“One London resident watched on CCTV as a thief walked up to his £40,000 car and drove away,” reports the Observer. “Now manufacturers say they are being drawn in to a hi-tech ‘arms race’ with criminals.” [H]i-tech devices disguised as handheld games consoles are being traded online for thousands of pounds and are used by
Read MoreThe fake NBA Top Shot tweet. | Image: X / @wojespn People who still use NBA Top Shot were the primary targets of a scam tweet posted to ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s account on X Saturday evening at about 6:30PM ET. The tweet referred to NBA Top Shot as a “popular” NFT platform, despite the
Read More“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics, last week awarded Dr. Wu its Sjöberg Prize in honor of ‘decisive contributions’ to cancer research,” reports CNN. Their profile of the oncologist from Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute notes Dr. Wu’s research “has laid the scientific foundation for the development of
Read More“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics, last week awarded Dr. Wu its Sjöberg Prize in honor of ‘decisive contributions’ to cancer research,” reports CNN. Their profile of the oncologist from Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute notes Dr. Wu’s research “has laid the scientific foundation for the development of
Read More“If you drive a car in California, you may be in for a payday thanks to a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by a Texas company,” report SFGate: The 2021 lawsuit, given class-action status in September, alleges that Digital Recognition Network is breaking a California law meant to regulate the use of automatic license plate readers.
Read MoreYou’ve probably played some version of Tetris, but [the Center for Creative Learning] has a different take on it. Their latest version features a cylindrical playing field. While it wouldn’t be simple to wire up all those LEDs, it is a little easier, thanks to LED strips. You can find the code for the game
Read MoreApple’s Configurator is one way to restore or recover a Mac. Here’s how to use it to revive an Apple Silicon Mac. Apple Configurator There may be times when you need to restore your Mac to a previous state – or to revive your Mac when it stops working for some reason. Apple’s device provisioning
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In 2012, Microsoft President Brad Smith unveiled Microsoft’s National Talent Strategy, which called for K-12 Computer Science education for U.S. schoolchildren to address a “talent crisis [that] endangers long-term growth and prosperity”. The following year, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org burst onto the scene to deliver that education to schoolchildren, with Smith
Read MoreA student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.
Read MoreOn Wednesday Boeing “removed executive Ed Clark, the head of its 737 Max passenger jet program,” reports CNN, “after a dramatic — and terrifying — midair blowout in January underscored ongoing problems with the jet.” A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board found that the four bolts that should have held the door
Read MoreIf you have mischievous children or forgetful elderly in your life, you might want to build a couple of these tiny motion detection alarms to help keep them out of harm’s way. Maybe you want to keep yourself out of the cookie jar. We say good for you. But you could always put one of
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: In 2012, Microsoft President Brad Smith unveiled Microsoft’s National Talent Strategy, which called for K-12 Computer Science education for U.S. schoolchildren to address a “talent crisis [that] endangers long-term growth and prosperity”. The following year, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org burst onto the scene to deliver that education to schoolchildren, with Smith
Read MoreWelcome to the 523rd edition of Android Apps Weekly, where we discuss the latest in mobile news and take a closer look at some of the most interesting new apps and games. Let’s jump right in and take a look at some of the biggest highlights from the last week: Google Pay is following the
Read MoreThe ESR Stylus Pen hopes to solve the expense issue of the Apple Pencil by offering a more affordable option with almost all the same features as Apple’s version. ESR Stylus Pen review: Stylus Pen ready to write and create When the Apple Pencil was first introduced, the public made fun of it by referencing
Read MoreSergey Brin at a World Economic Forum session in 2017. | Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images Google co-founder Sergey Brin is facing a wrongful death lawsuit from the widow of one of two pilots who died in a plane crash off the coast of California in May 2023. It blames a
Read MoreTechTarget notes it was Linkerd’s original developers who coined the term “service mesh” — describing their infrastructure layer for communication between microservices. But “There has to be some way of connecting the businesses that are being built on top of Linkerd back to funding the project,” argues Buoyant CEO William Morgan. “If we don’t do
Read MoreThe Guardian reports: The Covid death toll in the U.S. is likely at least 16% higher than the official tally, according to a new study, and researchers believe the cause of the undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testing. The second year of the
Read MoreWindows users might have noticed an ‘Lsass.exe’ process on their task manager. LSASS, or Local Security Authorization Subsystem Service, is crucial for Windows-based PCs/Laptops. The lsass.exe is a task that authenticates users and logs them in. The process also keeps track of all security policies & generates log alerts for the security events that happen
Read More“Crypto mines will have to start reporting their energy use in the U.S.,” wrote the Verge in January, saying America’s Energy department would “begin collecting data on crypto mines’ electricity use, following criticism from environmental advocates over how energy-hungry those operations are.” But then “constitutional freedoms” group New Civil Liberties Alliance (founded with seed money
Read MoreStack Overflow’s blog reports on a new programming language called Mariposa. They call it a “toy” programming language, “created as a way to play around with a novel or odd feature, like variable assignment outside of the normal order of execution — more colloquially, time travel.” Computer science has long sought to reason about time
Read MoreOn Windows 10 and 11, you have a ‘Show Desktop’ button that sits at the right end of your taskbar. The purpose of the Show Desktop button is to minimize all your open Windows to give you a view of your desktop. Users who often access various programs and files from the desktop are overly
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: Dynabook Americas, the company formerly known as Toshiba, has recalled 15.5 million Toshiba laptop AC adapters over potential burn and fire hazards. The company said it received 679 reports of the recalled AC adapters overheating or catching on fire, melting and burning, including 43 reports of minor
Read MoreOccasionally, the extra features added to a product can negate some of the reasons you wanted to buy the thing in the first place. Take, for example, Apple’s AirTag — billed as an affordable way to link your physical stuff to your phone. If some light-fingered ne’er-do-well wanders by and half-inches your gear, you get
Read MoreChat Assist on the S24 Plus is a sometimes-helpful part of Galaxy AI. Credit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority For better or worse, AI is shaping up to be the cornerstone of smartphones for the foreseeable future. Google’s Pixel 8 and the Samsung Galaxy S24 series are already imbued with various AI capabilities, while many
Read MoreOn Wednesday afternoon “a European Space Agency satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the North Pacific Ocean…” reports CNN, “and there have been no reports of damage, according to the agency.” The agency’s Space Debris Office, along with an international surveillance network, monitored and tracked the Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite throughout February to make predictions about the
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