Save $22 on a 1080p display that can handle gaming and entertainment (like this year’s hottest football commercials) along with routine spreadsheets. …read more Source:: CNet

Also, the most detailed brain map yet took 12 years, $40m to build Roundup Hello, welcome to this week’s AI roundup of news that’s beyond what we’ve already covered, and it’s mostly all about facial recognition.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

It happens to everyone. You get your hands on an Etch-A-Sketch for the first time, and armed with the knowledge of how it works, you’re sure you can draw things other than rectangles and staircases. And then you find out the awful truth: you are not as precise as you think you are, and if…

Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: NASA will launch a new rover to Mars this July — and 28,000 American schoolchildren wrote essays with suggestions for what NASA should name it. NASA has now selected the top nine finalists, which they’ll let the public vote on through Monday on a special web page where they’re also displaying…

Commentary: A brand-new design, foldable phones might not make it to the next generation unless they can continue to evolve. …read more Source:: CNet

A former chair of America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission is working with Accenture to explore what Computerworld calls “a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency” — a cash-backed stablecoin, issued and controlled by America’s central bank, where one token represents one dollar. Long-time Slashdot reader Lucas123 writes: A cryptocurrency based on a blockchain ledger would be…

Long-time Slashdot reader gabebear writes: The FCC hasn’t officially cleared 6 GHz for WiFi, but chipsets that support 6 GHz are starting to be released. 6 GHz opens up a several times more bandwidth than what is currently available with WiFi, although it doesn’t penetrate walls as well as 2.4 GHz. Celeno has their press…

Got $75K spare? Then this is the eBay deal for you! [jvanorsdal] pointed us to this eBay bargain: the VPI Vehicle Power Interface Rack & Console Hubble Space Telescope. This was the actual system used to test the power systems of the Hubble Space Telescope before it was launched, so it’s a genuine piece of…

From a report: JetBrains has added further destinations to the IntelliJ-based roadmap it sketched out last year, promising more localization, machine learning and Git integration amongst a range of other goodies for the Java IDE… The Prague-based firm’s CTO Dimitry Jemerov said users had long asked to be able to use its IDEs for “general…

Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop team sit down with a sexual education expert to talk about vulvas, taboos and female pleasure. …read more Source:: CNet