Jalopnik reports: A new United Kingdom-based study conducted by CarGurus confirms a trend that’s been popping up lately: most drivers aren’t confident in sharing the road with fully-autonomous vehicles. The site surveyed just over 1,000 automobile owners in the UK to understand their thoughts regarding self-driving cars, making sure to balance respondents by race, income,…

The New York Times reports: When Yahoo banned working from home in 2013, the reason was one often cited in corporate America: Being in the office is essential for spontaneous collaboration and innovation. “It is critical that we are all present in our offices,” wrote Jacqueline Reses, then a Yahoo executive, in a staff memo….

It wasn’t that long ago that if you had an optical microscope in your electronics shop, you had a very well-supplied shop indeed. Today, though, a microscope is almost a necessity since parts have shrunk to flyspeck-size. [Maker Mashup] recently picked up an AD409 and posted a video review of the device that you can…

The Houston Chronicle reports: The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday in a Houston case that Facebook is not a “lawless no-man’s-land” and can be held liable for the conduct of pimps who use its technology to recruit and prey on children. The ruling came in a trio of Houston civil actions involving teenage trafficking victims…

The Wall Street Journal reports: Authorities in the U.K. and Japan took aim at affiliates of Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange network, in the latest regulatory crackdown on the wildly popular trade in bitcoin and other digital assets. The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, the country’s lead financial regulator, told consumers Saturday that…

Some users who bought an external hard drive that’s delightfully shaped like a book ended up with “terabytes’ worth of data, years of memories and months of hard work vanished in an instant,” reports Engadget. (Though according to a new statement from Western Digital, “Some customers have reported that data recovery tools may be able…

Fans can watch the game live on Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV and more, no cable subscription required. …read more Source:: CNet

These days, we are spoiled for choice with regard to SDRs for RF analysis, but sometimes we’re more interested in the source of RF than the contents of the transmission. For this role, [Maker_Wolf] created the RFListener, a wideband directional RF receiver that converts electromagnetic signal to audio. The RF Listener is built around a…

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an interesting report from Science Alert: Thunderstorms that roil across the Southern Great Plains of the US are amongst the strongest of such storms on Earth… Their intensity and frequency have been increasing, yet our best climate models still struggle to predict just how and when they’ll arise. To help…

I sometimes talk about “the family of geeks” — how our shared experiences can bring us together. But if that’s true, there’s been a death in the family…. Manatee County Administrator Scott Hopes, who is also an epidemiologist, said six unvaccinated employees, including five in the IT department, tested positive for the virus within a…