The social media giants are reportedly going to help get the word out about eligibility. …read more Source:: CNet

“A true-crime podcast has been credited with providing valuable information in a missing person case from the 1990s after two men were arrested,” reports Newsweek: Kristin Smart, 19, of Stockton, California, went missing in May 1996 after returning to her dorm at California Polytechnic State University campus in San Luis Obispo. The case received widespread…

Finding a PS5 is tricky business, as new consoles are immediately snapped up by keen customers. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger brings the news that Charles ‘Chuck’ Geschke, the co-founder of Adobe, had died at the age of 81. The company started in co-founder John Warnock’s garage in 1982, and was named after the Adobe Creek which ran behind Warnock’s home, offering pioneering capabilities in “What you see is what you get”…

The Sony PS5 is still the hottest ticket in gaming. These vendors are your best bets for finding one in stock. …read more Source:: CNet

Regular streetlights are all well and good, bathing us in the glow of their sodium, or more increasingly LED, lamps. They’re mostly rigid metal contraptions installed primarily for public safety purposes. They could be so much more, however, as the Bloomlight demonstrates. The light consists of a flexible main stem, which can be pulled in…

Texas TV station KPRC 2 reports that two men are dead after a Tesla “crashed into a tree and no one was driving the vehicle, officials say.” Long-time Slashdot readers AmiMoJo and McGruber both submitted the story: There was a person in the passenger seat of the front of the car and in the rear…

Looking for AirPods alternatives that cost a lot less? Here are some truly wireless budget models worth considering. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader writes: Debian Project Secretary Kurt Roeckx has announced the results of a closely-watched vote on what statement would be made about Richard Stallman’s readmission to the Free Software Foundation’s board. Seven options were considered, with the Debian project’s 420 voting developers also asked to rank their preferred outcomes: Option 1: “Call for…

Now why didn’t we think of this? While building a dactyl manuform — a semi-ergonomic split keyboard — [dapperrogue] had the life-changing epiphany that keyboards can be any shape or size, as long as there is room for wiring and a microcontroller inside. [dapperrogue]’s first foray into the world of fictional ordnance came in the…