Last week NBC News ran an opinion piece by a certified nutritionist arguing that plant-based/meat-free alternatives at major fast food chains “aren’t actually any healthier.” Bloomberg got a response from two of the major meat-substitute companies: According to Impossible, the attacks are all part of a “smear campaign to sow fear and doubt about plant-based…

We put both the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro through a series of drops to see if they would survive. Turns out, they’re a lot tougher than we thought. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes Tom’s Hardware: One Raspberry Pi can make a nice web server, but what happens if you put more than 1,000 of them together? At Oracle’s OpenWorld convention on Monday, the company showed off a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer that combines 1,060 Raspberry Pis into one powerful cluster. According to ServeTheHome, which first…

Microsoft’s goal: embed the same Fluent Design principles seen across its product lines into its internal systems. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“The biggest day of the year for civic technologists, the National Day of Civic Hacking, is Saturday, Sept. 21, and, as such, affiliated groups across the country are preparing their events,” reports Government Technology: The National Day of Civic Hacking, simply put, is a day in which civic technologists and others interested in serving their…

On the other hand, everyone was busy blasting Google for a similar plan in Chrome. …read more Source:: ZDNet

There’s an old saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, but how about doing so with an open source leg? Well, your robots might do so at least, thanks to OpenLeg, a new open source project for building robot legs. Created by [Joey Byrnes], this started out as a senior project for a course…

Nomad has become my favorite iPhone case brand with awesome leather that ages with character, solid protection from typical drops, and reasonable prices. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A software engineer pulled a personal project down after he found out that one of the companies using it had recently signed a contract with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The engineer, Seth Vargo, cited the ICE’s “inhumane treatment, denial of basic human rights, and…

VPNs are critical pieces of the security infrastructure, but they can be vulnerable, hackable, and weaponized against you. Here are seven things to be aware of before you ignore your VPN. …read more Source:: DarkReading