The Raspberry Pi 5 Arm SBC is now powerful enough to challenge some Intel systems in terms of performance, while Intel has made the Intel Alder Lake-N family, notably the Intel Processor N100, inexpensive and efficient enough to challenge Arm

Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal Trade Commission has now "accused" Amazon of using Signal, reports the Seattle Times:The newspaper notes that the app "can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related

Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares "an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics," published this week in Nature.Its title? "'Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality." [T]he views of Danish physicist

"In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%," according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, "one of the fastest declines ever seen in clean energy technologies."And it's expected to get even

Though it's long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC."A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline's booking system."The

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world's biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge

An anonymous reader shared a report this week from Reuters:The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers...The technology is being

Enlarge / The slide-on Joy-Con connection point shown in the center of the image may be a thing of the past on the Switch 2The iconic slide-in "click" of

Enlarge (credit: Getty | Jeffrey Greenberg)The Food and Drug Administration reported late Thursday that about 20 percent of retail milk samples from around the country tested positive for genetic fragments

The best smart pen can accurately capture and transfer handwritten notes to paired devices for a digitalized note-taking experience. Most of these pens are compatible with Android and

Smartphones are complex pieces of equipment with myriad components inside making them tick. Some parts, like display panels, systems-on-a-chip, and camera lenses make obvious differences. Other components spend

In recent years, researchers have been experimenting with a wide range of solar cell designs in the hope of facilitating their widespread deployment. Organic solar cells based on perovskite materials have been found to exhibit various advantages over conventional solar

This weekend we're tracking a pair of AirPods deals at Amazon, including savings on the AirPods 2 and AirPods Pro 2. The cheapest model starts at just $89.00 for the AirPods 2, down from their original price of $129.00.Note: MacRumors