A 37-year-old credits his MacBook Pro laptop with saving his life during a shooting at the baggage claim of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. An anonymous reader quotes WPLG Miami: He placed it in his backpack, but didn’t think of…
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague?
An anonymous reader writes: What’s the best unofficial way to deal with a gaslighting colleague? For those not familiar, I mean “bullies unscheduling things you’ve scheduled, misplacing files and other items that you are working on and co-workers micro-managing you…
TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders
ShaunC writes: In San Diego, TV news anchor Jim Patton was covering a separate story about a child who accidentally ordered a doll house using her family’s Echo. Commenting on the story, Patton said “I love the little girl, saying…
Google Boosts Python By Turning It Into Go
An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: Grumpy, an experimental project from Google, transpiles Python code into Go, allowing Python programs to be compiled and run as static binaries using the Go toolchain… In a blog post announcing the open source release,…
Apple Could Finally Sell More Devices Than Microsoft In 2017
Gartner predicts Apple will ship more iOS and macOS devices in 2017 than Windows-powered devices “for the first time this century,” and then increase their lead over the next two years. An anonymous reader quotes Computerworld: Gartner predicted that iOS…