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Scotland’s Singular Photonics secures €1.85 million to scale SPAD image sensors with on-chip computing

Singular Photonics, an Edinburgh-based fabless semiconductor company developing SPAD (single photon avalanche diode) image sensors with on-chip computation, has closed an oversubscribed €1.85 million…

  • Edinburgh-based Singular Photonics raises €1.85 million in funding round
  • Former Arm CTO Dipesh Patel joins board of directors
  • Funding accelerates sensor portfolio expansion and new feature deployment

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Building a Change & Alert Engine That Webhooks Any Diff on Any URL

Most data jobs re-pull the whole source every run and waste time and money on data that didn't move. A change-detection engine wakes up, checks what actually changed, and pushes only the diff.

  • Engine detects changes on any URL, sends only differences
  • Polls source once per schedule, auto-sniffs content format
  • Supports JSON, RSS/Atom, HTML; emits changes with before/after

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React Portals: How They Work and When to Use Them for Modals and Tooltips

You’ve probably built a modal or tooltip in React and hit a weird snag: the overlay appears visually outside your usual component tree, but events don’t behave as you expect.

  • React portals render children outside normal DOM tree position.
  • Portalized components like modals, tooltips benefit from divs outside root container.
  • Proper event handling and focus management required for portalized UI elements.

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Get better color accuracy on your TV with these simple steps

Even if it has impressive out-of-the-box color, your new (or old) TV can always benefit from a few simple tweaks to get the best color accuracy possible.

  • Adjust color temperature to achieve desired warmth or coolness.
  • Modify color saturation for balance between vibrancy and clarity.
  • Fine-tune red, green, and blue levels for precise color accuracy.

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The Hisense U8QG is one of the smartest TV buys I can recommend

The Hisense U8QG delivers premium features at a midrange price and wins a ZDNET Lab Award for the most accurate color reproduction.

  • Hisense U8QG is a 65-inch smart TV with ULED technology
  • TV performs well in bright rooms with Ultra Local Dimming
  • U8QG offers 165Hz motion rate and USB-C port for PC gaming

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I took on big tech. We need to get it right this time

Something is shifting. In July, New York became the first state in the country to impose a moratorium on hyperscale data centers—the power-devouring facilities that fuel artificial intelligence —so that the state could actually study what they do to communities before letting them consume more of the grid.

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