjoy. But a 2022 rule change has opened the door to matrix LED ...
Collider

‘The Matrix 5’ Confirmed With 1 Key Update From First-Time Franchise Director

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...
XDA Developers

This cool ESP32 project combines four screens into a 32x32 LED matrix

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...
TechCrunch

DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter

Data centers face a conundrum: how to power increasingly dense server racks using equipment that relies on century-old technology. Traditional transformers are bulky and hot, but a new generation of ...
XDA Developers

Someone used an Arduino to turn the Lego NASA Artemis SLS set into an alarm clock

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...
The Root

Black Superstar and Scientist Explain Biblical References in ‘The Matrix’

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Laurence Fishburne unpack The Matrix’s hidden biblical parallels, from Neo as “The One” to Morpheus as a John the Baptist figure. As “The Matrix” reportedly ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Doomsday Clock ticks down to 85 seconds to midnight in 2026—closest ever to apocalypse

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved forward four seconds and now sits at 85 seconds to midnight—the closest the symbolic clock has ...