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73-Year-Old Clifford Stoll Is Now Selling Klein Bottles
O'Reilly's "Tech Trends" newsletter included an interesting item this month: Want your own Klein Bottle? Made by Cliff Stoll, author of the cybersecurity classic The Cuckoo's Egg, who will autogr...
One of Disneyland's Longest-Running Attractions is Ditching Fossil Fuels
When Disneyland opened in 1955, its car-themed attraction Autopia "represented the future of what would become America's multilane limited-access highways," according to Wikipedia, " which were s...
13-Year-Old Wins Science Fair with 'Death Ray' Experiment. Sort of...
It was an idea first proposed by Archimedes, reports CNN. But now, "Brenden Sener, 13, of London, Ontario, has won two gold medals and a London Public Library award for his minuscule version of t...
Disneyland's New 'Pixar Place' Hotel is Like Visiting the Studio
The Orange County Register reports: The new Pixar Place Hotel next door to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure is designed to look like you've walked onto the Pixar Animation Studios campu...
God Told Him to Launch a Crypto Venture, Said Pastor. Now He's Accused of Pocketing $1.2M
In Denver, Colorado, a pastor had a message for his congregation, reports CNN. "After months of prayers and cues from God, he was going to start selling cryptocurrency, he announced in a YouTube ...
Disney Demos 'HoloTile Floor' with Possible Applications in Shared Virtual Reality
In the last 90 seconds of a recent Disney Parks video, there's a demonstration of a new technology called a HoloTile floor. Disney research fellow/R&D "imagineerer" Lanny Smoot specifies that "we...
Is the Internet About to Get Weird Again?
Long-time tech entrepreneur Anil Dash predicts a big shift in the digital landscape in 2024. And "regular internet users — not just the world's tech tycoons — may be the ones who decide how i...
Animatronic Robots Make Their Last Stand at Atari Founder's 'Chuck E. Cheese'
Five years after founding Atari in 1972, Nolan Bushnell started work on a chain of pizza restaurants with singing animatronic robots and videogames — called Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre...
1993's 'Second Reality' Demo Recreated for the Apple II
Long-time Slashdot reader deater writes: The Second Reality demoscene demo from 1993 is one of the most well known demos of all time, pushing a 486 running DOS to its limits. There have been rema...
When Matthew Perry Met Windows 95
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: In 1994 the TV show Friends premiered, and its first season's high ratings made it the 8th most-popular show. The next year Microsoft released Window...
Cleanup Begins at Burning Man Site: a Few Abandoned Cars, Plus a Burned-Out RV
Late Friday a Burning Man press release claimed that "zero stuck or abandoned vehicles remain on site or on the exit road, as people have returned with friends and tow trucks to retrieve them." B...
Cheese-Makers Track Their Parmesans By Embedding Edible, Blockchain-Enabled Microchips
"Italian producers of parmesan cheese have been fighting against imitations for years," writes the Wall Street Journal, adding "Their latest trick to beat counterfeiters is edible microchips. "No...
Some People Are Having Sex in San Francisco's Robotaxis
An anonymous reader shared this report from the San Francisco Standard: As autonomous vehicles become increasingly popular in San Francisco, some riders are wondering just how far they can push t...
Bill Gates Launches New Podcast, Tells Seth Rogen About Smoking Pot
Thursday Bill Gates launched a new podcast called "Unconfuse Me." ("What do you do when you can't solve a problem? I like to talk to smart people who can help me understand the subject better..."...
Hundreds of Drones Crash Into River During Display
Long-time Slashdot reader maxcelcat writes: A fleet of some 500 drives were performing a display over Melbourne's Docklands in the lead up to the FIFA Women's World Cup. About 350 of them didn't ...
In Hawaii, GPS Keeps Sending Drivers Into the Ocean
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: In April a tourist in Hawaii followed GPS driving directions straight into a harbor. And one month later, another tourist did the exact same thing — driving i...
How the NFL Scheduled 272 Football Games Using 4,000 Virtual AWS Servers
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: AWS offered A Look Inside the Making of an NFL Football Schedule in conjunction with Thursday's release of the 2023 NFL Schedule Powered by AWS. AWS notes...
What Happens When AI Tries to Generate a Pizza Commercial?
The Today show's food reporter delivers a strange report on a viral AI-generated ad "for an imaginary pizza place called 'Pepperoni Hug Spot'." Everything looks slightly ... off. Generated by AI,...
Racehorse Owned by 391 Users of a Sports-Investment App Wins Kentucky Derby
This year's Kentucky Derby was won by a 15-to-1 longshot named Mage, reports sports magazine the Athletic. It was only the horse's third race — but the story gets even stranger: Mage is owned b...
Could We Build a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Using Jupiter for Raw Materials?
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Futurism: We'd need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere, a giant theoretical shell that would harvest all of ...
The People Turning Time Into a Currency
The BBC looks at free websites like TimeRepublik, "which describes itself as 'a timebank for the internet era'." Time banking is in essence a more sophisticated form of bartering. You don't pay s...
Ben & Jerry's Cofounder Launches Nonprofit Cannabis Line
The "Ben" in Ben & Jerry's "has gone from ice cream to cannabis with a social mission," reports the Chicago Tribune: Ben Cohen has started Ben's Best Blnz, a nonprofit cannabis line with a stated...
An Enormous Animatronic Dragon Caught on Fire at Disneyland
"Thousands of stunned guests were on hand Saturday night to watch a Disneyland malfunction for the ages," writes SFGate — when a 45-foot-tall animatronic dragon burst into flames, and continued...
AI-Generated Viral Videos are Already Here
AI now "automates creative impulses," writes New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka — then wonders where that will lead. Chayka's first example is a Berlin-based photographer using AI tools to cre...
Planned NFT-Based Private Club in San Francisco Stalled by Uncompleted Permitting Steps
Remember that entrepreneur planning an ostentatious NFT-based restaurant/members-only club in San Francisco? Seven months later it's still "an empty husk of a building, hindered by construction d...