An engineer has turned a discarded disposable vape into a functioning web server — and the stunt is more than a neat hack: it’s a concise demonstration of how tiny, low-cost microcontrollers embedded in throwaway consumer goods can be repurposed to run real network stacks and serve pages, while...
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The past week in tech has been crowded with advancements—some long-awaited, others carrying a sense of urgency—and pushes the digital world a little further, for better and worse. From Microsoft Edge’s new direction on mobile to deepening concerns about browser security exploits, these...