An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: Nvidia has a lot riding on the success of its GeForce RTX cards. The Santa Clara, California company is beating the real-time ray tracing drum loudly, adamant on being known as a champion of the technology before AMD steals some of its thunder next year with the PlayStation 5 and…

“Fortnite just blew up its entire map and all that’s left is a black hole,” reports TechCrunch. Some are speculating that this is simply a teaser for a new Fortnite map, but it’s unclear when that new map will arrive… Fortnite’s website is currently just a Twitch stream featuring a black hole. The Washington Post…

With microcontrollers growing ever more powerful each new generation, things that were mere pipedreams before are now readily possible. The Shapeshifter drum machine is a perfect example. Shapeshifter’s design is open-source, with everything available on Github for the curious musical tinkerers out there. The device is built around a PCB with only through-hole components, making…

dryriver writes: A study in the British Medical Journal that looked at 24 of the 100s of Medical apps available on Google Play found that 79% pass all sorts of user info — including sensitive medical info like what your reported symptoms are and what medications you are taking in some cases — on to…

Their ties come up again in a detailed New York Times story published Saturday that says the two met many times. Gates says Epstein misrepresented the nature of those meetings. …read more Source:: CNet

After 2 weeks, Matt is loving the Galaxy Fold, but we’re gearing up for the Google hardware event this week. Thoughts on the Pixelbook Go, new Microsoft Surface products, and more. …read more Source:: ZDNet

What just happened? …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: The final chapter of the epic nine-movie saga is coming soon, but I may be too old and cynical to enjoy it. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov quotes Wired: More than a year has passed since Bloomberg Businessweek grabbed the lapels of the cybersecurity world with a bombshell claim: that Supermicro motherboards in servers used by major tech firms, including Apple and Amazon, had been stealthily implanted with a chip the size of a rice grain…

Plus, showrunner Kevin Smith adds friend Jason Mewes to the cast. …read more Source:: CNet