Month: January 2021

WandaVision episode 4 recap: MCU characters give us the answers we want – CNET

Plus plenty of questions and one truly horrifying image. …read more Source:: CNet


OpenCV And Depth Camera Spots Weeds

Using vision technology to identify weeds in agriculture is an area of active development, and a team of researchers recently shared their method of using a combination of machine vision plus depth information to identify and map weeds with the help of OpenCV, the open-source computer vision library. Agriculture is how people get fed, and…


Asus readies Chromebook Flip CM3000 tablet with detachable keyboard, 10.5-inch full HD display

Unannounced at CES with the company’s other Chromebooks, this Chrome OS tablet has had its specs and images leaked on a few online retailer sites and is expected to compete with Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy: New Research Says #42 Really Is Our Number

Just 11 months before his death in 2001, famous author Douglas Adams answered questions from Slashdot readers. And Slashdot reader Informativity still remembers how Adams (also a Doctor Who script editor) had included a supercomputer named Deep Thought in his first book which spent 7.5 million years to determine that the answer to the Ultimate…


Brush for a full year with this ADA-approved electric toothbrush for $16 – CNET

Why spend $200 on an electric toothbrush when you can put all that money into candy and still get this brush? …read more Source:: CNet


Dandara: Trials of Fear is a $15 game that’s free this week from Epic – CNET

This week’s free game is a nifty Metroid-inspired platformer full of puzzles and exploration. …read more Source:: CNet


Researchers Try Using CRISPR To Genetically Engineer Zika-Resistant Mosquitoes

A new research study at the University of Missouri is using CRISPR gene-editing technology to produce mosquitoes that are unable to replicate Zika virus and therefore cannot infect a human through biting. Slashdot reader wooloohoo shared an announcement from Cornell’s Alliance for Science: Alexander Franz, an associate professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine,…


Are We Overestimating the Number of COBOL Transactions Each Day?

An anonymous Slashdot reader warns of a possible miscalculation: 20 years ago today, cobolreport.com published an article, according to which there are 30 billion Customer Information Control System/COBOL transactions per day. This number has since been cited countless times… [T]his number is still to be found in the marketing of most COBOL service providers, compiler…


Reddit wants to send AMC, GameStop stock to the moon. Here’s how – CNET

Wall Street’s big bets against GameStop were upended when users from a Reddit forum decided to bet on its success instead. Now billions of dollars are at stake. …read more Source:: CNet


Old Gas Meter gets Smart with the ESP8266

Measuring the usage of domestic utilities such as water, gas or electricity usually boils down to measuring a repetitive pulse signal with respect to time. To make things easy, most modern utility meters have a pulsed LED output, which can be used to monitor the consumption by using an external optical sensor. But what do…