An anonymous reader quotes CryptoCoinsNews: Over the past 24 hours, the crypto market has recorded a loss of $18 billion, as major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ether, EOS, and Bitcoin Cash dropped by 4 to 13 percent. While Bitcoin ended the day with a 4 percent decline in its value, Ether, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum,…

Along with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 comes the plethora of accessories from third parties. One of the first to announce a product was Moment with its new camera case that support all of its lenses and is currently being offered at 20 percent off. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A major virus infection forced the closure of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) factories last weekend…” writes Slashdot reader Mark Wilson, noting that it’s the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, selling chips to Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Broadcom, and “responsible for producing iPhone processors.” Now Network World reports: The infection struck on Friday,…

Small proof of concept generating just under one volt in cloudy conditions. The Seebeck effect (part of the broader thermoelectric effect) is how a difference in temperature can be directly converted into a voltage, and it is the operating principle behind things like thermocouples and Peltier junctions. Harnessing this effect in an effort to wrangle…

“Six years after decommissioning USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy is still figuring out how to safely dismantle the ship,” reports Popular Mechanics. schwit1 tipped us off to their report: The General Accounting Office estimates the cost of taking apart the vessel and sending the reactors to a nuclear waste…

Maybe don’t take acting-career tips from Luke Skywalker is what we’re saying. …read more Source:: CNet

Analytics, advertising and other web scripts can capture information housed in user confirmations for flight bookings, food delivery, medical testing and more. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader quotes the BBC: Elon Musk’s bombshell announcement that he is thinking of taking the electric car company Tesla private has landed him a lawsuit from unhappy investors…. His comments caused the share price to shoot up 11% to nearly $380, though it has since fallen back. Short-sellers, who bet on share price…

George R.R. Martin learned from J.R.R. Tolkien that the stakes are raised when no character is safe. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes the Los Angeles Times: An airline worker stole an empty Alaska Airlines plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington on Friday night, and the National Guard scrambled two fighter jets to chase the aircraft, which crashed on a sparsely populated island in Puget Sound, officials said. No passengers were aboard the…