upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337A German court has told startup insurer Lemonade to stop using the color magenta in marketing after an objection from T-Mobile
canopic jug writes:Physics World has a pair of articles on Eben Upton, co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. One is an interview about the growing role that Raspberry Pi computers has in industrial activities and the other concentrates on his background, which was originally in physics.From the interview on the Raspberry Pi in industrial settings:
canopic jug writes:Several sites are reporting that several of Twitter's staff were allegedly spying for Saudi Arabia against its critics.From Wired: Twitter Insiders Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia
upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for soylent_red.Well the fastest path is accelerating straight down but still...Boeing's lunar lander pitch promises 'fastest path' to the moon
upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow1337.Walmart reaches settlement with Tesla over solar panel fires, drops lawsuit – TechCrunch
RandomFactor writes:Scientists in Sweden and Belgium have discovered a new material that expands (or contracts) by orders of magnitude in response to application of a weak electric current.
RandomFactor writes:A gorgeous fish popular in aquariums, the lionfish was released into the Atlantic off of Florida in the 1980s and has since spread down to South America. The voracious Indo-Pacific fish has no natural predators here and so continues to increase in numbers, menacing reefs and native fish populations. To counter this marine misfortune, iRobot, not satisfied hunting down dirt and pet hair, has developed a lionfish hunting sea robot!
canopic jug writes:System administrator and former ski instructor, Albert Valbuena, has posted a table with accompanying analysis comparing several of the BSDs against Illumos and Linux. Among the topics in the analysis are licensing, how licensing is abused by companies, benchmarking, and of course a comparison of how various features are or aren't implemented across the spectrum.