[memestra] is a teacher whose life has become a series of videoconferences over the last year or so. With all the classes and meetings, they spend the whole day switching between either Zoom, Teams, or Meet. If anyone needs a single piece of hardware to control them all, it’s [memestra]. Well, and every other teacher…

Visual Studio Magazine reports: Microsoft, which calls its Excel spreadsheet a programming language, reports that an effort called LAMBDA to make it even more of a programming language is paying off, recently being deemed Turing complete. Being Turing complete is the litmus test of a full-fledged programming language, marking the ability to imitate a Turing…

Get growing with seeds, flower bulbs, plants and other garden supplies delivered safely to your home. …read more Source:: CNet

Misinformation on vaccines has run rampant on the internet, but some people are hoping vaccine selfies could help open a dialogue with skeptics. …read more Source:: CNet

The episode also gives us the answers we want, plus plenty of questions and one truly horrifying image. …read more Source:: CNet

“More than at any point since the QAnon conspiracy began, there is a tremendous opportunity to pull disaffected followers out of the conspiracy,” writes FiveThirtyEight. And while it’s just one of three possible scenarios, online posts suggest at least some members are abandoning the group, “but they will need support to really sever their connection.”…

Ex-BBC chairman, former RIPE NCC boss lined up to run .UK registry as caretakers if campaign successful The UK internet industry has called for the ousting of the CEO and board of Nominet – the organization that operates the .uk registry – accusing them of lining their own pockets at the expense of charitable causes…

We like to feature hacks that are affordable and accessible to the average person, but from time to time it’s fun to dream about the projects we’ll tackle when we’re all grown up and stinking rich. [Mike Patey] appears to fall rather comfortably in the latter category, but thankfully he hasn’t lost his “excited kid…

Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes a recent blog post from BoingBoing: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most crammed-with-digital-tech fighter jet in history, the product of a multi-decade, trillion-dollar design process that has been famously messy. But the jet is out there, and pilots are flying it. One big design shift with the F-35…

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from Sky.com: Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi “has invented a new fusion rocket thruster concept which could power humans to Mars and beyond,” writes Sky.com Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared their report: The physicist who works for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory designed the rocket which…