Electrek reports: A Tesla Model S driver in Southern California was caught on camera seemingly asleep at the wheel while driving on Autopilot… Kevin Paschal from Southern California shared the video on Facebook and said about the incident: “Highlight of my day. Dude is passed out on the freeway in his Tesla and still driving…

If IKEA made ball-balancing PID robots, they’d probably look like this one. This [Johan Link] build isn’t just about style. A look under the hood reveals not the standard, off-the-shelf microcontroller development board you might expect. Instead, [Johan] designed and built his own board with an ATmega32 to run the three servos that control the…

Google acquired DeepMind for $500 million in 2014, and its AI programs later beat the world’s best player in Go, as well as the top AI chess programs. But when its AlphaStar system beat two top Starcraft II players — was it cheating? Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes BoingBoing: It claimed the AI was limited…

The Jacob’s Ladder is an electrical device named after a biblical “ladder to Heaven”, consisting of a pair of vertically oriented conductors that spread apart vertically. These conductors are charged with high voltage, which creates the repeatedly climbing arc we’ve all come to know and love from science fiction movies of yesteryear. [LOOK MUM NO…

The FBI confiscated six drones in Atlanta for flying too close to the football stadium where the Super Bowl will be played Sunday, Reuters reports: Drone flight was prohibited on Saturday and from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. EST on Sunday for one nautical mile (2 km) around the Mercedes-Benz Stadium and up to an…

This year’s production will feature some groundbreaking 8K and augmented-reality tech. …read more Source:: CNet

Harrison Ford goes to the dogs for Amazon, Zoe Kravitz gets all ASMR, Steve Carell defends Pepsi, and the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 runs errands. …read more Source:: CNet

This week HackerRank reported Java is now only the second most popular programming language, finally dropping behind JavaScript in the year 2018. Now long-time Slashdot reader shanen asks about the rumors that Java is dead — or is it? Can you convince me that Java isn’t as dead as it seems? It’s just playing dead…

[Federico Tobon] from [Wolfcat Workshop] spent Makevember in 2017 building a series of fascinating automata using the most basic of craft supplies and simple tools in his workshop. Using a combination of rigid materials such as wooden cubes, popsicle sticks, and paper clips and pliable ones like paper and rubber bands, his creations are way…

A 13-year-old boy visiting family in Indiana has been charged with “intimidation”, according to the Northwest Indiana Times: The boy allegedly said to Siri, iPhone’s voice assistant, “I am going to shoot up a school,” according to a news release from the Valparaiso Police Department. Siri then replied with a list of multiple Valparaiso schools…