Day: September 8, 2019

From steam to speed: The trains of Tokyo’s Railway Museum – CNET

Bullet trains and steam locomotives of Japan’s past at Tokyo’s Railway Museum. …read more Source:: CNet


‘It Shouldn’t Be This Hard To Responsibly Fly a Drone’

The B4UFLY app from America’s Federal Aviation Administration tells you where you can and can’t fly your drone. But a senior writer for IEEE Spectrum reports that in fact the app “ignores both local and national regulations,” and concludes after some field-testing in Oregon that it’s “in many situations, worse than useless.” Buried in a…


Note 10 Plus vs. Note 9: Which phone should you buy? – CNET

Let’s work out if you need to spend more on the latest Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus, or less on last year’s Note 9. …read more Source:: CNet


Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We’ve got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you’re quick

Come join us at our Serverless Computing London conference this November Event Serverless Computing London hits Westminster again this November, and if you’re a charity or similar non-profit, we’d love for you to join us.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Drowning in tabs? Here’s how to make Google Chrome work for you

It’s so easy to keep on opening tabs only to find yourself cast adrift in an ocean of webpages, not able to navigate yourself back to the information you need. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Your phone powers a personal movie theater you wear on your face – CNET

This pair of prototype glasses is like Google Glass, minus the creep factor. …read more Source:: CNet


Following Galaxy Fold release, Huawei’s foldable Mate X phone could sell in October – CNET

Suffering a delay, the Mate X may soon have the 5G support and apps it needs to compete against Samsung’s $2,000 foldable phone. …read more Source:: CNet


You Didn’t See Graphite Around This Geiger Counter

Even if you don’t work in a nuclear power plant, you might still want to use a Geiger counter simply out of curiosity. It turns out that there are a lot of things around which emit ionizing radiation naturally, for example granite, the sun, or bananas. If you’ve ever wondered about any of these objects,…


Ask Slashdot: How Will The Internet Affect The Next Generation?

dryriver writes: Growing up in the 1980s/90s I don’t remember being embroiled in many “heated arguments” with youths my own age. There were small differences of opinion on various things — whether a band is a great or not, whether a book is worth reading or whatever — but nothing anywhere near the heated opinion…


How Many Commodores Does It Take To Crack A Nut?

It’s brilliant enough when composers make use of the “2SID” technique to double the channels in a Commodore 64 with two sound chips, but even then some people like to kick things up a notch. Say, five times more. [David Youd], [David Knapp] and [Joeri van Haren] worked together to bring us just that, ten…