Rudy Van Gelder built his recording studio in 1959, where he went on to record nearly every great jazz artist there. …read more Source:: CNet

Heritype quotes the Guardian’s science correspondent: The idea of killer robots rising up and destroying humans is a Hollywood fantasy and a distraction from the more pressing dilemmas that intelligent machines present to society, according to one of Britain’s most influential computer scientists. Sir Nigel Shadbolt, professor of computer science at the University of Oxford,…

[Peter] is at it again. Not content with being one of the best RC confabulators on YouTube, and certainly not content with the first airplane he built in his basement, [Peter Sripol] is building another airplane in his basement. The first airplane he built was documented on YouTube over a month and a half. It…

If you care about the sound of your music or movies, the Kanto YU6 is a good reason not to buy a sound bar or smart speaker. …read more Source:: CNet

Two more men entered pleas in federal court for their roles in a SWAT call that led to a fatal police shooting in Kansas: not guilty. An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: Shane Gaskill, 19, of Wichita, Kansas, and Casey Viner, 18, from a suburb of Cincinnati, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and remained free on…

Technology is key in the production of processors for mobile phones. …read more Source:: CNet

“A Microsoft employee claimed publicly that ‘all of Office 365’ was being ‘completely rewritten’ in JavaScript,” writes Paul Thurrott, adding “And then all hell broke loose.” First things first. It’s not true. So if you were freaking out that Microsoft was somehow abandoning C# and C++ for its most mission-critical offerings, freak out no more….

An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica: Pocket, which lets you save articles and videos you find around the web to consume later, now has a home inside Firefox as the engine powering recommendations to 50 million people a month. By analyzing the articles and videos people save into Pocket, [Pocket founder and CEO Nate] Weiner…

Morningstar will solve murders with his friends again thanks to Netflix picking up the series after Fox canceled it last month. …read more Source:: CNet

Anyone who has ever wound a coil by hand has probably idly wondered “How do they do this with a machine?” at some point in the tedious process. That’s about when your attention wanders and the wire does what physics wants it to do, with the rat’s nest and cursing as a predictable result. There’s…