Intel’s director of its neuromorphic computing initiative, Mike Davies, chided Facebook’s Yann LeCun at an industry conference for failing to appreciate the virtues of the Intel technology. He derided the deep learning approach of LeCun and others as failing to truly add up to “learning.” …read more Source:: ZDNet

[Steve Martin] used to do a comedy act about “Let’s get small!” You have to wonder if [Paul Klinger] is a fan of that routine, as he recently completed a very small 3D printed PC that plays snake. Ok, it isn’t really a PC and it isn’t terribly practical, but it is really well executed…

Avengers’ Anthony Mackie, Luke Cage’s Simone Missick, and Daredevil’s Dina Shihabi join the sci-fi series. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider’s update on Microsoft Clippy, the animated cartoon paperclip that was Office’s virtual assistant until the early 2000s, that “everyone loved to hate.” After 18 years, has it become retro chic? When Chloe Condon, a newly hired Microsoft cloud evangelist, ordered new business cards, she avoided the standard corporate look…

Recent rash of DNS hijacking attacks has spurred ICANN to urge the industry for a more rapid DNSSEC adoption. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian: An American 14-year-old has reportedly become the youngest known person in the world to create a successful nuclear reaction. The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium, a hobbyist group, has recognised the achievement by Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, when he was aged 12 in January 2018…. The enterprising teenager…

Code moving from frontal-lobe-to-front-office in a snap? Let’s consider the case for the complete automation of software delivery and operations. …read more Source:: ZDNet

If you run Adobe Premiere Pro on a MacBook Pro then it pays to go find the latest update, because it patches a bug that has permanently damaged MacBook Pro speakers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“Redis Labs is dropping its Commons Clause license in favor of its new ‘available-source’ license: Redis Source Available License (RSAL),” reports ZDNet — adding “This is not an open-source license.” Redis Labs had used Commons Clause on top of the open-source Apache License to protect its rights to modules added to its 3-Clause-BSD-licensed Redis, the…

The speaker in the original IBM PC is nearly the worst electronic musical instrument ever created. This isn’t because amazing works of art were never created for the PC speaker; no, that’s been done, and it’s amazing. The PC speaker is terrible because of how limited it is. It does one note at a time,…