Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: After seeing to it that UK Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau all received (widely-publicized) coding lessons, Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi noted in late 2016 that he was “still working on Pope Francis.” GeekWire reports that Partovi was able to cross that…

Zorro (Slashdot reader #15,797) quotes Live Science: Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is. Researchers recently conducted experiments to answer a decades-old theoretical physics question about dueling realities. This tricky thought experiment proposed that two individuals observing the same photon could…

Long-time Slashdot reader beckman101 writes: This week Electric Dollar Store opened its doors, selling interchangeable postage-stamp sized I2C-based modules for prices between $1.00 and $1.80. The modules include lights, buzzers, counters and sensors — the range is aimed at electronic makers. These aren’t manufacturing rejects shipping from Asia — they’re assembled, tested and shipped from…

Get 4K for less. …read more Source:: CNet

Every workshop generates waste, whether it be wood shavings, scrap metal, or fabric scraps, and sometimes that waste seems too good to throw away. [Igor Nikolic]’s hackerspace had a ruined circular saw blade in the trash, and rather than let it go to waste he took it to the forge and fashioned a bowl from…

An airline passenger “passed a security checkpoint with a loaded gun magazine,” reports the Associated Press, citing information from an airport duty manager: Bob Rotiski said the passenger who apparently had visited a shooting range packed a loaded magazine in his carry-on bag. He said an officer identified the magazine during security screening, but the…

Apple’s Monday event is expected to be an extravaganza of subscription services: TV! Movies! News! Bundles! But competitors say the company is already out of control. …read more Source:: CNet

As Apple releases its latest variations on the iPad theme, where’s the competition? Nowhere, according to this Best Buy salesman. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Meet Anil, who lives in central New Jersey. His basement home theater seeks out new life and new levels of Trekkie fandom that has to be seen to believed. …read more Source:: CNet

It’ll go on sale, in Europe at least, in the second half of 2019. …read more Source:: CNet