Geeky Gadgets

Skip the Magic Keyboard with a Standalone Touch ID Desktop Interface

Apple’s Touch ID has become a recognizable feature for biometric authentication, but its use has largely been confined to devices with built-in hardware. Alpaca Engineering introduces a standalone ...
Ars Technica

OpenAI’s first branded hardware is… a light-up keyboard?

As rumors continue to swirl about OpenAI’s work on a personalized smart speaker and other hardware, the company is today rolling out its first branded device. The $230 Codex Micro is a specialized, ...
note

[Archived] How to write mathematical formulas in note | Notation for inline/multi-line and conversion rules when reposting from Obsidian

Have you ever wanted to include beautiful mathematical formulas in your note articles? When writing study notes or explanatory articles, there are surprisingly many situations where mathematical ...
AndroGuider

Revolutionizing Communication: Acti Integrates AI Agents into Smartphone Keyboards

**Acti** has launched the world's first "Agentic Keyboard," embedding AI agents directly into text fields on both iOS and Android to turn user intent into immediate action without leaving the app. The ...
Digi Times

Taiwan keyboard and camera module maker Chicony turns to Edge AI vision to counter weaker PC demand

Despite geopolitical tensions and component shortages weighing on the global economy, Chicony Electronics maintained solid profitability in 2025 by upgrading its product mix, delivering the ...
GitHub

Enhancing Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition with Convolutional Block Attention Refinement Module and Multi-Task Learning

Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition (HMER) is challenging due to complex structural relationships, implicit symbols, and variations in handwriting styles. Therefore, this paper presents a ...
Hacker

PDFs to Intelligence: How To Auto-Extract Python Manual Knowledge Recursively Using Ollama, LLMs

We’ll demonstrate an end-to-end data extraction pipeline engineered for maximum automation, reproducibility, and technical rigor. Our goal is to transform unstructured PDF documentation—like the ...
Interesting Engineering

New AR system turns common surfaces into high-precision keyboards for faster input

PropType AR interface demonstrationThe University of Texas at Dallas Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have built a new augmented reality interface that lets users type on everyday ...
GitHub

Default keyboard-state module causes segfault after finding keyboard

I'm trying to set up Waybar for the first time (using swayfx), and the keyboard-state module seems to cause a segmentation fault. I narrowed it down to this module by commenting all of the modules out ...
C&EN

Correction to “Ugropy: An Extensible Python Package for Thermodynamic Model Functional Group Identification via Mathematical Optimization”

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. In our recently published article, we compared different ...
IEEE

Uncertainty Analysis of the Interface Thermal Resistance between Power Module and Heatsink

Abstract: Thermal resistance of the Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) between power module and heatsink plays a significant role in thermal stress. This paper investigates the variances in thermal ...