The standout rumors about Apple’s upcoming iPhones for 2020. …read more Source:: CNet

Bringing a product to market is not easy, if it were everyone would be doing it, and succeeding. The team at Pycno is in the process of launching their second product, a modular solar powered IoT unit called Pulse. It’s always interesting to get an inside look when a company is so open during the…

The Irish MMA fighter beat Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in less time than it takes to brush your teeth. …read more Source:: CNet

Ars Technica recently ran a rebuttal by author, podcaster, coder, and “mercenary sysadmin” Jim Salter to some comments Linus Torvalds made last week about ZFS. While its reasonable for Torvalds to oppose integrating the CDDL-licensed ZFS into the kernel, Salter argues, he believes Torvalds’ characterization of the filesystem was “inaccurate and damaging.” Torvalds dips into…

The space military uniforms are covered in camouflage, perfect for fighting on the forest moon. …read more Source:: CNet

If you are a glass-half-empty person, you’ll view Charter’s announcement that they will shutter their home security and smart home service on February 5th as another reason not to buy into closed-source IoT devices. If you are a glass-half-full person though, you’ll see the cable company’s announcement as a sign that a lot of Zigbee…

Let’s face it, TV audio quality sucks. A soundbar can provide a big improvement for a small price. Here are our favorites. …read more Source:: CNet

Slashdot reader northar writes: Subtitling project Amara closes its repository as focus is shifting… Amara was AGPL up until going private. While future improvements to the code base from the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) will not be public, a copy of the last public code base has been preserved at Gitlab, should anyone be interested…

When it comes to peer-to-peer file sharing protocols, BitTorrent is probably one of the best known. It requires a client implementing the program and a tracker to list files available to transfer and to find peer users to transfer those files. Developed in 2001, BitTorrent has since acquired more than a quarter billion users according…

Monday Red Hat and IBM jointly filed their own amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the “Google vs. Oracle” case, arguing that APIs cannot be copyrighted. “That simple, yet powerful principle has been a cornerstone of technological and economic growth for over sixty years. When published (as has been common industry practice for…