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WisMesh Board ONE Pocket: The Modular Meshtastic Handheld With Potential
If you’re involved with the Meshtastic community, you know that finding the perfect handheld device that combines flexibility, durability, and expandability isn’t always straightforward. The WisMesh Board ONE Pocket by RAK Wireless enters the market as a versatile solution with some unique features—most notably, its modular expansion capabilities. Based on the impressive WisMesh Board ONE…
A sounding board for strengthening the student experience
During his first year at MIT in 2021, Matthew Caren ’25 received an intriguing email inviting students to apply to become members of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s (SCC) Undergraduate Advisory Group (UAG). He immediately shot off an application. Caren is a jazz musician who majored in computer science and engineering, and minored in music…
WisMesh Board ONE Review: Compact, Expandable, Solar-Powered | 10% Discount!
If you’ve been following our Meshtastic hardware reviews, you’ve likely seen our recent coverage of the WisMesh Board ONE Pocket – RAK’s handheld Meshtastic device. Today, we’re examining the heart of that system: the WisMesh Board ONE bare board itself. Unboxing and Initial Impressions The WisMesh Board ONE arrives in simple but secure packaging. Inside,…
AI for the board game Diplomacy
Research Published 6 December 2022 Authors Yoram Bachrach, János Kramár Agents cooperate better by communicating and negotiating, and sanctioning broken promises helps keep them honest Successful communication and cooperation have been crucial for helping societies advance throughout history. The closed environments of board games can serve as a sandbox for modelling and investigating interaction and…
Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Combat Zone Board Game Review – IGN
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is an electrifying animated Netflix series that debuted in 2022 and left me gobsmacked. Across 10 episodes, we rip through Night City alongside protagonists David and Lucy as they confront the terrors of the concrete hellscape while stuck between two warring MegaCorps. This brilliant anime is full of potential and is too damn…
Talisman: The Magical Quest 5th Edition Board Game Review – IGN
Questing through dangerous dungeons in search of loot and magical artifacts goes together with board games like peanut butter and chocolate, and the Talisman: The Magical Quest Game series was one of the first to make that combination so compelling. The first edition of Talisman was released back in 1983 by Games Workshop – now…
Elden Ring: The Board Game Review – IGN
Not many games in the past decade have generated as much buzz in the zeitgeist as FromSoftware’s Elden Ring. In a time when board games based on video games are becoming commonplace, it was only a matter of time before FromSoftware’s behemoth made its way to the tabletop. Steamforged Games – creators of other major…
Update: Cybercriminals still not fully on board the AI train (yet)
In November 2023, Sophos X-Ops published research exploring threat actors’ attitudes towards generative AI, focusing on discussions on selected cybercrime forums. While we did note a limited amount of innovation and aspiration in these discussions, there was also a lot of skepticism. Given the pace at which generative AI is evolving, we thought we’d take…
G.I. Joe: Battle for the Arctic Circle Board Game Review – IGN
For children of the ’80s, few rivalries are as nostalgic as the one between G.I. Joe and Cobra, with their high-tech vehicles, creative codenames, and the red and blue lasers their weapons shot. For longtime board game players, the Axis & Allies series of war board games may hold a similar nostalgia with its large…
AMD Supercharges Copilot+ AI PCs With Ryzen AI 300 Mobile CPUs, 50 TOPS NPU On Board
Whether you knew you needed it or not, locally-hosted AI is the next big thing in PCs, and AMD is at the forefront of this movement. The company was first to market with consumer processors sporting AI-accelerating Neural Processing Units (NPUs), and it’s now on its third generation of processors for “AI PCs.” That’s the…