
Light

Automatic Evening Light With Cut-Off Timer
Designing a circuit to switch on a light at dusk and off at dawn is straightforward, and many such designs have been featured in EFY. However, lights controlled this way remain on all night, resulting in wasted electricity and reduced lamp lifespan. In most homes and business premises, outdoor lights are turned on at dusk…
Engadget review recap: Surface Pro, Rivian, Canon, Light Phone and more
I can’t blame you if you’ve been spending more time outside lately instead of reading gadget reviews. Spring has sprung, at least for us at Engadget HQ in the US, and there’s a lot of touching grass going on amongst our staff. Still, if you’ve missed any of our reviews over the last two weeks,…

Forward-thinking CISOs are shining a light on shadow IT – Help Net Security
In this Help Net Security interview, Curtis Simpson, CISO and Chief Advocacy Officer at Armis, discusses how CISOs can balance security and innovation while managing the risks of shadow IT. Rather than focusing on restrictive policies, fostering proactive partnerships with business leaders to identify secure alternatives for unsanctioned tools is essential. Simpson also discusses common…
Gemma Scope: helping the safety community shed light on the inner workings of language models
Technologies Published 31 July 2024 Authors Language Model Interpretability team Announcing a comprehensive, open suite of sparse autoencoders for language model interpretability. To create an artificial intelligence (AI) language model, researchers build a system that learns from vast amounts of data without human guidance. As a result, the inner workings of language models are often…

Be Quiet Light Base 900 DX Case Review: Innovative design with lots of space
The latest fishbowl-style PC case on our test bench is Be Quiet’s Light Base 900 DX, a chassis that supports three layout configurations. It also features ARGB lighting strips along the side, back-connect motherboard support, and includes two pre-installed ARGB and PWM hardware hubs. In many ways, the Light Base 900 DX is simply a…

Hyper Light Breaker Early Access Review – IGN
Normally, when a sequel is announced that’s a wild departure from the original, I welcome it with open arms – look no further than my inexplicable but everlasting love of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts as evidence. But after more than a dozen hours with Hyper Light Breaker – a follow-up (though not a proper sequel)…