Renos
CINEMA ROOF 2021
Finally, an appropriate membrane for the cinema (low-incline) roof. Commercial-grade 🙂 matériels to be recycled…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Should Police Be Allowed to Demand Your Cellphone’s Passcode?
When police responded in 2018 to a call about a shattered window at a home in Orange County, they found a black Samsung smartphone near the broken window. A woman in the home identified the phone as belonging to an ex-boyfriend, Johnathan David Garcia, who was later charged with crimes Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from the New York Times about a “particularly unusual” star about 150 light-years away that’s orbited by three planets: What’s unusual is the inclinations of the outer two planets, HD 3167 c and d. Whereas in our solar system all the planets orbit Read more…
Technology
New Commercial Amiga Games are Under Development! :)
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Pixelglass Games and BitBeamCannon are working on new commercial Amiga games. Metro Siege is a 2-player beat ’em up for the Amiga 500 with 1 MB of Ram. You can watch a teaser trailer here. Alarcity is a shoot ’em up for the Amiga Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Will Self-Driving Cars Be Able to Handle… Bears?
A wild bear broke into a parked car looking for food. This set AI pundit Lance Eliot a-thinking… The AI driving system of a self-driving car is always intact. A parked self-driving car is immediately able to become a moving car…. If the self-driving car is making use of its Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
As Demand for Green Energy Grows, Solar Farms Face Local Resistance
Hecate Energy’s plans for a 500-acre solar farm in upstate New York were cut by 50% “after facing an outcry from some in the community who feared the installation would mar the bucolic setting.” The Copake fight mirrors similar battles raging across the country in rural areas like Lake County, Read more…