Season 2 of Flack, starring Anna Paquin, premiered on Friday. …read more Source:: CNet

Back in 2009, then-governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger requested $4.7 billion in federal stimulus money to help build an 800-mile bullet train system from San Diego to San Francisco. “We’re traveling on our trains at the same speed as 100 years ago,” the governor said. “That is inexcusable. America must catch up.” Nearly 12 years…

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s celebration of music, culture and community is exactly the movie musical we deserved. …read more Source:: CNet

The Justice Department was looking for the source of media reports about contacts between Trump associates and Russia, The New York Times reports. …read more Source:: CNet

A new extension for Microsoft’s code-editing tool, Visual Studio Code, “allows you to open, edit, and commit back to source-control repos without having to clone them on your local machine,” explains a new video. A Microsoft blog post calls it “a new experience that we’ve been building in partnership with our friends at GitHub to…

For years, Europeans have been browsing the central aisles of the German Aldi and Lidl supermarket chains, attracted by the surprising variety of transitory non-grocery bargains to be found there. There are plenty of temptations for hackers, and alongside the barbecues and Parkside tools at Lidl last year was a range of Zigbee home automation…

McDonald’s equiped 10 of its restaurants in Chicago with automated speech-recognition for their drive-through windows. Now they’re facing a potential class-action lawsuit. Long-time Slashdot reader KindMind shares this report from the Register: McDonald’s has been accused of illegally collecting and processing customers’ voice recordings without their consent in the U.S. state of Illinois… The state…

The proposals, from a bipartisan group in the US House, target Big Tech’s might with the most meaningful effort to reform competition laws in decades. …read more Source:: CNet

Today is Record Store Day, an annual event celebrating the culture of independently-owned record stores. And music industry players have said they actually got more money from the sale of vinyl records than they do from YouTube. But is that changing? The New York Times reports those figures are from a time when YouTube was…

The proposals, from a bipartisan group in the US House, target Big Tech’s might with a wide-ranging antitrust agenda. …read more Source:: CNet