We’ve reviewed every smart display since Amazon launched the Echo Show back in 2017. Here’s a quick rundown of the category. …read more Source:: CNet

Uber’s terms of service prohibit its drivers from joining class action lawsuits, Gizmodo writes, adding that over 12,000 drivers have now “found a way to weaponize the ridesharing platform’s restrictive contract in what’s possibly the funniest labor strategy of the year.” An anonymous reader summarizes their report: Uber’s contract requires that all driver lawsuits be…

“The Rust programming language team has announced the first major edition of Rust since 1.0 was released in 2015,” reports SD Times — specifically, Rust 1.31, the first edition of “Rust 2018,” described by Rust’s developers as “the culmination of feature stabilization.” An anonymous reader writes: The Rust team is working hard to maintain backwards…

If we say that a hacker is somebody who looks at a “solved” problem and can still come up with multiple alternative solutions, then [Charles Ouweland] absolutely meets the grade. Not that we needed more evidence of his hacker cred given what we’ve seen from him before, but he recently wrote in to tell us…

Qualcomm was all 5G all the time this week. …read more Source:: CNet

Researcher demonstrates how attackers could steal data from smartphones while they charge up. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Plus: European AI researchers to create a new lab Hello, welcome to this week’s AI roundup.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Rapid global warming caused the largest extinction event in the Earth’s history, which wiped out the vast majority of marine and terrestrial animals on the planet, scientists have found. The mass extinction, known as the “great dying,” occurred around 252m years ago and marked the end…

We’ve featured a great many unique clocks here on Hackaday, which have utilized nearly every imaginable way of conveying the current time. But of all these marvelous timepieces, the Morse code clock has the distinct honor of simultaneously being the easiest to construct and (arguably) the most difficult to read. As such, it’s little surprise…

AmiMoJo shares a report from Boing Boing: Researchers at Flinders University knocked out a gene known as RCAN1 in mice, hypothesizing that this would increase “non-shivering thermogenesis,” which “expends calories as heat rather than storing them as fat” — the mice were fed a high-calorie diet and did not gain weight. In particular, the modified…