Day: January 5, 2019

Even More Americans Have Stopped Biking To Work

The percentage of Americans biking to work has dropped for the third year straight, reports the U.S. Census Bureau. An anonymous reader quotes USA Today: Nationally, the percentage of people who say they use a bike to get to work fell by 3.2 percent from 2016 to 2017, to an average of 836,569 commuters, according…


Tech Tattoos Trace Two Dimensions

Flexible circuit boards bend as you might expect from a playing card, while skin stretches more like knit fabric. The rules for making circuit boards and temporary tattoos therefore need to be different. Not just temporary tattoos, there are also circuits that reside on the skin so no unregulated heat traces, please. In addition to…


CES becomes latest victim of US government shutdown – CNET

Following the FCC chairman’s cancellation, CES organizers warn of more speakers bowing out. …read more Source:: CNet


Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi

Tech Republic re-visits the story of the earliest attempts to build the Raspberry Pi, and the dramatic launch of a quest “to rekindle the curiosity about computing in a generation immersed in technology but indifferent to how it worked.” [T]he dominant computers — games consoles and later tablets and smartphones — no longer offered an…


9 ways Bird Box is like A Quiet Place – CNET

You might feel you saw Sandra Bullock’s Netflix hit before. When it was called A Quiet Place and Emily Blunt was in it. …read more Source:: CNet


Linux For Cars: Tesla Isn’t The Only Automaker Running Linux Under the Hood

ZDNet reports that by 2020, “many, if not most, new cars will be running with Linux.” While some companies, like Tesla, run their own homebrew Linux distros, most rely on Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). AGL is a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open platform for connected cars with over 140 members… Its membership includes Audi,…


Ask Slashdot: Is LinkedIn Still Relevant?

LinkedIn had 590 million members — though back in 2016 Microsoft conceded that less than 25% of the service’s members were active. Yet CNBC recently shared estimates that 95% of recruiters are using LinkedIn to find candidates, and touted a new tool called “LinkedIn Hashtags” which lets companies highlight policies like “#dogfriendly” or “#freelunch”. But…


Build A Home Automation Hub For $20

With so many WiFi home automation devices on the market, you might want to take advantage of these low cost products without having to send your data to third-party servers. This can be accomplished by running your own home automation hub on your home network. If you don’t want to use a full computer for…


NASA’s Photos of Ultima Thule Suggest Long-Ago Moons

“Scientists from NASA’s New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored,” reports the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (which is operating the spacecraft). “Its remarkable appearance, unlike anything we’ve seen before, illuminates the processes that built the planets four and a half billion years ago.” Tablizer (Slashdot reader…


Listening test: NAD’s feature-packed D 3045 amplifier – CNET

The Audiophiliac checks out NAD’s latest integrated amp. …read more Source:: CNet