Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Submission + - Signal app experiencing worldwide outage (ndtv.com) 2

JoeyRox writes: The Signal app network is down worldwide. Users are able to log in but can't send or receive messages. When contacted about the outage, Signal's COO Aruna Harder said "We have been adding new servers and extra capacity at a record pace every single day this week, but today exceeded even our most optimistic projections. Millions upon millions of new users are sending a message that privacy matters, and we are working hard to restore service for them as quickly as possible." Signal was downloaded by 17.8 million users over the past seven days, a 62-fold rise from the prior week. Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp before selling it to Facebook and then co-founding the Signal Foundation, said that the expansion in recent days had been "vertical".

Submission + - 'Magic mushrooms' grow in man's blood after injection with shroom tea (livescience.com)

John Trumpian writes: A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.

The man spent 22 days in the hospital, with eight of those days in the intensive care unit (ICU), where he received treatment for multisystem organ failure. Now released, he is still being treated with a long-term regimen of antibiotic and antifungal drugs, according to a description of the case published Jan. 11 in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Submission + - Medical study suggests iPhone 12 with MagSafe can deactivate pacemakers (9to5mac.com)

AmiMoJo writes: When Apple revived MagSafe with the iPhone 12 lineup, one question brought up was how these latest devices with more magnets would interact with medical devices like pacemakers. Apple’s official word was that iPhone 12/MagSafe wouldn’t interfere more than previous iPhones. Now one of the first medical studies has been published by the Heart Rhythm Journal that saw a Medtronic pacemaker deactivated by holding an iPhone 12 near it (via MacMagazine). It doesn’t sound like there is concrete evidence that iPhone 12 and MagSafe do pose a greater risk of increased interference but with this study out now, we may see more testing in the medical field to find out for sure.

Of course it’s not just iPhones or smartphones that can create interference issues, it can be any item that contains magnets strong enough create a problem.

Comment Antitrust is coming for Amazon (Score 5, Insightful) 71

At this point, a breakup of Amazon seems like a great idea. Split them into a logistics operation that handles the warehouses and last mile delivery and sells that handling service to anybody at an equitable price. Split AWS off into its own company. Amazon Prime gets split into it's Netflix competitor and a logistics membership. Amazon Basics and all the other self-dealing Amazon does on its marketplace gets its own company, without access to the data from the marketplace. That leaves the marketplace itself, which should have capped listing fees or accept liability for the products, but no more fat rake with no guarantees.

Comment This is the wrong question (Score 1) 2

Lines of C code or kB of compiled C code doesn't have any relation to the size/complexity/development cost of an ASIC.

Basically, you should constrain the problem by figuring out what the cost of the cheapest general purpose CPU and associated IO hardware would cost, and then figure what it would cost as a SoC by summing.

The ASIC, to be marketable, needs to either exceed that solution in performance or cost.

You should also look at the cost of ASICs that do similar work, possibly combining several if that's required. That gives you another estimate.

Writing your algorithm in verilog and programming an FPGA is a 3rd method.

Comment Re:When can auto-drive be trusted? (Score 1) 116

> What is a realistic time frame?

It's a societal change that needs to occur. Current SDC can handle good weather, well-maintained roads, etc, but struggles with ambiguous situations (unprotected left, pedestrian walking on the shoulder). If we, as a society, decided that SDCs are more like trains, and you had best stay out of the way, and anyone getting injured by one is to blame, then we could have SDCs very soon.

There is precedent for this in jaywalking. Look up the history of that term and how the auto manufacturers basically created a crime out of thin air to shift liability away from their creations.

Comment First step in stopping the cheaters (Score 0) 43

Lots of people are using mouse and keyboard through 3rd party adapters on Xbox to gain competitive advantage (aiming in an FPS is much more precise with a mouse).

Step #1 here is to let people use it legitimately against other M+KB users, and build a data set of what M+KB input looks like versus controller input

Step #2 is maybe using the ML model from step #1 to ban people using M+KB adapters to cheat.

Slashdot Top Deals

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.

Working...