“Waymo said that its autonomous vehicles will be used to help shuttle car parts between several AutoNation locations and other repair shops in the Phoenix, Arizona area,” reports the International Business Times: While the expanded partnership may not seem like a big deal at first blush, it’s important for investors to know that the move…

SmallKat is a cute little robot with a lot of capability designed around teaching and experimenting with dynamic robot control. It’s a shame we haven’t covered SmallKat yet, as it’s both a finalist in the 2019 Hackaday Prize and was one of the Bootstrap Winners this year. Many hobby robots move by repeating a pre-programmed…

On Hackaday’s hosting site Hackaday.io, an electrical engineer with a background in semiconductor physics argues that Linux’s small market share is due to a lack of marketing: Not only does [Linux] have dominance when raw computing ability is needed, either in a supercomputer or a webserver, but it must have some ability to effectively work…

Give (or get) the gift of better computing performance. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: In a move to fight spam and improve the health of the web, Firefox will hide those annoying notification popups by default starting next year, with the release of Firefox 72, in January 2020, ZDNet has learned from a Mozilla engineer. The move comes after Mozilla ran an experiment back…

And one you should definitely skip. …read more Source:: CNet

We’ll get to see one of the spacecraft NASA hopes to use to send astronauts to orbit fly on Monday. …read more Source:: CNet

“Terminator: Dark Fate once again failed to avoid Judgment Day because audiences just don’t care about the Terminator as a brand, an IP or a franchise,” writes a box office pundit at Forbes. He points out the newly-released film earned just $10.6 million on its opening day: The sci-fi sequel, directed by Tim Miller, produced…

Digital delay pedals are pretty good nowadays and even the cheaper ones do a pretty good job at emulating the sound of old analog delay effects. And that’s good, because the original delay effects can run you a pretty penny. If you’re in to DIY electronics, though, analog delay effects can still be built without…

“Lots of hay has been made over self-driving, self-parking, and summon features of new cars,” writes Shotgun (Slashdot reader #30,919). “Now Garmin has a system that will land your plane for you.” He shares this new report from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association: During this first-ever autoland for me, nothing felt terribly out of…