Wave723 shared this article from September’s issue of IEEE Spectrum about an usual project by a leading group of cognitive biologists and computer scientists: Dubbed the Interspecies Internet, the project aims to provide intelligent animals such as elephants, dolphins, magpies, and great apes with a means to communicate among each other and with people online….

Python is a versatile, powerful language but sometimes it’s not the best choice, especially if you’re doing work in embedded systems with limited memory. Sometimes you can get away with MicroPython for these cases, but the best language is likely C or assembly. If you’re really stubborn, like [amirgon], and really want C and Python…

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes Science Alert: Among the 100,000 most cited scientists between 1996 to 2017, there’s a stealthy pocket of researchers who represent “extreme self-citations and ‘citation farms’ (relatively small clusters of authors massively citing each other’s papers),” explain the authors of the new study, led by physician turned meta-researcher John Ioannidis from…

We compare Apple’s most affordable high-end iPhone with 2017’s iPhone 8 Plus. …read more Source:: CNet

Your cheat sheet for Apple’s September event with the latest rumors about the next iPhone and Apple Watch. …read more Source:: CNet

That’s a huge price drop on these popular, colorful on-ear ‘phones. And the deal might get a little sweeter still. …read more Source:: CNet

You can’t put a price on a good night’s sleep, but mattress sales are nonetheless appreciated. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes the lead consumer technology writer for the New York Times: I’m neither a Luddite nor a cheapskate. But after testing hundreds of tech products — and buying some along the way — over the last dozen years, I’ve come to a conclusion: People will almost always get more joy from technology…

Survey shows that cloud helps accelerate data modernization and transformation efforts. But it needs to be undertaken gradually, with an eye to security and performance. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes a blog post by Curtis Poe , a freelance Perl/Agile/testing consultant and the author of the Wrox book Beginning Perl: By now, many of you have seen the Perl 6 Github issue “Perl” in the name “Perl 6” is confusing and irritating. The issue suggested renaming Perl 6. While some may…