Judge Finally Clears Way for Apple's $500 Million iPhone Throttling Settlement - "Owners of some older iPhone models are expected to receive about $65 each," repor... - https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/08/13/1822230/judge-finally-clears-way-for-apples-500-million-iphone-throttling-settlement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #iphone

The Untold History of Today's Russian-Speaking Hackers - Monday sees the release of "The Billion Dollar Heist," a documentary about the th... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/2150218/the-untold-history-of-todays-russian-speaking-hackers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #crime

Making Things Square in Three Dimensions - Measure twice, cut once is excellent advice when building anything, from carpentry... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/13/making-things-square-in-three-dimensions/ #threedimensions #metalworking #toolhacks #carpentry #diagonals #welding #saddle #square #string #twist

Why Was Silicon Valley So Obsessed with LK-99 Superconductor Claims? - What to make of the news that early research appears unable to duplicate the much-... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/0459233/why-was-silicon-valley-so-obsessed-with-lk-99-superconductor-claims?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #science

Common Alzheimer's Disease Gene May Have Helped Our Ancestors Have More Kids - Science magazine reports:

Roughly one in five people are born with at least one c... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/1942234/common-alzheimers-disease-gene-may-have-helped-our-ancestors-have-more-kids?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #science

Apple’s M3 Ultra Mac Studio could have a 32-core CPU and up to 80 GPU cores - The M3 Ultra Mac Studio. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/13/23830405/apple-m3-ultra-cpu-gpu-mac-studio-mac-pro

How to Turn an Asteroid into a Space Habitat (Using Self-Replicating Spider Robots) - A retired Technical Fellow from Rockwell Collins "released a 65-page paper that de... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/08/13/0450209/how-to-turn-an-asteroid-into-a-space-habitat-using-self-replicating-spider-robots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #space

Eliminating Charge-Carrier Trapping In Organic Semiconductors - For organic semiconductors like the very common organic light-emitting diode (OLED... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/13/eliminating-charge-carrier-trapping-in-organic-semiconductors/ #organicsemiconductor #chargetrap #science #oled

Lectric XP Trike Review: Cheap Three-Wheeled Ebike - This low-cost electric trike opens up the outdoors to more people, but three wheels have ... - https://www.wired.com/review/lectric-xp-trike/ #gear/products/outdoor #productreview #gear/reviews #gear

How to Find a Home or Apartment in a City You Don't Live In - Finding the perfect place to live in another state—or country—is challenging, but with a ... - https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-find-home-apartment-new-city-state-country/ #gear/howtoandadvice #openhouse #gear

A Million and One Spielberg Wannabes Flood TikTok - Shooting the short videos sometimes involves duct tape and ocean waves. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-million-and-one-spielberg-wannabes-flood-tiktok-a3cd6269?mod=rss_Technology #paid

A New Idea for How to Assemble Life - How would scientists even recognize biological signs of life beyond Earth? Assembly theor... - https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-idea-for-how-to-assemble-life/ #itscomplicated #science/space #science

7 Best Monitors (2023): Budget, Ultrawide, 4K, Portable - The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we re... - https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-monitors/ #gear/products/computers #gear/buyingguides #buyingguide #gear

Stuffing a 32-Pin Chip Into a 28-Pin Socket - What’s the difference between a 64k ROM in a 28-pin DIP and a 128k ROM in a 32-pin... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/13/stuffing-a-32-pin-chip-into-a-28-pin-socket/ #retrocomputing #39sf010 #pull-up #27c512 #65uino #eeprom #bodge #flash #rom

How to Use Focus Mode to Get Work Done in Windows - Windows comes with its own productivity-boosting tool—here's how it works. - https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-focus-mode-windows/ #gear/howtoandadvice #distractionfree #gear

Professors have a summer assignment: Prevent ChatGPT chaos in the fall - College professors worry that ChatGPT will sow chaos on campuses this fall. They also awa... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/13/ai-chatgpt-chatbots-college-cheating/

The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers - In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scan... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html #copyrightsandcopyrightviolations #assnofamericanpublishers #booktradeandpublishing #librariesandlibrarians #e-booksandreaders #internetarchive #kahlebrewster #authorsguild

Modern Demo for a Casio PB-700 Pocket Computer Plotter - [Fred] has a Casio PB-700 pocket calculator / computer, complete with the companio... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/13/modern-demo-for-a-casio-pb-700-pocket-computer-plotter/ #retrocomputing #microcassette #midjourney #pocketpc #plotter #pb-700 #casio

Bryan Johnson: Meet the multi-millionaire trying to reverse aging - With a team of 30 scientists, tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson spends millions on his body... - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66490722?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Should There Be an 'Official' Version of Linux? - Why aren't more people using Linux on the desktop? Slashdot reader technology_dude... - https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/08/12/1835204/should-there-be-an-official-version-of-linux?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #linux