A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that offers hope to hundreds of thousands of patients with failing organs. It is the first successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human being. The eight-hour operation took place Read more…
Two LAPD officers who were fired from their jobs in 2017 for playing Pokemon Go while on duty have had their appeal for reinstatement denied by a California judge. The officers’ squad car video camera showed the two officers, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, ignored a request for backup to Read more…
The omicron-driven surge has sent COVID-19 hospitalizations skyrocketing across the U.S., reaching a new pandemic high this week with 145,982 patients hospitalized. This exceeds the previous high recorded in January last year, according to data tracked by the Department of Health and Human Services, from more than 5,400 hospitals in Read more…
Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch “can now be viewed on computers everywhere in ultra high definition,” writes The Hill. But ultra high definition is an understatement, according to long-time Slashdot reader dr_blurb. “Some tech specs: 717 Gigapixels in a 5.6 terabyte image: 8,439 individual images, taken with a 100 megapixel Read more…
“Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes?” asks IEEE Spectrum: Hollywood’s worst-case scenario involving artificial intelligence (AI) is familiar as a blockbuster sci-fi film: Machines acquire humanlike intelligence, achieving sentience, and inevitably turn into evil overlords that attempt to destroy the human race. This narrative capitalizes on Read more…
Panasonic has announced plans to offer a four-day workweek to employees in Japan in an effort to improve productivity and attract better workers, according to a new report from Nikkei Asia. From a report: The move comes after the Japanese government made official recommendations to private employers in 2021 that Read more…
“Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers,” reports security researcher Brian Krebs. The TL;DR is that yes, Norton does install a crypto miner with its software, without making that clear in the initial setup Read more…