A full-service eyecare facility isn’t something you’d expect to find inside a Staples store, but four Philadelphia-area Staples are now hosting store-in-store locations for Stanton Optical, a division ...

Adapter-based optical compression for long documents using DeepSeek's DeepEncoder with Qwen3-VL-2B. Built on DeepSeek-OCR by DeepSeek-AI. This repo includes deepencoder.py from DeepSeek-OCR ...

The LightGen chip is orders of magnitude more efficient too. But it isn't ready to break out of the lab just yet. As generative AI models grow more powerful, their energy use is becoming a serious ...

An unexpected revisit to my earlier post on mouse encoder hacking sparked a timely opportunity to reexamine quadrature encoders, this time with a clearer lens and a more targeted focus on their signal ...

Build a basic optocoupler to protect and isolate circuits easily, perfect for DIY electronics projects Full list of US airports with no TSA—and no long lines Iran rejects US peace talks proposal, ...

Brighton, N.Y. — Monroe Community College announced Tuesday a more than $3 million investment that it said will help strengthen the nation's first optical systems technology associate degree program.

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the universe to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week. In Hackaday ...