Amazon has made a quiet change to older Echo speakers that will leave owners rethinking how they use their devices and manage their home audio setups.

SpaceX's Starship has a big role to play in NASA's plans to land astronauts on the Moon. Here's how big this rocket is and how its two stages work together.

It's annoying when your Apple AirPods run out of juice, but the culprit might not be what you think. Here's what's going on and what you can do about it.

Anthropics Felix Rieseberg retires coding tasks in interviews after deciding that Claude does a better job.

Slate and Ford are both building affordable electric pickups, and that means compromises. But the two automakers are taking very different paths to get there.

A wealth of not-so-well-known features on Microsoft Teams make the experience easier stress-free than you may have previously thought.

If you've ever looked at the end of a plug, you've probably wondered why some have holes, and some don't - and no, it's not actually a big conspiracy theory.

Binance says it has restored backing for 90% of assets affected by its $6.3 billion hack and is planning to resume withdrawals, subject to security checks.

If there are aspects of Netflix streaming that aren't to your liking, there are several changes you can make to optimize your viewing experience.

CNN reports: The popular theory that comets were crucial in kick-starting life on Earth billions of years ago may not hold up, according to new computer simulations that counter decades of scientific thinking. The finding suggests the fragile organic molecules supposedly carried by the icy objects would have been destroyed on impact, upending an established origin of life theory that dates back to at least 1961 [with earlier versions postulated in 1908]... Early in its history over 4 billion ..

Nothing started rolling out the stable version of Nothing OS 5.0 based on Android 17 to the Nothing Phone (3) earlier this month, and now four more devices are joining in. The Nothing Phone (4a), Phone (4a) Pro, Phone (3a), and Phone (3a) Pro are now receiving the update. As usual, the rollout is staggered, so not everyone will get the update at the same time. To manually check for it, go to Settings System System update. Make sure you back up your data first, and don't be alarmed if your phone ..

This weeks IRL protest escalates the viral hate campaign against the car insurance mascot while raising the question: are people just lonely and bored?

User data has been subpoenaed by ICE to investigate speech critical of Trump's immigration policy.

When your AirPods refuse to show up on your iPhone, the cause is usually simpler than you'd think. Here's where to look first and what to try next.

BBS-era "door" games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site's actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and "how different people later transformed the original images," starting from one of the most popular bulletin board systems in St. Louis, Missouri. Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writes: "Fire Escape" was curator of the authoritative list of bulletin board systems in St. Louis's area code and sysop of the area's most popular ..

HBM4 bandwidth dropped 13% while NVLink dropped 17%, and it took six weeks for anyone to notice.

The Colossus data centers and a power plant that SpaceXAI is also building in Southaven, Mississippi, have faced community backlash for years.

Brandon Stirrup deleted his comments from X a day after saying that AI usage is widespread in the gaming industry.

The funding round is still in progress and has not closed, so the figures are subject to change, a person directly familiar with the deal told CNBC.

Companies like Google, Netflix, TikTok, and Meta may soon owe the French government, reports Tom's Hardware: France has approved a proposed tax that aims to tax the amount of internet data per gigabyte sent to French users in the country... According to minutes released by the National Assembly, members voted 11-10 in support of the motion on October 30 which now means the new law has been added to the country's next budget, despite major opposition from the government side and the finance ..

The Bambu Lab P1S earned our Editor's Choice recognition in testing, and this discounted bundle gives you access to its high-speed printing capabilities alongside the convenience of the AMS color printing system.

Oracle's co-founder knows that AI will fundamentally change how we interact with apps, but he predicts huge opportunities ahead.

Roku only sells one streaming device that doesn't support 4K output.

Lawrence partially made her name off playing Mystique, but she's not itching to return to those scales anytime soon.

The Hubble Space Telescope "will plunge back into the atmosphere in the early- to-mid-2030s," reports Ars Technica. So now NASA has released a Request For Information (RFI) "asking commercial companies for ideas on how to reboost, service, or a controlled disposal of Hubble." Specifically, NASA is looking for information about companies' current and near-term capabilities for capturing Hubble and boosting it to an altitude of at least 373 miles (600 km), enhancing the telescope's performance, or ..

Handy features of your AirPods can be overzealous, leading to disconnections and unwanted device swapping.

HMD launched the Pulse Pro back in April 2024, and now a refreshed version of the device has shown up at a retailer in Thailand according to a tipster on X. It's called HMD Pulse Pro 2nd Edition, and it's listed by what appears to be the Nokia Official Shop for THB 4,990 (about $148). The listing mentions a 120Hz screen, the MediaTek Helio G99 chipset (which it claims is 45% more powerful than before), 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, a 50MP main camera, and a 50MP selfie camera, with some "AI ..

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The PS5 isn't as good of a buy today as it was early in its life, so you should be aware of the drawbacks in this awkward console generation.

Slashdot reader ElectricVs shares this report from American Buildout, a new site covering "the intersection of data centers, energy and power, finance, and Main Street." Dozens of unexplained drones flew over and near U.S. nuclear facilities between February 2024 and March 2026, according to records the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made public this week. In all, facility operators filed 67 reports of drones over or near 28 sites in 17 states. They include the Three Mile Island site near ..

Bolt Graphics has been working on its simulation-centric Zeus GPU for a while now and has reached a significant milestone: a successful test run.

Samsung has released the latest version of its wearable OS, One UI 9 Watch, and most of its watch lineup will get the update - except these.

Few things are more annoying than an unresponsive touchscreen. Before you give up on your phone, here's what to try to get it working again.

Earlier The Drive reported a police chief "had to direct his staff to disconnect the power cords from Flock cameras in Plymouth, Minnesota after Flock Safety ignored and failed to respond to the department's notice the city was canceling its service. "But in other instances Flock's gone and reinstalled cameras without permission," The Drive reported this week: On September 29th the city of Dayton, Minnesota posted a community update on its Facebook page alerting residents that Flock had ..

Using an old PC to create your own server can save you quite a bit of money through a couple of avenues. Here's what it can do.

Spotify can be a storage hog if you don't have your device's settings optimized. Here's what you can do if Spotify is taking up too much storage.

Budget gutted and shuttles grounded, the federal agency can only appeal to the private sector for help.

Pavi and Nisha went through a lot in the first book of 'Avatar: Seven Havens,' and things only get tougher from here.

USB cables, much like their HDMI cousins, have limits on how long they can be. The thing is, those limits are probably much lower than you expected.

French lawmakers have approved an amendment proposing a 0.055-per-gigabyte tax on digital content delivered to internet subscribers in France. The measure could generate an estimated 10 billion annually, with companies including Google, Meta, Netflix and potentially TikTok among those affected. However, the proposal still faces further parliamentary scrutiny, while government officials have raised concerns about its implementation, measurement requirements and potential impact on smaller ..