Day: July 7, 2019

Canonical GitHub Account Hacked, Ubuntu Source Code Safe

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DJI Fights Back Over Sensationalist Drone Reporting

Over the past few years the number of reported near misses between multirotors, or drones as they are popularly referred to, and aircraft has been on the rise. While evidence to back up these reports has been absent time and again. We’ve looked at incident reports, airport closures, and media reporting. The latest chapter comes…


Astrophysicist Tries Machine Learning To Generate a Black Hole Movie

One of the scientists who worked on the black hole picture is now pursuing an even more ambitious visualization, this time for the super-massive black hole at the center of our own galaxy. Long-time Slashdot reader Esther Schindler shares this report from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Insights blog: Lia Medeiros, a physicist, astrophysicist, and National Science…


AMD Radeon RX 5700 series battles for 1440p gaming – CNET

The new midrange RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT cards make a good first impression. …read more Source:: CNet


A journalist’s wrecked MacBook keyboard tells a terrible story

Many stories have emerged of Apple’s entirely unreliable new keyboard. One man, though, posts a picture of his and it’s truly painful. Coincidentally, Apple is now rumored to be killing this butterfly forever. …read more Source:: ZDNet


We can’t drive the Honda E, so let’s watch the Junkyard Wars guy do it instead – Roadshow

Fully Charged’s Robert Llewellyn was invited to drive the new Honda electric city car in Frankfurt, not that we’re jealous or anything. …read more Source:: CNet


Can You Beat The World’s Worst User Interface?

Design firm Baggar writes: A user assumes certain actions to be in a certain place or color because interface designers worldwide have been collaboratively educating users and feeding them these design-patterns. But what happens if we poke all good practice with a stick and stir it up? What if we don’t respect our self-created rules…


Low Res Video Card is Still Amazing Since It’s Made Out Of Logic Chips

[Ben Eater] has been working on building computers on breadboards for a while now, alongside doing a few tutorials and guides as YouTube videos. A few enterprising hackers have already duplicated [Ben]’s efforts, but so far all of these builds are just a bunch of LEDs and switches. The next frontier is a video card,…


Heroes of TV shows and movies can still fly at Planes of Fame Museum – CNET

From a TV star B-17 to a movie star and the only flying, original Mitsubishi Zero, the Planes of Fame Museum has some incredible aircraft. Here’s a look around. …read more Source:: CNet


These fabulous fliers at the Planes of Fame museum want to live forever – CNET

Starring in numerous TV shows and movies, most of the rare and incredible aircraft at the Planes of Fame Museum can still fly. Here’s a look at their amazing collection. …read more Source:: CNet