Lunar Module pilot Charles Duke saluting the US flag during Apollo 16. (Credit: NASA) Imagine: you spent years training for a sojourn to the Moon, flew there on top of a Saturn V rocket as part of Apollo 16, to ultimately land on the lunar surface. You then spend the next few days on the
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon’s GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q: On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of work. (“Yes, that number is crazy but, real,”
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader theodp shared this anecdote about Amazon’s GenAI assistant for software development, Amazon Q: On Thursday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy took to Twitter to boast that using Amazon Q to do Java upgrades has already saved Amazon from having to pay for 4,500 developer-years of work. (“Yes, that number is crazy but, real,”
Read More[Chuck Hellebuyck] wanted to clone some model car raceway track and realised that by scanning the profile section of the track with a flatbed scanner and post-processing in Tinkercad, a useable cross-section model could be created. This was then extruded into 3D to make a pretty accurate-looking clone of the original part. Of course, using
Read More“It’s going to be violent,” warns the creator of Terminator Zero, an eight-episode anime series premiering Thursday August 29th on Netflix. “It’s going to be dark, it’s going to be horrific, and it’s going to be arresting.” And the Netflix blog has now shared the first six minutes online: In the world of Terminator, the
Read MoreWe got game emulators in the app store, as a treat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair. They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is reportedly in custody after being arrested near Paris Saturday evening as he was departing his private jet. The billionaire was apprehended on a warrant related to a preliminary investigation, writes Reuters. French authorities believe that the platform’s lack of moderation has “allowed criminal
Read MoreMicrosoft will meet with CrowdStrike and other security companies” on September 10, reports CNBC, to “discuss ways to evolve” the industry after a faulty CrowdStrike software update in July caused millions of Windows computers to crash: [An anonymous Microsoft executive] said participants at the Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit will explore the possibility of having
Read MoreAfter months of will-they won’t-they in interviews and press junkets, it appears that Warner Bros. Has picked up options of some of the main characters of the show, in preparation for a fourth season. Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso A new report claims that Warner Bros. has picked up the options on Hannah Waddingham, Brett
Read MoreThe fake AliExpress-sourced IRFP460 MOSFETs (Credit: Learn Electronics Repair, YouTube) These days, it’s super-easy to jump onto the World Wide Web to find purported replacement parts using nothing but the part identifier, whether it’s from a reputable source like Digikey or Mouser or from more general digital fleamarkets like eBay and AliExpress. It’s hardly a
Read MoreBoeing “will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts,” reports CNBC. Though they’ve been on the space station since early June, the plan is to have them stay “for about six more months before flying home in February on SpaceX’s Crew-9 vehicle. “The test flight was originally intended to
Read MoreHe was employee #13 at Apple Computers — after impressing Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs with his “blue box” phone-phreaking technique. Now 81-year-old John “Captain Crunch” Draper has launched a new YouTube channel and web site. “I spent decades exploring the depths of communication technology,” Draper says in a recent video, “always pushing the boundaries
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A leaker suggests a Xiaomi 15 Ultra could land in January 2025. This would directly compete with the Galaxy S25 Ultra, which is also expected in the same month. This suggests the “Ultra” phone isn’t going anywhere next year. For a few years now, the best Android phones have
Read MoreUnder the streets of New York City, they’re testing a “quantum network,” reports Phys.org — where engineers from a Brooklyn company named Qunnect Inc are taking steps to “overcome the fragility of entangled states in a fiber cable and ensure the efficiency of signal delivery.” For their prototype network, the Qunnect researchers used a leased
Read MoreCredit: Telegram An early beta of Android 15 offered active noise cancelation (ANC) and spatial audio controls baked right into the new volume control panel. However, Google then removed these features, leading us to believe it might not land with the full, stable launch of the OS. Now, via an issue tracker page for the
Read MoreAlien: Romulus director Fede Ãlvarez “briefly dropped into an Alien franchise subreddit this week to chat with fans about his new sequel,” reports Deadline. “But the moderators weren’t having it, flagging Ãlvarez as an imposter in a notice that he is ‘permanently banned’ from the subreddit.” The moderator shared an update that Ãlvarez “was immediately
Read MoreThe Era 100 might resemble a roll of paper towels, but it remains our default smart speaker. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos’ Labor Day sale is bringing discounts to a variety of smart speakers and soundbars until September 2nd, many of which are on sale elsewhere for the same price. Both
Read MoreIn theory, the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold should be a dream for capturing hands-free photos of yourself and your friends. Fold it halfway, stand it on something, and use a gesture to snap a picture — easy, right? Well, technically, yes, but I can still count on one hand the number of times I’ve
Read MoreIn theory, the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold should be a dream for capturing hands-free photos of yourself and your friends. Fold it halfway, stand it on something, and use a gesture to snap a picture — easy, right? Well, technically, yes, but I can still count on one hand the number of times I’ve
Read MorePlus: The US intelligence community formally blames Iran for Trump campaign hack, aircraft-tracking platform FlightAware says a “configuration error” exposed sensitive user data, and more.
Read MoreWhatsApp, the popular Meta-owned messaging platform, is reportedly developing a new feature that will allow users to replace mobile numbers with usernames and pins for their accounts for added privacy. WABetaInfo, a known WhatsApp tipster publication, discovered the new feature in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.18.2 update, which is available on the Google Play
Read MoreThe simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the center of a collection of numbers. Here the trick lies in defining the exact type of numeric collection, as beyond the arithmetic mean (AM for short, the sum of all values divided by their number) there are many more, with
Read MoreChinese scientists have developed a new method to produce significant quantities of water from lunar soil brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission in 2020, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The “brand-new method” involves heating moon minerals containing hydrogen to generate water vapor, which could be crucial for future lunar research stations and space exploration. Reuters reports:
Read MoreReally, [OzzieGerff] had us at “LEGO.” But then he took it to another place entirely and built a completely mechanical, nearly 100% LEGO version of Snake. And it’s just as cool as it sounds. Mind you, it’s a little hard to grok how this whole contraption works, which has been in the works for a
Read MoreReally, [OzzieGerff] had us at “LEGO.” But then he took it to another place entirely and built a completely mechanical, nearly 100% LEGO version of Snake. And it’s just as cool as it sounds. Mind you, it’s a little hard to grok how this whole contraption works, which has been in the works for a
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