John Gordon Ross

Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.

Slashdot » Burger King Won't Take Hint, Updates Ad To Trigger Google Home Devices Again

Saturday 15 April 23:34:00 UTC 2017

Burger King "successfully ran an alternate version of its advertisement designed to trigger Google Home devices late Wednesday," according to the Washington Post. Long-time Slashdot reader ewhac writes that "According to spokesperson Dara Schopp, BK regards the ad as a success, as it has increased the brand's 'social conversation' on Twitter by some 300%," though he's not a fan of … [Link]

Mashable » This electric skateboard will change your commute forever

Saturday 15 April 23:00:00 UTC 2017

The second-generation Boosted Board is an electric longboard with two motors attached to a belt-drive system. It can go 22 mph and is easy to use. Read more…More about 2017, Review, Reviews, Electric Longboard, and Longboard [Link]

Mashable » It sure looks like the Galaxy S8's battery won't explode even if you stab it with a knife

Saturday 15 April 22:51:03 UTC 2017

Samsung's Galaxy S8 blends beautiful design and performance effortlessly, but how much safer is its battery compared to the Galaxy Note 7? In January, Samsung announced it would implement a new "8-point battery safety check" that would not only put all of its future phone batteries through extreme testing, but also include x-ray and human inspection checks. A newly uploaded … [Link]

Mashable » This is how you become the boss legend of high school, meet, Hail Boy

Saturday 15 April 22:37:06 UTC 2017

Challenging Mother Nature is never a good idea. Legends have been written about arrogant humans who perished trying to defiantly piss into the wind.  But sometimes you need to show the entire school that you're a badass — pneumonia and skin damage be damned.  SEE ALSO: One lucky high school just made $24 million in Snap's IPO That's apparently what one … [Link]

Slashdot » Cadillac's Hands-Free Driving Option Also Nags Inattentive Drivers

Saturday 15 April 22:34:00 UTC 2017

Using LIDAR sensors, Cadillac mapped 160,000 miles of U.S. highways "within five centimeters of accuracy" to give its hands-free-on-the-highway cars the ability to better anticipate the roads ahead — and to know when a human driver should take over. An anonymous reader writes: "The car can see farther than the sensors on the car with the map…" says the chief … [Link]

Mashable » SpaceVR, SpaceX to launch VR camera into space, bringing the astronaut experience to all

Saturday 15 April 21:42:44 UTC 2017

A couple of years ago we told you about a future project from startup SpaceVR that would send virtual reality cameras into orbit in order bring back immersive space video to VR users on Earth.  On Friday, I held that future in my very hands, and it felt like most space bound objects — surprisingly clunky, but packed with all the … [Link]

Mashable » Why is Walmart buying up brands?

Saturday 15 April 21:36:27 UTC 2017

Walmart is buying up a lot of brands that don't really feel like Walmart.  The big box store is reportedly about to close a deal to buy Bonobos, the men's e-commerce brandRecode reported news of the impending acquisition on Friday. Exactly how much Bonobos will go for hasn't been confirmed yet.  The deal would come one month after Walmart bought ModCloth, … [Link]

Slashdot » GOP Congressman Defending Privacy Vote: 'Nobody's Got To Use The Internet'

Saturday 15 April 21:34:00 UTC 2017

Wisconsin congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. defended his decision to help repeal broadband privacy rules by telling a constituent, "Nobody's got to use the Internet." An anonymous reader quotes the 73-year-old congressman: "And the thing is that if you start regulating the Internet like a utility, if we did that right at the beginning, we would have no Internet… Internet … [Link]

Mashable » Facebook cracks down on bogus 'likes' and zombie accounts in battle against fake news

Saturday 15 April 21:31:23 UTC 2017

News isn't the only thing that's sometimes fake on Facebook. The social network said Friday it has shut down a massive spam operation that generated thousands of "inauthentic likes" on publisher pages. SEE ALSO: Facebook is cracking down on hoaxes in your News Feed The announcement comes days after the company claimed to have deleted 30,000 fraudulent accounts in France ahead … [Link]

Mashable » Roaming alligator walks right up to doorstep in *drumroll* … Florida

Saturday 15 April 21:23:28 UTC 2017

Today’s hopefully unnecessary PSA: do not answer the door for an alligator. Police in Sarasota County, Florida, shared photos Wednesday of a rogue alligator that, while wandering a neighborhood, trudged right up to the front door of a house. It later tried its luck at the garage door, too, but no one let it in. Imagine! SEE ALSO: Fisherman finds a … [Link]

Mashable » This Starbucks barista will draw an awesome caricature of you on your cup

Saturday 15 April 20:53:18 UTC 2017

What’s better than walking out of Starbucks with a cup of your preferred caffeinated beverage just the way you like it? How about a cute caricature of yourself drawn on your cup? SEE ALSO: Starbucks could be jumping onto the unicorn train with a new drink Jason Tocewicz is not your typical Starbucks barista. He's become something of a local superstar … [Link]

Slashdot » Unpatched Magento Zero Day Leaves 200,000 Merchants Vulnerable

Saturday 15 April 20:34:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes ThreatPost: A popular version of the open source Magento ecommerce platform is vulnerable to a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability, putting as many as 200,000 online retailers at risk… According Bosko Stankovic, information security engineer at DefenseCode, despite repeated efforts to notify Magento, which began in November 2016, the vulnerability remains unpatched despite four version updates … [Link]

Mashable » All the best signs from Tax Day protests against President Trump

Saturday 15 April 20:07:33 UTC 2017

On April 15 — the day tax filings are due — thousands of Americans across the country took to the streets to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns.  As a reminder, Trump still hasn't released his tax returns, unlike every other American president and presidential candidate since Richard Nixon.  Of course, the protesters had some pretty good signs:  … [Link]

Mashable » Of course Russian hackers were behind #SyriaHoax

Saturday 15 April 20:03:25 UTC 2017

A conspiracy theory about whether a chemical weapons attack was actually perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started making the rounds shortly after that tragic incident shocked the world.  Surprise, surprise, now we know Russian social media posts fueled that conspiracy, according to ABC. SEE ALSO: Trump remembers what cake he ate but not what country he bombed and help us … [Link]

Mashable » Microsoft HoloLens delivers first ever augmented reality Easter Egg hunt

Saturday 15 April 19:46:20 UTC 2017

Easter Sunday is just hours away, and since it's 2017, and we're apparently living in the future, Microsoft has unveiled the first ever augmented reality Easter Egg hunt.  The game was unveiled this weekend in Los Angeles at the VRLA conference where Microsoft and a team of AR developers allowed me to enter a surrealist forest construct where holographic eggs could … [Link]

Mashable » 'Feud' producer talks Joan Crawford's real-life Cinderella story

Saturday 15 April 19:42:03 UTC 2017

Viewers with an appetite for quality television should hope that a Hollywood feud never erupts between writer/producer/director Tim Minear and his frequent collaborator Ryan Murphy. Between six seasons and counting of American Horror Story and the current season of Feud: Bette and Joan, they’ve turned out some of the most riveting and provocative TV content of recent years. An executive producer … [Link]

Slashdot » 'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript

Saturday 15 April 19:34:00 UTC 2017

Andy Hunt is one of the 17 software developers who wrote the Agile Manifesto, and he co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer. Now Slashdot reader cerberusss writes: In an interview with Best Programming Books, Andy Hunt mentions he "hates languages that introduce accidental complexity, such as JavaScript — what a nightmare of pitfalls for newbies and even seasoned developers… My go-to languages … [Link]

Mashable » Warren Beatty clarifies a few things about that epic Oscars flub

Saturday 15 April 19:17:03 UTC 2017

Warren Beatty knows that this year's Best Picture mishap at the Oscars was the biggest television moment of the year. No, the decade. No, the century. And he clarified a few things on Friday's Graham Norton Show. For one thing, he did not throw Faye Dunaway under the bus by making her read the erroneous card — she was meant … [Link]

Mashable » It looks like 'Star Wars: Battlefront II' will ditch the Season Pass

Saturday 15 April 19:02:00 UTC 2017

Star Wars: Battlefront II's creative director confirmed something we'd been hoping for in an interview before today's announcement: there's no season pass for the game this time around.  Assuming things stay that way — and there's kinda-maybe-possibly a chance that they won't, as you'll soon read — it suggests that Star Wars: Battlefront II is coming together with an eye toward … [Link]

Mashable » A closer look at 'Star Wars: Battlefront II's single and multiplayer modes

Saturday 15 April 19:01:00 UTC 2017

Anyone can be a hero in the Star Wars universe. If there's an overriding philosophy behind Battlefront II, it's that. From the "untold soldier's story" in the story mode to the new ways the game lets you level up your profile, the idea is to create opportunities for every player to feel like a star — at least some of the … [Link]

Mashable » 'Star Wars: Battlefront II' reveals what happened after Endor this November

Saturday 15 April 19:00:00 UTC 2017

We already had a face thanks to the leaked trailer; now we have a name, a story, and — most importantly — a release date: Nov. 17.  As for the rest of it: the hero(?) of our new Star Wars adventure is Iden Versio, who leads the Imperial special forces unit known as Inferno Squad. This elite unit — which … [Link]

Mashable » These 'Game of Thrones' photos are full of Easter eggs … can you find them?

Saturday 15 April 19:00:00 UTC 2017

You know how, whenever a highly-anticipated new trailer or promo comes out, people scour it for Easter eggs? Those small, hidden, and usually fan service-y morsels of information? You know what we're talking about. Anyway, those are fine, but regular Easter eggs — like, literal eggs — are better. So we put a bunch of them in photos from Game of … [Link]

Mashable » #UninstallSnapchat is taking off in India after an allegedly terrible comment from Snap's CEO

Saturday 15 April 18:55:13 UTC 2017

The latest app to delete? Snapchat.  Snapchat users in India have been deleting the app since learning about a comment allegedly made by Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel in 2015.  “This app is only for rich people,” Spiegel allegedly said at the time, during discussions about Snapchat's overseas growth. “I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.” … [Link]

Mashable » In the rapidly expanding Mastodon fediverse, there's an instance for everyone

Saturday 15 April 18:47:48 UTC 2017

Burners, furries, book lovers, bots, cuties, pizza lovers — there's a place for everyone in the federated Mastodon universe. And if there isn't yet, there soon will be.  SEE ALSO: Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon. The distributed social network Mastodon burst into the popular consciousness last week, and is expanding at a rapid clip. There are … [Link]

Slashdot » RIP, Robert Taylor, The Innovator Who Shaped Modern Computing

Saturday 15 April 18:34:00 UTC 2017

"Any way you look at it, from kick-starting the Internet to launching the personal computer revolution, Bob Taylor was a key architect of our modern world," says a historian at Stanford's Silicon Valley Archives. An anonymous reader quotes the New York Times: The Internet, like many inventions, was the work of many inventors. But perhaps no one deserves more credit … [Link]

Mashable » Got a busted iPad 4 that needs repairing? Apple might swap it for an iPad Air 2

Saturday 15 April 18:20:24 UTC 2017

If you own a broke down iPad 4, things are looking up for you.   According to an internal memo obtained by 9to5Mac, Apple's been telling repair staff at Apple Stores and authorized service providers that fourth-generation iPads brought in for servicing may be swapped out with an iPad Air 2. SEE ALSO: iPad 2017 review: $329 gets you a new … [Link]

Mashable » Watch April the giraffe's new baby figure out this whole 'walking' thing

Saturday 15 April 17:50:51 UTC 2017

April the giraffe's much-anticipated new calf is only a few hours old, but it's already very busy doing fun activities. Standing and walking, for example. As is to be expected, the baby was quite wobbly at first. In fact, its first attempts at standing up went extremely — albeit adorably — awry. SEE ALSO: April the giraffe is raking in … [Link]

Slashdot » Troll With 'Stupid Patent' Sues EFF. EFF Sues Them Back

Saturday 15 April 17:34:00 UTC 2017

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued an Australian company that it previously dubbed as a 'classic patent troll' in a June 2016 blog post entitled: Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer." An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica: Last year, that company, Global Equity Management (SA) Pty. Ltd. (GEMSA), managed to get an Australian court to order … [Link]

Mashable » Russia adds gun slinging to its humanoid space robot's list of helpful skills

Saturday 15 April 17:29:12 UTC 2017

Just in time for the rise in global military tensions, Russian officials have released video that's sure to calm fears all around: a death dealing humanoid robot that shoots handguns.  SEE ALSO: Bizarre Boston Dynamics robot moves like a world-class athlete Posted to Twitter on Friday by Russia's deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, the video shows the country's space robot FEDOR … [Link]

Mashable » Soviet propaganda posters warned citizens of the evils of alcohol

Saturday 15 April 17:00:00 UTC 2017

c. 1986"Little by little, and you end up with a hooligan. Tolerance of drinking is dangerous. There is but a step from drinking to crime."Image: Unknown artist/alcohol by fuel publishingFrom the 1960s through the 1980s, artists throughout the Soviet Union designed propaganda posters to warn the public of the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption.With striking, colorful graphics and stark metaphors, the … [Link]

Slashdot » Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail

Saturday 15 April 16:54:30 UTC 2017

Luthair writes: According to the BBC there is growing concern in the machine learning community that as their algorithms are deployed in the real world they can be easily confused by knowledgeable attackers. These algorithms don't process information in the same way humans do, a small sticker placed strategically on a sign could render it invisible to a self driving … [Link]

Mashable » Watch how far Samsung's Galaxy S8 has evolved from the original Galaxy S

Saturday 15 April 16:51:02 UTC 2017

After months of anticipation and daily leaks, Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8+ finally arrive on April 21.  The S8's got arguably the most beautiful screen ever put into a phone, packed into a sleek, elegant glass and metal design that's the result of years of refinement. But these things didn't just happen overnight. SEE ALSO: Galaxy S8 vs. iPhone 7 … [Link]

ProgrammableWeb.com » Daily API RoundUp: Microsoft, Tiny Stats, HelpSocial

Saturday 15 April 16:41:49 UTC 2017

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. [Link]

Mashable » 'Star Wars Rebels' to end with 'darker' Season 4

Saturday 15 April 16:41:22 UTC 2017

This will be a day long remembered: it marked the end of the Rebellion. Sort of.  Lucasfilm announced here at its Star Wars Celebration event that its only current TV show — the animated series Star Wars Rebels — will come to a close at the end of  season 4. SEE ALSO: Why Rose should be your new favorite Star Wars … [Link]

Slashdot » 17 Years Later, A New Season Of MST3K Premiers On Netflix

Saturday 15 April 16:04:00 UTC 2017

Launched in 1988, Mystery Science Theater 3000 ran for ten seasons on Comedy Central and The Sci-Fi Channel, with its last episode airing in August of 1999. But now Slashdot reader #5844 ewhac writes: 17 years later, Season 11 of MST3K debuted Friday on Netflix. A full season has been produced, including a stretch-goal Christmas special, funded by the highest-earning … [Link]

Mashable » Harry Styles bought kiwi for the 'SNL' line and fans think it's a clue

Saturday 15 April 15:53:53 UTC 2017

Celebrities often buy food for the people waiting in line to see them — that's nothing new. But Harry Styles went above and beyond: he sent line-dwellers queued for Saturday Night Live some big plates of sliced kiwi. And, no, it's not just because kiwi is delicious (although it is). Styles, who is the musical guest on this week's SNL, is … [Link]

Mashable » Here's why you shouldn't rush out and update your Google Pixel or Nexus

Saturday 15 April 15:41:03 UTC 2017

New software updates are great for your phone — they patch security holes and bugs and add new features — except when they break a core feature, like your phone's fingerprint sensor. According to multiple reports on Google's Pixel and Nexus product forums, the latest Android 7.1.2 Nougat update cripples the fingerprint sensor on the Pixel/Pixel XL and Nexus 5X/Nexus 6P, … [Link]

Mashable » Uber will shut down UberRush for restaurants, since it took away from Uber's actual rides business

Saturday 15 April 15:35:44 UTC 2017

Uber will eliminate its use of UberRush for restaurants as a logistics and courier delivery service, Quartz reported Friday.  The lesser-known Uber delivery service allowed restaurants and some other businesses to power their own deliveries. But as the popularity of UberEats, which allowed customers to order food directly through Uber grew, drivers who could have been picking up passengers were busy … [Link]

Mashable » Lorde debuts her new song 'Sober' just before Coachella

Saturday 15 April 15:05:00 UTC 2017

Until Friday night, Lorde hadn't given a concert in two-and-a-half years. Just before Coachella, she lived up to the hype with the debut of her new song "Sober" at a small performance in Pioneertown, Calif.  A true jam, just like "Green Light."  Read more… More about Coachella 2017, Coachella, Music, Lorde, and Watercooler [Link]

Slashdot » Remote-Access Router Exploit Finally Revealed

Saturday 15 April 15:04:00 UTC 2017

"Back in the days, Cisco fixed the vulnerability, but we are not sure about all other router vendors and models because there are too many of them," writes the DefenseCode team. Orome1 quotes a new report from Help Net Security: Back in January 2013, researchers from application security services firm DefenseCode unearthed a remote root access vulnerability in the default … [Link]

Mashable » Bill Nye shuts down flat Earth theories

Saturday 15 April 15:00:00 UTC 2017

Sorry flat Earth truthers: Bill Nye — yes, the Science Guy — has a message for you: You're wrong. SEE ALSO: A Bill Nye science talk show is coming to Netflix "There’s a movement afoot right now to deny facts and presume that one’s own belief is every bit as worthy as scientifically proven fact," Nye told Mashable in a recent … [Link]

Mashable » Old Hollywood Easter

Saturday 15 April 15:00:00 UTC 2017

Easter in old Hollywood clearly had its quirks.Take, for example, these surreal publicity shots from the early days of filmmaking, featuring young Hollywood in its Easter best.Doris Day poses in a human-sized picnic basket, while Alla Nazimova perches atop a giant mushroom, donning massive bunny ears and whiskers.But it's Jean Parker, posed alongside a bear-sized rabbit companion, who landed the oddest … [Link]

Mashable » Why Rose should be your new favorite Star Wars character

Saturday 15 April 14:53:37 UTC 2017

ORLANDO — "Look at her," said Luke Skywalker, aka Mark Hamill. "If she were any cuter, she'd be a Disney character." The object of Jedi adoration was Kelly Marie Tran, the most recently unveiled cast member of The Last Jedi. She plays a character called Rose. At Star Wars Celebration Friday, Tran endeared herself to fandom with the elaborate ruse she'd … [Link]

Mashable » April the giraffe's baby is finally here, and the internet is beyond thrilled

Saturday 15 April 14:42:31 UTC 2017

If you want someone to get out of bed early on a Saturday, tell them a famous giraffe is giving birth. Yes, friends, open your windows wide and spread the news: after what seems like an eternity of waiting, April the giraffe's little calf is finally making its grand entrance into the world. And, understandably, thousands of people — normals and … [Link]

Mashable » How Twitter king and Congressman Ted Lieu is beating Trump at his own dumb game

Saturday 15 April 14:26:53 UTC 2017

It’s depressing to admit, but let's do it anyway: there are few politicians in the world more skilled at manipulating Twitter than President Trump.  So over the past few months, 48-year-old Congressman Ted Lieu (D-California) has decided to try and master the platform, slowly emerging as the President's most adept social media opponent. It might seem like an embarrassing game to … [Link]

Mashable » An envelope in a Barcelona flea market held the work of an unknown master photographer

Saturday 15 April 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Image: Milagros Caturla, courtesy of Tom SponheimIn the summer of 2001, American Tom Sponheim was vacationing in Barcelona with his wife. On their way to the cathedral of Sagrada Familia, they wandered through the bustling flea market of Els Encants.Sponheim spotted a stack of photo negatives on a table, and after checking that they were decently exposed, asked the vendor how … [Link]

Mashable » This laundry ball will catch all those nasty microfibers

Saturday 15 April 14:00:00 UTC 2017

‘Cora Ball' was inspired by corals that filter ocean water. This laundry ball will help capture microfibers when you do your laundry. It can even pick up hair.  It's also easy to clean. You just pluck the lint out and dump it in the trash. Read more…More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Capture, and Capture Lint [Link]

Mashable » Director F. Gary Gray explains why 'The Fate of the Furious' had to go to New York

Saturday 15 April 14:00:00 UTC 2017

The Fate of the Furious may have been director F. Gary Gray's first Fast and Furious film, but it's the eighth installment in the series over all. And as such, Gray had a tall order to fill.  The Straight Outta Compton helmer had to figure out how to deliver on the over-the-top action and earnest sentimentality that made the earlier movies … [Link]

Mashable » The best swimwear if you want to throw gender norms in the trash

Saturday 15 April 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Going to the beach and picking out a hot swimsuit are some of the greatest pleasures summer has to offer — for approximately .00000001% of the general population. Unless you're, say, a hairless Justin Bieber, nothing is more torturous than buying a new swimsuit. You've got to find something that remains *on trend* and accentuates your butt *just right* but if … [Link]

Mashable » Microsoft: We've already patched the Shadow Brokers Windows exploits

Saturday 15 April 13:33:58 UTC 2017

Shadow Brokers' big Windows gotcha moment for millions of Windows users around the world looks more like a "not so fast." Hours after the hacking group, which apparently supports President Donald Trump and has been known to hack for money, dropped a terrifying package of NSA Windows Hacking tools that tapped into potentials vulnerabilities in most known versions of Windows (possibly … [Link]

Slashdot » Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election

Saturday 15 April 13:30:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Facebook says it has targeted 30,000 fake accounts linked to France ahead of the country's presidential election, as part of a worldwide effort against misinformation. The company said Thursday it's trying to "reduce the spread of material generated through inauthentic activity, including spam, misinformation, or other deceptive content that is often … [Link]

Mashable » April finally gave birth. For real this time.

Saturday 15 April 12:16:40 UTC 2017

Listen up, April the giraffe fans: IT'S HAPPENING.  After weeks – incredibly, yes, this live birth cam has been going on for literal weeks, since February 24th – April the giraffe is finally letting her baby out into the world. Update: April gave birth on April 15 at about 9:30 a.m. EST. Nearly 2 million people watched.  If you've been following … [Link]

Mashable » Pet portraits are the cutest when they're shot from below

Saturday 15 April 12:00:00 UTC 2017

In what's surely the cutest take on the traditional pet portrait, the photographer behind the Underlook series shoots his subjects from below.  Over the last few years, Andrius Burba and his team have photographed cats, rabbits and even horses from beneath glass platforms.  SEE ALSO: Obsess over your dog even more with this smart pet door His latest photos features dogs … [Link]

Mashable » How an 'Uber for pregnant women' is saving lives in Tanzania

Saturday 15 April 11:00:00 UTC 2017

When 28-year-old Consolata went into labor in rural Sengerema, Tanzania, it was by no means picture-perfect. She was extremely fatigued, and soon started experiencing intense pain. "I was in bad shape," she said. "I couldn't do anything because I was tired." Without knowing exactly what was wrong, she knew she needed to get to a clinic immediately — for her baby's … [Link]

Slashdot »  G.SKILL Hits 4500MHz With All-New Trident Z DDR4-4333MHz 16GB Memory Kit

Saturday 15 April 10:30:00 UTC 2017

BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: G.SKILL is a respected RAM maker, and the company is constantly pushing the envelope. Today, it announced a new DDR4-4333MHz 16GB Memory Kit (2x8GB) — the first ever. While that alone is very cool, the company is bragging about what it accomplished with it — an overclock that hit 4500MHz using an Intel Core … [Link]

Mashable » See how the store of the future will work

Saturday 15 April 8:30:00 UTC 2017

Here’s an idea: all the convenience of online shopping combined with the instant gratification of shopping in physical stores IRL.  This is the vision of shopping in the future, and it's very close to a reality. All you have to do is hand over your data. This week Mashable got a sneak peek inside a "Store of the Future" by London-based … [Link]

Slashdot » Scientists Win $2.6 Million For Star Trek Tricorder Device

Saturday 15 April 7:30:00 UTC 2017

The Qualcomm Foundation, along with the XPRIZE Foundation, "announced the winning team of its nearly four-year-long global competition to develop a functional, easily usable tricorder," reports Vocativ. The Pennsylvania-based Final Frontier Medical Devices team was the first place winner, receiving the top prize of $2.6 million, while Boston-based Dynamical Biomarkers nabbed $1 million. From the report: Led by Dr. Basil … [Link]

Slashdot » FriendELEC Releases $40 NanoPi K2 Board That Competes With ODROID-C2, Raspberry Pi 3

Saturday 15 April 6:25:29 UTC 2017

DeathByLlama writes: The single board computer market, broken wide-open just a few years ago by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, continues to flourish today as FriendELEC releases their $40 NanoPi K2 board. This SBC packs a 1.5 GHz 64-bit quad core Amlogic S905 processor, and paired with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and the Mali-450MP GPU, it is able to stream 4K … [Link]

Slashdot » Children As Young As 13 Attending 'Smartphone Rehab' As Concerns Grow Over Screen Time

Saturday 15 April 3:30:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: Children refusing to put down their phones is a common flashpoint in many homes, with a third of British children aged 12 to 15 admitting they do not have a good balance between screen time and other activities. But in the U.S., the problem has become so severe for some families … [Link]

Mashable » Family tries to let their pet bird go free and fails miserably

Saturday 15 April 1:43:09 UTC 2017

A family with only the best intentions for their pet bird ended up making a very bad decision by letting it fly free into the world. Maritza Sanchez tweeted a video on Thursday of her family releasing their pet parakeet into the wild. It's unclear why they thought this was a good idea, but hey, maybe they were just sick of … [Link]

Mashable » There's another United horror story, and it will break your heart

Saturday 15 April 1:33:54 UTC 2017

The United horror stories keep coming out of the woodwork. After the internet exploded over a viral video showing a man being forcibly dragged from his seat on a United flight last weekend, another passenger has taken to Medium to share his horrible experience with the airline. SEE ALSO: Unsettling video captures United passenger being forcibly removed from overbooked flight Trey … [Link]

Mashable » Bernie Sanders standing in a huge tub of Ben & Jerry's was just asking for memes

Saturday 15 April 1:22:21 UTC 2017

The most Vermont thing to ever happen took place on Friday. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gave a speech inside a giant tub of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.  Sanders spoke to employees at a Ben & Jerry's factory in St. Albans on Friday afternoon. He then tasted some flavors, because when you're at a Ben & Jerry's factory, you eat some … [Link]

Slashdot » US Navy Bans Vaping On Ships

Saturday 15 April 1:05:00 UTC 2017

The U.S. Navy announced today that it will no longer allow sailors to use electronic cigarettes on ships, following several reports of explosives and injuries. ABC News reports: Naval commanders said in a statement Friday that the temporary electronic cigarette policy aims to protect sailors and the fleet. It starts next month. Officials cited overheated batteries in vaping equipment as … [Link]

Mashable » Jay Pharoah opens up about his 'SNL' exit: 'You go where you're appreciated'

Saturday 15 April 1:02:17 UTC 2017

Former Saturday Night Live star Jay Pharoah hasn't said much about his unexpected exit from the show since he and Taran Killam were released from their contracts last August … until now.  The comedian opened up about being dropped from the NBC hit during an interview with Hot 97. "You go where you’re appreciated," Pharoah explained. "If you have multiple … [Link]

Slashdot » FriendlyElec Releases $40 NanoPi K2 Board That Competes With ODROID-C2, Raspberry Pi 3

Saturday 15 April 0:35:00 UTC 2017

DeathByLlama writes: The single board computer market, broken wide-open just a few years ago by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, continues to flourish today as FriendELEC releases their $40 NanoPi K2 board. This SBC packs a 1.5 GHz 64-bit quad core Amlogic S905 processor, and paired with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and the Mali-450MP GPU, it is able to stream 4K … [Link]

Slashdot » Zelda: Breath of the Wild Is Now the Fastest-Selling Nintendo Launch Title of All Time

Saturday 15 April 0:05:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: It's no surprise that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch, a console that just had its strongest U.S. opening ever for the company. But managing to sell more copies than consoles that can actually play it? That's what's happened in the … [Link]

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