An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld on the new certifications from the Open Source Hardware Association: The goal of certification is to clearly identify open-source hardware separate from the mish-mash of other hardware products. The certification allows hardware designs to be…
Yesterday Saw $3.3 Billion In Online Purchases
Friday humanity set a new record for the most money ever spent online in a single day — and the most ever purchased on mobile devices. An anonymous reader writes: Online sales reached $3.34 billion yesterday, up 11.3% from the…
Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are two investors in Bridge International Academies. But in Uganda, the group’s 63 schools have been “ordered to shut down in a matter of weeks, leaving the lives of thousands of pupils in limbo.” An…
Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller
“Did you ever think it would be great if hardware was open to the transistor level, not just the chip level?” writes hamster_nz, pointing to a new Crowd Supply campaign for the OnChip Open-V microcontroller, “a completely free (as in…
Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump
Lawrence Lessig’s new op-ed in the Washington Post argues against the idea “that the person who lost the popular vote this year must nonetheless become our president.” (Paywalled version here, free version here.) Lessig points out that the electoral college…