“If you’re wandering around Singapore anytime soon, take some time to wave hi to your friendly neighborhood snitch bot,” writes Gizmodo:
Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) will be deploying two robots named “Xavier” that the age…
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance collected its second rock sample this week — and Friday Caltech’s Ken Farley, a project scientist for the mission, announced that they’ve learned something.
“It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”
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Tonight 71-year-old Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tweeted ten words: “A Private space company is starting up, unlike the others.”
The tweet also included the URL for a new video just uploaded tonight to YouTube about a company called Privateer.
“Tog…
The Wall Street Journal reports an interesting observation about America. “Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.”
Slashdot reader Joe_Dragon shared their report:
At the close …
Were Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos symptomatic of something larger? The BBC’s North America tech reporter writes that in Silicon Valley, many believe that the story, “far from being an aberration — speaks of systemic problems with start-up cultur…
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot quotes Engadget:
Hold off on purchasing that iPhone mount for your motorbike.
In a new Apple Support post first seen by MacRumors, the tech giant has warned that high amplitude vibrations, “specifically those g…
The Guardian tells the story of “a viral sensation in the global underworld,” the high-security An0m phones, which launched with “a grassroots marketing campaign, identifying so-called influencers — ‘well-known crime figures who wield significant…
The New York Times reports:
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland are working to determine whether three uranium cubes they have in their possession were produced by Germany’s failed nuclear program dur…
Alain Williams (Slashdot reader #2972) brings this report from the BBC:
Boeing’s board of directors must face a lawsuit from shareholders over two fatal crashes involving its 737 Max plane, a U.S. judge has ruled. Morgan Zurn said the first crash was …
This weekend finds some long-time Slashdot readers debating why research shows Firefox losing market share. Long-time Slashdot reader chiguy shares one theory: “Firefox keeps losing users, according to this rant, because it arrogantly refuses to listen…
