Look out, $1 billion mark — this is only the film’s third weekend. …read more Source:: CNet

Do you have a need to photographically document the doings of warm-blooded animals? If so, a game camera from the nearest hunting supplier is probably your best bet. But if you don’t need the value-added features such as a weather-resistant housing that can be chained to a tree, this DIY motion trigger for a DSLR…

The editors of Ars Technica have announced their annual “Deathwatch” list, identifying “companies, tech, and trends least likely to succeed in 2019.” An anonymous reader quotes their report: The past year has been an absolute freefall for Essential…. The market was ultimately not impressed with the Essential phone, and the fire sales started almost immediately….

The brand’s Simon control panel is designed to work with Alarm.com home security systems. …read more Source:: CNet

Look for gaming and auto news from the chipmaker. …read more Source:: CNet

We think of hacking as bending technology to our will. But some systems are biological, and we’re also starting to see more hacking in that area. This should excite science fiction fans used to with reading about cultures that work with biological tech, so maybe we’ll get there in the real world too. Hacking farm…

An anonymous reader quotes Electrek: In what is quickly becoming a problem for some Tesla drivers, pickup truck drivers have again taken over a Supercharger station and yelled profanities in what appears to be an act of protest against Tesla. Earlier this month, we reported on a strange situation at Tesla’s Hickory Supercharger in North…

johnnyb (Slashdot reader #4,816) writes: Kurzweil’s conception of “The Singularity” has been at the forefront of the media conception of artificial intelligence for many years now. But how close is that to reality? Will AI’s be able to design ever-more-powerful AIs? Eric Holloway suggests that the power of AI has been fueled by Moore’s law…

johnnyb (Slashdot reader #4,816) writes: Kurzweil’s conception of “The Singularity” has been at the forefront of the media conception of artificial intelligence for many years now. But how close is that to reality? Will AI’s be able to design ever-more-powerful AIs? Eric Holloway suggests that the power of AI has been fueled by Moore’s law…

“The unprecedented power of the brain suggests that it may process information quantum-mechanically,” according to a new research paper. Long-time Slashdot reader time961 writes: Pavlo Mikheenko, a superconductivity researcher at the University of Oslo, has published a paper in the Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (abstract only; arxiv pre-print here) suggesting that microtubule structures…