USA Today asked Steve Wozniak to predict what the world will look like in 2075 — one hundred years after the founding of Apple. An anonymous reader writes: “He’s convinced Apple, Google and Facebook will be bigger in 2075,” according…
Geek Builds His Own NES Classic With A Raspberry Pi
“It turns out that the NES Classic Edition is just a little Linux-powered board inside a cute case,” writes Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica, “and it’s totally possible to build your own tiny Linux-powered computer inside a cute case without…
Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Two New Kinds Of Magnets
“Predicting magnets is a heck of a job, and their discovery is very rare,” said a mechanical engineering professor at Duke University. But after years of work synthesizing various predictions, material scientists “predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom,…
Maryland Awards 21 Grants To Prepare 'Open Source' Textbooks
“The University System of Maryland has awarded 21 “mini grants” to university faculty to “help them expand open education resources,” reports OpenSource.com. Recipients of the grants are also given time off to prepare courses that use open textbooks, and will…
Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints — And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year
While Uber’s bookings doubled last year, the company still showed a net lost of $2.8 billion. And now, “California regulators are recommending that Uber pay a $1.13 million fine for not investigating rider complaints that drivers were working intoxicated.” An…