Day: October 18, 2020

Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix: Where are the real-life players now? – CNET

Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and the rest. The Chicago Seven came together to protest the war in the 1960s. Here’s what happened to the characters in Aaron Sorkin’s film. …read more Source:: CNet


Precision Metal Detector Finds Needles in Haystacks

Full-size metal detectors are great for narrowing down a region to start digging through. But what if you had a smaller metal detector that could pinpoint the location? Then you could spend far less time digging and way more time sweeping for metal. Metal detectors work because of the way metal behaves around electromagnetic fields….


Get a 5-pack of outlet covers with nighttime safety lights for $15 – CNET

This clever design offers a gentle night light for pennies a year and you never have to replace batteries. …read more Source:: CNet


Elon Musk ‘guesses’ SpaceX could send a ship to Mars as soon as 2024 – CNET

The rocket man wants to see development of his next-generation Starship move faster. …read more Source:: CNet


NFL streaming: Best ways to watch 2020 football live today without cable – CNET

Cord-cutters can stream games live from CBS, Fox, NBC and NFL RedZone. Here’s how. …read more Source:: CNet


Get two free games worth $35 from Epic this week – CNET

You’ll remember playing Amnesia for a long time. And not just because you got it for free. …read more Source:: CNet


Cloudflare Offers ‘Isolated’ Cloud-Based Browser, Plus a Network-as-a-Service Solution

Cloudflare has released the beta of its new “browser isolation” service, which runs a web browser in the cloud, reports TechRadar. As more and more computing is done inside a browser as opposed to on a system itself, many enterprise organizations have begun to deploy browser isolation services where the browser doesn’t actually run on…


Tesla Drops Its 7-Day Return Policy

“Tesla has removed its ballsy ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy that Elon Musk has been pushing as a show of confidence for the automaker,” reports Electrek: CEO Elon Musk often used the policy in marketing Tesla vehicles to potential buyers… Tesla literally wrote in its support page for the policy, “This return policy is…


Linux 5.10 Solves the Year 2038 Problem Until 2486

The Linux 5.10 kernel’s XFS file-system will have two new on-disk meta-data capabilities, reports Phoronix: 1. The size of inode btrees in the allocation group is now recorded. This is for increasing redundancy checks and also allowing faster mount times. 2. Support for timestamps now until the year 2486. This “big timestamps” feature is the…


Worm Bot Inches Along As You’d Expect

Robot locomotion is a broad topic, and there are a multitude of choices for the budding designer. Often, nature is an inspiration, and many ‘bots have been built to explore the motion regimes of various insects and animals. Inspired himself by the common inch worm, [jegatheesan.soundarapandian] decided to build a robot that moved in a…