“Allowing cash to die would be a grave mistake. A cashless society is a surveillance society,” writes Reason, adding that “The recent round of protests in Hong Kong highlights exactly what we have to lose…” schwit1 shared their report: [T]ens of thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets to protest what they saw as creeping…

“Life’s information-storage system is being adapted to handle massive amounts of information,” reports Scientific American, reports Scientific American, calling it “an alternative to hard drives” and noting that DNA “is already routinely sequenced (read), synthesized (written to) and accurately copied with ease. “DNA is also incredibly stable, as has been demonstrated by the complete genome…

The sort of pumps used in the filtration systems of fountains and swimming pools don’t take kindly to running dry. So putting such a pump on a simple timer to run while you’re away comes with a certain level of risk: if the pump runs out of water while you’re gone, you might come home…

On Monday, 7-Eleven launched a smartphone payment service for its 20,000 stores in Japan. By Thursday $510,000 had been stolen from the people using it — as many as 900 customers. Long-time Slashdot reader shanen shared this follow-up article, which points out that it’s also possible that email addresses and birth dates have been accessed…

On Monday, 7-Eleven launched a smartphone payment service for its 20,000 stores in Japan. By Thursday $510,000 had been stolen from the people using it — as many as 900 customers — according to Japan Today. Long-time Slashdot reader shanen shared the article, which points out that it’s also possible that email addresses and birth…

A step by step guide to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support in the Firefox browser. …read more Source:: ZDNet

It’s been five decades since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Here’s a look at that achievement — and what lies ahead. …read more Source:: CNet

“Last month, Rob McGinnis fired up a new machine that runs combustion in reverse, using electricity to weld carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels,” writes Slashdot reader sciencehabit: McGinnis, a chemical engineer and entrepreneur, has launched a new start-up called Prometheus, in hopes that he will be able to synthesize fuels more cheaply than…

No one was injured in the latest Southern California quake reportedly, but the videos are unnerving. …read more Source:: CNet

The actors behind Eleven, Mike and Will freak out a little while playing Stranger Things 3. …read more Source:: CNet