Gizmodo

Ancient ‘Dial-a-Poem’ Service Rises From the Grave, Lets You Use Your Phone as a Phone

There's something rather poetic about a service designed to breathe life back into poetry getting resurrected after all these years. Reading time 2 minutes We rarely use our phones as actual ...
Wired

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants

Since March 2025, the Trump administration has used tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out “DEI” and “gender ideology" from child welfare programs. Neither Palantir nor HHS has ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Musk Considers Timing SpaceX IPO With Planetary Alignment, FT Reports

Elon Musk has suggested timing a possible initial public offering of SpaceX to coincide with a planetary phenomenon and his birthday in June, the Financial Times reported. The owner of the rocket ...
Houston Chronicle

AOL's dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era

NEW YORK (AP) — It's official: AOL's dial-up internet has taken its last bow. AOL previously confirmed it would be pulling the plug on Tuesday (Sept. 30) — writing in a brief update on its support ...
AOL

AOL Shuts Down Dial-Up for Good — But Tributes Pour in for the Nostalgic Service

The end of an era. AOL has officially hung up the phone on its decades-spanning dial-up internet service. The corporation previously announced that these specific services would be discontinued on ...
Yahoo

AOL pulls the plug on dial-up internet service after 30+ years

(NewsNation) — AOL’s dial-up internet, once a household gateway to the web, is officially going offline. The company announced it will officially shut down its decades-old service on Tuesday, marking ...
USA Today

AOL hangs up the dial-up internet service (and sound) that defined an era

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...
IEEE

IMU Alignment using Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Abstract: The problem of determining the relative orientation of a personal sensor device and a land vehicle is fundamental to all analysis that aims to use inertial measurements from that same device ...
IEEE

Enhancing Measurement Accuracy of Nanolithography Alignment Using 2-D Hamming Self-Convolution Window

Abstract: The Moiré fringe technique is an effective approach for achieving nanolithography alignment. However, the accuracy of fringe phase extraction is compromised by spectral leakage. Due to their ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Sounds of AOL Dial-Up Defined the Early Internet. Now, the Service Is Shutting Down for Good

A collection of CDs advertising AOL's dial-up internet services Sipa USA / Alamy Live News It was the soundtrack of the early internet: When AOL dial-up users wanted to go online in the 1990s, they ...