Transformers have an obvious use for increasing or decreasing the voltage in AC systems, but they have many other esoteric uses as well. Electric motors and generators are functionally similar and can be modeled as if they are transformers, but the truly interesting applications are outside these industrial settings. Wireless charging is essentially an air-core…

Microsoft may be looking to acquire one of its health and AI partners, Nuance Communications, according to a report, and could be willing to pay as much as $16 billion for it. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“Astrophysicists have found a new region of the Milky Way, and it’s filled with searingly hot, bright-blue stars that are about to explode,” writes Live Science (in a report shared by long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot): The researchers were creating the most detailed map yet of the star-flecked spiral arms of our galactic neighborhood with the…

Inside.com’s developer newsletter reports: The PHP team no longer believes the git.php.net server was compromised in a recent attack, which prompted PHP to move servers to GitHub and caused the team to temporarily put releases on hold until mid-April… In an update offering further insight into the root cause of the late March attack, the…

An anonymous reader shares this announcement from NASA: Based on data from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter that arrived late Friday night, NASA has chosen to reschedule the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first experimental flight to no earlier than April 14 [this Wednesday]. During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling…

[Robert Murray-Smith] doesn’t like the price of inverters to convert DC to AC. That led him to build a dynamotor, or what is sometimes called a motor-generator set. These devices are just DC motors driving a generator. Of course, motors can also be used as generators and [Robert] had a stack of brushless motors in…

New TVs are coming out now, but their prices are as high as they’ll ever be. Waiting a few months can save you hundreds of dollars. …read more Source:: CNet

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is still extremely difficult to find. Here are links to all the stores selling Sony’s hot hardware. …read more Source:: CNet

Roman Reigns defends his Universal Championship against Edge and Daniel Bryan. …read more Source:: CNet

Whether or not more warehouse employees try to organize, regulators and the public remain focused on working conditions at Amazon. …read more Source:: CNet