Day: June 23, 2019

AT&T 5G: Our tests yield the craziest speeds yet – CNET

At the AT&T Shape conference, we get a taste of the carrier’s blazing 5G speeds. And they sure make for smooth mole whacking. …read more Source:: CNet


Amazonians Visit High Schools To Inspect the Amazon Future Engineer Troops

theodp writes: Amazon Future Engineer students across the country are graduating from high school,” reports the Amazon Day One blog, “and to celebrate, Amazonians visited select classrooms to meet some of the students and to check out their impressive computer science progress and end of year projects [TV coverage of an ‘Amazon graduation’]. Amazon Future…


SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch ashes of an all-star, astronaut and others – CNET

The first nighttime launch of the big rocket will also be a celestial funeral of sorts. …read more Source:: CNet


The Threat Actor You Can’t Detect: Cognitive Bias

Long-time Slashdot reader chicksdaddy shares news of a recent report from cybersecurity company Forcepoint’s X-Lab, examining how cybersecurity decision-making is affected by six common biases: For instance, Forcepoint found that older generations are typically characterized by information security professionals as “riskier users based on their supposed lack of familiarity with new technologies.” However, studies have…


The Apple Watch is still on sale starting at $199 at Amazon and Walmart – CNET

These ‘Father’s Day deals’ on Apple Watch Series 3 and Series 4 are still available. …read more Source:: CNet


Split Flap Clock Keeps Time Thanks to Custom Frequency Converter

Why would anyone put as much effort into resurrecting a 1970s split-flap clock as [mitxela] did when he built this custom PLL frequency converter? We’re not sure, but we do like the results. The clock is a recreation of the prop from the classic 1993 film, Groundhog Day, rigged to play nothing but “I Got…


Remembering The ENIAC Programmers

On Princeton’s “Freedom to Tinker” site, the founder of the ENIAC Programmers Project summarizes 20 years of its research, remembering the “incredible acts of computing innovation during and just after WWII” that “established the foundation of modern computing and programming.” Commissioned in 1942, and launched in 1946, the ENIAC computer, with its 18,000 vacuum tubes,…


Are Universal Basic Income Proponents Making the Wrong Arguments?

An assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University criticizes the argument that technology “is quickly displacing a large number of workers, and the pace will only increase as automation and other forms of artificial intelligence become more advanced,” specifically calling out Universal Basic Income proponents Elon Musk, Andrew Yang, and YCombinator Chairman Sam Altman:…


Bill Gates Shares His ‘Greatest Mistake Ever’

Bill Gates “clearly hasn’t got over his biggest mistake,” writes Inc. columnist Chris Matyszczyk. Speaking at a recent VC firm event, Gates told the audience: The greatest mistake ever is… whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard phone platform — non-Apple form…


VR On The 6502

The MOS Technology 6502 was one of the more popular processors of the 1980s. It ran the Commodore 64, the NES in a modified form, and a whole bunch of other hardware, too. By modern standards, it’s barely fit to run a calculator, but no matter – [Nick Bild] built a VR game that runs…