Gardeners won’t need to adjust the Elowan cyborg plant on the windowsill. …read more Source:: CNet

Cryptocurrency prices “fell sharply on Friday, as another bout of selling took digital currencies to fresh lows,” reports MarketWatch, adding that Friday the price of Bitcoin “crashed through support at $3,500, falling more than 10% to a 15-month low at $3,230 on the Kraken exchange.” “What a difference a year makes,” CNN Business quipped Friday,…

An anonymous reader quotes TechRepublic: PHP 7.3, the newest update to the widespread server-side web development language, was released on Thursday, bringing with it a handful of new features, modernizations, and modest speed improvements…. The largest improvements in 7.3 include support for Foreign Function Interface (FFI), allowing programmers to write inline C code inside PHP…

The Tektronix 2000 series of oscilloscopes are a mainstay for any electronics lab. They work, they’re relatively cheap, they’re good, and they’re available in just about any surplus electronics store. [Mr.RC-Cam] has been hoarding one of these for twenty years, and like any classic piece of equipment, it needs a little refurbishment every now and…

Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET now ranks above JavaScript, PHP, SQL on TIOBE’s index of programming language popularity, which ZDNet notes is “the highest it’s ever been since [TIIOBE] started tracking the Microsoft language in 2001.” Tiobe analysts said it was “very surprising” that Visual Basic .Net is now the fifth most popular language, only behind…

There’s still a wide gap between talking about change and making it happen. …read more Source:: CNet

The new battery chemistry is based on fluoride and would have greater energy density while being less environmentally damaging than current lithium-ion technology. …read more Source:: CNet

The 5G revolution is nearly upon us. Here’s when to expect super-fast 5G phones from top phone makers. …read more Source:: CNet

We worry about technology’s invasion-of-privacy problem, chat with a bearded Australian astronaut and consider the hype over the Avengers trailer. …read more Source:: CNet

We slept on a bunch of smart beds to see which one serves up the best shut-eye. …read more Source:: CNet