We found Google’s original answer to the Amazon Echo for $75, about 25% cheaper than anywhere else. …read more Source:: CNet

Microwaves used to be simple to use. Set the dial for the desired time, and hit start. Then, everything went digital and the average microwave now takes between four and six button presses in precise order just to start heating. Music players have gone down a similar path, and those that grew up in the…

Humble’s End of Summer Sale has titles priced up to 90% off. …read more Source:: CNet

Launching today is America’s classified NROL-44 spy satellite, which German public broadcaster DW calls “a massive, open secret”: NROL-44 is a huge signals intelligence, or SIGINT, satellite, says David Baker, a former NASA scientist who worked on Apollo and Shuttle missions, has written numerous books, including U.S. Spy Satellites and is editor of SpaceFlight magazine….

So sorry this keeps happening. Best out of three, er, four, er ten? Stop us if you’ve heard this one before – or not because you have absolutely heard this one before – but Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is very sorry he helped make society a little worse.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

On the I’m So Obsessed podcast, Hall explains the complexities and appeal of a southern strip club, and how her nearly all-female creative team humanized sex workers and black working-class women. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes The New Stack: While there are some who may never get over the fact that the Istio service mesh, originally created by Google and IBM, will not be handed over to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the project took a big step this past week to assuage those who critiqued the…

Heart44 writes: There is a lot of C-14 radioactive waste from graphite rods that is expensive to store. This graphite can be converted to C-14 diamonds covered in C-12 diamonds. C-14 has a half-life of 5,700 years, so such batteries would last a long time and are supposedly safe. Sounds like an April fool but……

This week our own [Donald Papp] wrote a thought-provoking piece on buying and selling 3D-printer models. His basic point: if you don’t know what you’re getting until you’ve purchased it, and there’s no refund policy, how can you tell if your money is being well spent? It’s a serious problem for these nascent markets, because…

Canoo’s eponymous, loungelike EV is loaded with clever engineering that sets it apart from other electric cars. …read more Source:: CNet