An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider: Southwest Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials who monitor the carrier were unaware that a standard safety feature, designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors, on Boeing 737 Max jets was turned off when Southwest began flying the model in 2017, reported Andy Pastzor of the Wall…

Wrestling decor, headphones — even streaming shows: Yup, we found some pretty random — and cool — stuff …read more Source:: CNet

It’s basically a lightsaber. Except smaller. And with an invisible blade. And cold to the touch. But other than that, this homebrew cold plasma torch (YouTube, embedded below) is just like the Jedi’s choice in elegant weaponry. Perhaps we shouldn’t kid [Justin] given how hard he worked on this project – seventeen prototypes before hitting…

We know about Samsung’s foldable screen problems. It’s time to talk about the screen itself. …read more Source:: CNet

Slack said it faces threats from “sophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors” in an S-1 securities registration form published online Friday. An anonymous reader shares this report from Motherboard: The document says that these threats from organized crime and nation-states actors and affiliates are alongside “threats from traditional computer ‘hackers’, malicious code (such…

The several expeditions the Avengers have to take to reverse Thanos’ extreme tidiness. …read more Source:: CNet

Driving an electric vehicle in Germany produces more CO2 emissions than driving a diesel vehicle, a new study claims. schwit1 quotes the Brussels Times: When CO2 emissions linked to the production of batteries and the German energy mix — in which coal still plays an important role — are taken into consideration, electric vehicles emit…

“Alexa, play the new Taylor Swift!” …read more Source:: CNet

United Airlines “has covered all the cameras in entertainment systems embedded in the backs of the airline’s premium seats,” reports BuzzFeed News. In a statement, a United Airlines spokesperson said: “As with many other airlines, some of our premium seats have in-flight entertainment systems that came with cameras installed by the manufacturer. None of these…

Like pretty much all of us, [Andy Schwarz] loves RGB LEDs. Specifically he likes to put them on RC vehicles, such as navigation lights on airplanes or flashers and headlights on cars. He found himself often rewriting very similar Arduino code for each one of these installations, and eventually decided he could save himself (and…