Why would someone build their own Beowulf cluster — a high-performance parallel computing prototype — using 12 Raspberry Pi boards? It’s using the standard Beowulf cluster architecture found in about 88% of the world’s largest parallel computing systems, with an MPI (Message Passing Interface) system that distributes the load over all the nodes. Matt Trask,…

Make Earth Day an everyday event with reusable sandwich bags, solar-powered gadgets and shoes made from water bottles. …read more Source:: CNet

Solar garden lights are just another part of the great trash pile of our age, electronics so cheap as to be disposable. Most of you probably have a set lurking somewhere at home, their batteries maybe exhausted. Internally though they are surprisingly interesting devices. A solar cell, a little boost converter chip, and a little…

We found a Galaxy S8, LG V35 and V30 that each cost under $400. …read more Source:: CNet

The Switch perfectly captures the fun and essence of the original Game Boy and NES. …read more Source:: CNet

Update: 17 MCU movies down, four to go. It’s been a wild ride, and I’ve managed to stay spoiler-free… so far. …read more Source:: CNet

Slashdot reader omfglearntoplay shared this article from IEEE’s Spectrum. In “How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer,” pilot (and software executive) Gregory Travis argues Boeing tried to avoid costly hardware changes to their 737s with a flawed software fix — specifically, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (or MCAS): It is astounding…

Orange smoke was seen billowing from Landing Zone 1 during testing of the Crew Dragon capsule. …read more Source:: CNet

The Verge explains what all the commotion is about: AMP stands for “Accelerated Mobile Pages,” and you’ve probably noticed that those pages load super quickly and usually look much simpler than regular webpages. You may have also noticed that the URL at the top of your browser started with “www.google.com/somethingorother” instead of with the webpage…

Your name, your favorite football team and your favourite band: The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has released a list of the 100,000 most common passwords to appear in data breaches in an effort to encourage users to select strong passwords. …read more Source:: ZDNet