The quickest and most expensive Model S is no more. …read more Source:: CNet

Today ZDNet’s “Technically Incorrect” columnist Chris Matyszczyk discussed a new pop-up message that’s now appearing in Windows 10’s notification center. It’s warning Windows users that “Microsoft recommends different browser settings. Want to change them?” The notification adds that you’ll get “Search that gives you back time and money.” And “fast and secure search results with…

Long-time Slashdot reader Dputiger writes: Go looking for the difference between x86 and ARM CPUs, and you’ll run into the idea of CISC versus RISC immediately. But 40 years after the publication of David Patterson and David Ditzel’s 1981 paper, “The Case for a Reduced Instruction Set Computer,” CISC and RISC are poor top-level categories…

LoRa is great for sending short data packets over long ranges but is not normally suitable for voice communications. [Dan Fay] is looking to change this with QMesh, a synchronized, flooded mesh network protocol for ham radio applications. In a flooded mesh network every node repeats every message it receives. This has the theoretical advantage…

An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica: The now-unemployed owner of a shuttered ROM distribution site has been ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages to Nintendo after trying and failing to defend himself in the case. In September 2019, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles resident Matthew Storman over his operation of RomUniverse.com, which…

Catch up on Love, Victor before the second season premiere. …read more Source:: CNet

A couple of Christopher Nolan Batman flicks are among the new arrivals this month. …read more Source:: CNet

Here are a bunch of options to check out tonight. …read more Source:: CNet

The latest Conjuring flick is out now. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s been argued that technology (especially automation) will continue weakening the position of workers. But today the senior economics correspondent for The New York Times argues a “profound shift” happening in America is instead something else. “For the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand…” Up and down the wage scale,…