Spoilers: Wait, isn’t he dead?! …read more Source:: CNet

That’s a lot, but not as much as Star Wars films usually earn. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader shares a report: Public hearings for rural electric utilities are rarely sellout events. But the crowd that showed up in Wenatchee two weeks ago for a hearing about Bitcoin mining in Chelan County was so large that utility staff had to open a second room with a video feed for the overflow….

TVs are usually something you sit and passively watch. Not so for [Nate Damen’s] interactive, wearable TV head project, aka Atltvhead. If you’re walking around Atlanta, Georgia and you see him walking around with a TV where his head should be, introduce yourself! Or sign into Twitch chat and take control of what’s being displayed…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Oracle’s aggressive sales tactics are turning off customers, setting a roadblock in the company’s race to catch up with Amazon Web Services in the cloud, according to a report on The Information. [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source]. Oracle is threatening customers of its on-premises software…

It’s been a while since movie audiences have seen this Star Wars character. …read more Source:: CNet

Zoe Schlanger, writing for Quartz: In 2016, roughly 10% of the planet’s energy use went towards air conditioning. Figures vary wildly from country to country, though, and some of the hottest regions on Earth use the least A/C — for now. A new report from the International Energy Agency says that’s about to change. By…

On Toronto’s Eastern waterfront, a new digital city is being built by Sidewalk Labs — a firm owned by Google’s parent Alphabet. It hopes the project will become a model for 21st-Century urbanism. From a report: But the deal has been controversial, representing one of biggest ever tie-ups between a city and a large corporation….

We need to have a talk. As tough a pill as it is to swallow, we have to face that fact that some of the technology promised to us by Hollywood writers and prop makers just isn’t going to come true. We’re never going to have a flux capacitor, actual hoverboards aren’t a real thing,…

Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews: This week, The GNOME Foundation made a shocking revelation: a mystery donor has pledged $1 million dollars. We don’t know who is promising the money — it could be a rich man or woman, but more likely — and this is pure speculation — it is probably a company that…