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Nintendo shipped the Switch Pro, priced at $55.97 (was $80), a while back, the same day the original Switch arrived, and the shape has barely needed defending since. You get a one-piece gamepad measuring 106 millimeters tall, 152 millimeters wide, and 60 millimeters thick, weighing about 246 grams. Offset analog sticks sit in the familiar Xbox arrangement, with a plus-shaped direction pad under the left stick and the four face buttons above the right. Both sticks click. Capture, Home, Plus, and Minus land where muscle memory already lives. Plastic feels dense without turning heavy, and the grips stay comfortable through long docked sessions that split Joy-Cons never quite manage.

Nintendo estimates forty hours from its 1300mAh cell, and most people seem to take it at face value. It takes roughly 6 hours to charge it using a USB-C port and the accompanying USB-C cable, which also works with a dock if you prefer to play wired. With the accompanying USB-A adaptor, you have a great deal of freedom. Pairing continues to use the little Sync button on the top edge, as it has for quite some time. Meanwhile, the player lights have been located on the bottom edge. Several of these controllers can be connected to a single console at once.

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The HD rumble in these handles continues to impress in the games that actually use it, as game designers appear to prefer showing off rains, footsteps, as well as engine noise as textures rather than a generic rumble. Motion sensing is important in games like Splatoon; it is also used in Zelda for bow aiming, and there are numerous other games that make use of it. Simply tap an amiibo near the Nintendo logo, and the NFC reader will take care of the rest. The fact that so many third-party controllers still fall short of this experience, even if their sticks appear to be fantastic on paper, speaks volumes about Nintendo’s design.

Of course, compatibility is the key to this controller’s lasting appeal. It works with the original Switch, the OLED, the Lite, and even the upcoming Switch 2, both wirelessly and via dock cable. The entire range of first-party Nintendo features are then carried over, including amiibo reading, gyro aiming, and the gorgeous HD Rumble. One minor exception remains: on a sleeping Switch 2, you cannot wake it up using the home button on this controller; instead, hit the main console button to get it starting. Steam Input on PC and official iOS 16 and later support from Nintendo itself will push the potential of this technology much further.

The analog sticks employ Alps potentiometers, which are similar to those seen in older controllers, so if you use this device regularly, you may notice some drift after a few years. The triggers are digital instead than analog. This one lacks a headphone jack, back paddles, and secret extra buttons; if those are important to you, you should look elsewhere. For the rest of us, the layout, battery life, and first-party features continue to make this an excellent pick for docked gaming with any switch model.

Paul Lagier builds spare, printable objects on YouTube, and Shiptracker began as a present. His girlfriend already followed cargo ships, tankers, and ferries on websites, reading destinations, speeds, and origins the way other people refresh a weather app. He wanted that ritual to live on a desk without a phone in hand, so he boxed a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a 7.5-inch Waveshare e-paper panel, and two rotary encoders into a pale 3D-printed shell that draws almost no power between screen updates.

Commercial trackers practically map almost every ship on the planet. You’d think MarineTraffic and other similar websites would provide an API you could use for your own small project, but they don’t, and scraping their pages is not an option. Finland managed to tackle their data challenge in a clever way. Fintraffic’s Digitraffic service simply broadcasts AIS locations and a plethora of other vessel metadata for free, at least for the Gulf of Finland, which extends between Finland, Estonia, and Russia. Norway and Singapore had similar feeds, but Finland’s stream was enough to generate a map with real ships on it.

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Now, the map is being drawn using a Waveshare 7.5-inch E-Paper HAT V2. Having multiple shades of gray makes the coastline and ship markers readable, and the greatest thing is that the screen only needs energy when the image changes, making it very power efficient. Uploading partial black-and-white updates isn’t too difficult, but partial grayscale updates take longer. That provided Paul a reason to reconsider his design later. Paul had planned to use a Pi Zero 2 W, but it proved to be too expensive, so he purchased a used Zero W with the header pins already soldered on because it was a much cheaper alternative. That older board can still connect via Wi-Fi and run current software until 2026. However, it still utilizes the largely obsolete micro-USB power port, so he had to wire a USB-C breakout directly to the power pins and order a 5-volt 3-amp supply just to be safe.

Instead of a touchscreen, two buttons do the trick, each having an encoder that spins both directions and has a pleasing click. One knob scrolls among lists and views, while the other allows you to read details about a specific ship, such as its destination, projected arrival time, speed, length, and beam. There are two options: recommended mode displays the larger or more interesting vessels, and full list allows you to scroll through every ship that is currently reporting in. You can even mark one as a favorite with a single button press. After sitting inactive for a while, the interface will switch to watch mode, a calmer layout that only shows one ship, allowing you to have it on in the background without requiring continual attention.

Having images of each ship seemed like a fantastic idea at first, but it turned out that it wasn’t an option in the end. These full-screen grayscale refreshes simply took too long. Instead, Paul simply removed the photos and added a QR code to the detail view instead. If you scan the QR code, you can easily see a snapshot as well as all of the extra records on your phone. If you prefer a written summary of the ship, an AI-generated synopsis is included in the same package. Menus are accessible in both English and German.

He worked on the enclosure using Shapr3D. The front is recessed to fit the display, but a separate back plate just holds the Pi on four screws, preventing any pressure from being applied to the glass. He also used foam tape to keep the display from sliding about. He made a several prototypes in Panchroma Muted White PLA until the holes lined up correctly, then added a bottom cover and matching knobs. You may obtain the 3mf files for the housing, cover, mounting plate, and knobs, as well as an illustrated wiring guide, directly from the shop.
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There aren’t many episodes left of Ted Lasso season 4. In fact, only two more, including this week’s chapter, remain, so there’s not much time left for it to find a match-winning goal.

AFC Richmond Women will have to do so without their star striker Gemma following the potentially serious knee injury she suffered in last week’s entry. Who, if anyone, will step up and try to get the team promoted? We’ll have to wait for this week’s installment to arrive, so read on to find out when it will.

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Hyundai rolled the Staria Camper Concept onto the CMT floor in Stuttgart in mid January 2026, only days after the Staria Electric made its Brussels debut. Visitors walked around a finished looking van with a body colored pop up roof, a galley, a shower, and a solar panel built into the lid. Officials called it a study aimed at European campers who want one vehicle for the week and the weekend. Nine months later it remains a concept. Hyundai is still collecting feedback and seeking approval before any factory build, with Europe first in line if the project moves. A recent report also raised the chance of a wider sale later.

The production version of this camper van will use the same hardware as the Staria Electric. This means it will employ an 84 kWh battery, the same 800 volt system as the Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6, and Ioniq 9, and a single 160kW front motor capable of 218PS. Official documentation estimate that the WLTP range is roughly 400km (249 miles) before the increased weight of the camper reduces that amount. The base van received a certified 430km rating in some regions, therefore we’re using the camper figure as a cautious starting point. Fast charging from 10 to 80 percent takes roughly 20 minutes on a good DC station. We might also expect 2,000 kg of braked towing capacity. To manage the extra load, they strengthened the suspension at both ends and added additional sound deadening to keep the highway runs quiet.

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When you park, simply push a button to lift the fully integrated pop-up roof, which is finished in the same material as the rest of the body. Hyundai designed the lid to make the van as aerodynamic as possible in the air and to reduce wind noise when driving. Once lifted, it provides a great view of the cabin and makes the kitchen much easier to operate. A 520-watt lightweight composite solar panel is installed on the roof. According to Hyundai, this device can recharge up to 2.6kWh a day in just five hours of bright sunlight. That trickle can either charge the traction battery or power the living systems, saving you time searching for a camping hookup.

Front captain seats rotate 180 degrees, allowing two individuals to sit facing the rear lounge. With the stroke of a button, the rear seats fold flat to form a bed for two. Some coverage of the show cars revealed other sleeping choices, including floor rails allow you to take seats or bedding out for bikes and gear. In addition, there is a folding camping screen in the galley that stretches from the roof to the seats and rear windows. That glass is smart glass; you can electrically modify how clear or shaded it is from the screen, and it is meant to provide better UV, heat, and noise control than traditional windows. A foldable table may be used inside the van or dragged out the back for outdoor dining, and the display cars had a Fiamma awning on the passenger side and a shore power connection.

Living kit is simple and electric; think of it as no-frills but functional. A 36-liter fridge fits comfortably in the van’s galley. The portable shower gets its power from the battery, which is a very cool function. The climate control in the cabin can be powered by the battery pack or, if you have a roof panel, you can also charge it from there. Staria Electric vans already feature vehicle to load connectors that allow you to operate small appliances from the traction battery, which is very convenient. None of this is a full-on motorhome kitchen; rather, it is a tiny conversion that drives like a standard tall family van most of the time.

In reality, South Korea has already sold a Staria Lounge Camper with identical living quarters, but those home market vans are powered by combustion or hybrid engines and start in the low fifties, depending on specification. Europe might get an electric only version of the camper van if Hyundai decides to go for it though. Back in January, there was some conjecture that it will be ready in late 2026 or possibly 2027, and if a specialist converter like Westfalia gets involved, it is likely to cost around the mid-fifties in pounds if you wind up in the center of the price range.
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The Microsoft co-founder said that the more present danger is bad actors with access to AI tools.

Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable to a variety of attacks, ranging from simple jamming to more sophisticated spoofing attacks. This may be changing, though, as Galileo, Europe’s GNSS, recently demonstrated its first cryptographically-secured position fix under spoofing conditions.

Most GNSS systems, including GPS, have no verification measures to keep an adversary from transmitting a false signal at a higher power and hijacking a receiver; since GNSS signals are extremely weak by the time they reach the ground, this presents no great difficulty to a moderately well-equipped attacker.

Galileo’s Signal Authentication System (SAS) aims to fix this. The Galileo ground station pre-selects signal spreading codes, which it then encrypts with a regularly-changing secret key and publishes. A receiver which anticipates needing a verified signal can then download these encrypted codes ahead of time and store them. Galileo satellites then transmit on the E6-C pilot signal, and the receiver records the signal. After transmitting a message block, it then transmits the decryption key on a separate signal, which the receiver uses to recover the spreading codes. The receiver then correlates these spreading codes with the recorded signal to find the satellite’s pseudorange.

It’s a rather complicated system, but it works: earlier this month in Andøya, Norway, the annual Jammertest GNSS testing event took place. For one week, a wide range of organizations tested the resilience of their GNSS systems against various attacks, including jamming, delayed retransmission, and spoofing. Using five Galileo satellites, the European Space Agency was able to obtain a stable lock on their receiver even during spoofing.

In principle, this method could be extended to other GNSS systems. There’s certainly motivation to do so; very large-scale attacks have been demonstrated recently.