Technology

Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new wave of government regulation. Four-year-old LodeStar Works on Friday unveiled its 9mm smart handgun for shareholders and Read more…

A Scandinavian hotel chain that fell victim to a ransomware attack last month said it took a novel approach to recover from the incident by switching all affected systems to Chrome OS. Nordic Choice Hotels, which operates 200 hotels across Northern Europe, fell victim to a ransomware attack on December Read more…

Xbox players are growing increasingly frustrated at being forced to play against PC gamers. While crossplay was initially a popular request from Xbox and PC players that Microsoft has backed strongly for years, those playing first-person shooters on Xbox are struggling to opt out of the experience to avoid PC Read more…

“It’s a rock. A small rock,” writes Slashdot reader BeerFartMoron. CBS News reports: China has discovered the explanation for the mysterious “hut” its Yutu 2 rover spotted on the moon late last year. As the lunar rover made a closer approach, a log of its activities revealed the object was Read more…

Boomy is a new AI startup that helps users create their own songs using artificial intelligence software that does most of the heavy lifting. You choose from a number of genres, click on “create song”, and the AI will compose one for you in less than 30 seconds. It swiftly Read more…

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…