On November 23rd, 2024 with 33 comments
Slashdot reader jjslash shared this report from TechSpot:
The SilverStone FLP01 made quite the impression when it was shared on X for April Fools' Day 2023....
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On December 12th, 2023 with 28 comments
Five years after founding Atari in 1972, Nolan Bushnell started work on a chain of pizza restaurants with singing animatronic robots and videogames —...
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On August 20th, 2023 with 187 comments
"Italian producers of parmesan cheese have been fighting against imitations for years," writes the Wall Street Journal, adding "Their latest trick to beat...
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On April 23rd, 2023 with 47 comments
"Thousands of stunned guests were on hand Saturday night to watch a Disneyland malfunction for the ages," writes SFGate — when a 45-foot-tall animatronic...
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On March 5th, 2023 with 108 comments
Perhaps AI "needs a little more work," writes ZDNet columnist Chris Matyszczyk — noting problems with the automated voice-recognition systems at...
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On August 21st, 2022 with 25 comments
Here's an interesting story from the Washington Post. (Alternate URL here...)
When the Green Bay Packers walked onto the practice field this week, they were...
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On November 17th, 2019 with 40 comments
Gizmodo reports that Sony "will happily sell you make-believe virtual meals" for their robotic Aibo dog to unlock tricks, one of several new features added...
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On August 17th, 2019 with 42 comments
option8 ((Slashdot reader #16,509) writes: TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world's combined economies, and take...
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On August 12th, 2019 with 69 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Ken McE shared a video of a new working prototype for a wearable tail.
Engadget reports:
There are lots of companies who make...
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On August 3rd, 2019 with 137 comments
By the end of the year, Stop & Shop will have installed 500 "giant, gray, aisle-patrolling robots" in its chains of stores, reports Mashable, starting in...
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On June 9th, 2019 with 111 comments
Long-time Slashddot reader Rei writes: On the face of it, sodium seems like about the worst thing you could make a wire out of — it oxidizes rapidly in...
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On September 8th, 2018 with 51 comments
The Los Angeles Dodgers will try a high-tech giveaway for their September 21st game: "Digital Bobblehead Night." DevNull127 quotes the digital editor for...
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On November 25th, 2017 with 42 comments
Slashdot reader AmiMoJo reports: Sharp's COCOROBO (heart-bot) vacuum cleaners can not just clean your house. They have cameras that can be viewed from a smart...
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On June 19th, 2016 with 117 comments
An anonymous reader writes: As America celebrates Father's Day, The Next Web reports on an IBM engineer who found a way to combine his daughters' interest in...
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On September 9th, 2015 with 150 comments
New submitter jddj writes: The Next Web reports on a hilarious design failure built into Cisco's 3650 and 3850 Series switches, which TNW terms "A Network...
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On May 29th, 2014 with 107 comments
LoLobey (1932986) writes "Scott Adams has proposed a pyramid project
to save the world via energy generation and tourism. Basically build giant
pyramids, miles...
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On October 30th, 2013 with 133 comments
Sockatume writes "The BBC is reporting that Dell's Latitude 6430u Ultrabooks have an interesting characteristic you won't find in any Macbook Air: the palm...
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On July 17th, 2013 with 88 comments
sciencehabit writes "The newest source of battery power for your cell phone is both cheap and abundant. Scientists report that microbial fuel cells using human...
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On January 22nd, 2013 with 299 comments
kkleiner writes "No longer will they say, 'He's going to end up flipping burgers.' Now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. San Francisco based...
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On November 19th, 2012 with 733 comments
garymortimer writes "Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering....
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On August 22nd, 2012 with 243 comments
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Softpedia reports that Global Link Security Solutions are offering a product that doesn't actually do anything to alert an owner of...
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On August 14th, 2012 with 151 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the introduction to Inhabit's article on the upcoming launch of an art project cum satellite intended to be as different as possible...
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On July 27th, 2012 with 55 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The processing power available inside modern supercomputers isn't just able to help us better understand the universe we live in,...
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On April 30th, 2012 with 48 comments
mikejuk writes, quoting I Programmer: "If you are looking for an exciting hardware project, KegDroid deserves a look. It is a sophisticated system that...
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On April 29th, 2012 with 132 comments
mikejuk writes "John Graham-Cumming is the leading light behind a project to actually build the analytical engine dreamed of by Charles Babbage. There is a...
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On April 5th, 2012 with 125 comments
Hugh Pickens writes "Alasdair Wilkins writes that when a squirrel encounters a rattlesnake in the wild, it does something very peculiar to survive its brush...
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On March 30th, 2012 with 68 comments
MrSeb writes "Ken Schweller, a computer scientist and psychologist, and also the chairman of the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, has a vision: He wants to...
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On March 8th, 2012 with 429 comments
itwbennett writes "Server naming is well-trod ground on Slashdot. But as new generations enter the workforce, they're relearning the fundamentals of what makes...
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On March 6th, 2012 with 155 comments
cylonlover writes "When Chaotic Moon Labs debuted the Kinect-powered Board of Awesomeness — and its mind-reading offspring, the Board of Imagination...
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On March 1st, 2012 with 370 comments
MrSeb writes "Japanese researchers have created a hand-held gun that can jam the words of speakers who are more than 30 meters (100ft) away. The gun has two...
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