Democratic values were already under threat around the world before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now we need to rekindle the spirit of 1989.

The humble lamp can come in many different forms, but nearly all of them feature a singular bulb that is uninspired and only responds to a light switch or potentially an app. YouTuber Tom Ouwerkerk, on the other hand, has designed a creative light accessory that is entirely 3D-printed and includes an intelligent central bulb that “magically” levitates above the base, defying gravity.

For the base of the lamp, Ouwerkerk printed a simple ring with a cutout on its side for plugging in a DC barrel jack. From there, he added an Arduino Nano Every that is responsible for controlling a strip of four WS2812B RGB LEDs and sensing if the bulb has been placed into its off position. When the bulb isn’t resting on top of the base, its top magnet gets attracted to the other magnet, which faces down from the top of the lamp and helps pull it upwards for the floating effect.

As seen in Ouwerkerk’s demo video below, the lamp produces a wide range of diffused colors while appearing as an elegant display piece. You can read more about this project and check out its design files on Instructables.

“Endurance” is discovered beneath sea ice, nearly two miles beneath the ocean.

Valve President calls metaverse a problem that was solved a decade ago.

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and CEO of Valve Corporation, the company that gave us iconic games like Half-Life and Portal, does not believe in the hype around the metaverse.

In an interview with PC Mag, Newell even went on to say “Most of the people who are talking about metaverse have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about”. ## The hype around the Metaverse.

After rebranding his former social media company, Zuckerberg spent billions of dollars in the last quarter of 2021 trying to build the metaverse. A survey conducted last month found that 78 percent of Americans who knew about the metaverse thought that it was all just hype. It wouldn’t probably ring very well for Mark Zuckerberg if he knew that 65 percent of people in this survey did not want to purchase anything in the metaverse.

While Newell wasn’t talking about one person per se, he called the metaverse ideas floating around a bunch of get rich quick schemes\.

Mark Zuckerberg is spending billions to build and promote the Metaverse, but what does it really offer that we do not already have?

Primarily more oil, gas, rare earths and other natural resources, fertile grounds…

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The World Health Organization has confirmed that the new variant, dubbed Deltacron — a combination of Delta and Omicron — has been detected in the France, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Deep below the crust of Earth, past the thick mantle and liquid outer core, lies a 1,220-kilometer (760 mile) ball of solid inner core.

But a new study has suggested that the inner core is not solid at all, instead forming a ‘superionic state’ with hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, making it unlike either a liquid or a solid.

We can’t exactly drill down the 6,371 km (3,959 miles) to the center of the Earth to check what’s going on, so scientists use Earth’s natural drill – seismic waves from earthquakes – to understand the composition of our planet.

A group of researchers were able to alter the genes of unfertilized mice embryos so that it could create offspring without male sperm.