Lime says it will spend $50 million on a huge e-bike expansion

Lime is getting back to its roots. The scooter company formerly known as LimeBike says it will invest $50 million to grow its shared electr...

Verizon Support Recommends Turning Off 5G to Conserve Battery Life

"Are you noticing your battery life is draining faster than normal?" tweeted Verizon Wireless customer support on Sunday, the Verg...

2021 Golden Globes: Netflix dominates the night, Nomadland takes top honor

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Hollywood Foreign Press Association In a year of ongoing movie delays and stalled television productions, it...

A 'Terminator' Anime Series is Coming to Netflix

Variety magazine reports that Netflix has ordered Terminator anime series: "'Terminator' is one of the most iconic sci-fi stori...

Boston Dynamics Is Selling its 70-Pound Robot Dog To Police Departments

The New York Times reports on what the city's police department calls Digidog, "a 70-pound robotic dog with a loping gait, cameras ...

Bill Gates Prefers 'More Open Nature' of Android, Regrets Microsoft's Missing Phone Market

Bill Gates "prefers the more open nature of the Android ecosystem, as it's more 'flexible' about how software interfaces wi...

Cybersecurity firm says social media bots hyped GameStop during trading frenzy

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge A cybersecurity firm found that bots were promoting GameStop stock on social media before and after t...

Credit Card Payment Systems Crashed Friday at Stores and Restaurants Across America

On Friday credit-card payment systems went down for major businesses scattered across the U.S. Business Insider reports: Fiserv, one of the ...

Minneapolis hiring social media influencers for former police officers’ trials

George Floyd died in police custody in May 2020 | Getty Minneapolis is hiring social media influencers to share “city-generated and appro...

Did 'Tens of Thousands' of Bot Accounts Hype GameStop's Stock and Dogecoin?

Reuters reports: Bots on major social media platforms have been hyping up GameStop Corp and other "meme" stocks, according to an a...

New AI ‘Deep Nostalgia’ brings old photos, including very old ones, to life

MyHeritage An AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia that animates still photos has become the main character on Twitter this fine Sund...

Exploring the Open Source That Really Goes Into a RISC-V Chip

"Maker Andreas Spiess talks about the Open Source that really goes into a RISC-V chip and the ESP32-C3," writes Slashdot reader ni...

The First AI-written Play Isn't Shakespeare - but It Has Its Moments

Science magazine describes what happens when a robot writes a play: The 60-minute production — AI: When a Robot Writes a Play — tells the jo...

The Dream of Sending a Submarine Through the Methane Seas of Saturn's Moon Titan

"Mars, Shmars; this voyager is looking forward to a submarine ride under the icebergs on Saturn's strange moon," says the New ...

How to watch the 2021 Golden Globes online

Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Awards season in Hollywood begins Sunday, February 28th, with the 78th Golden Globe Awards, h...

Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Despite its relentless promotion of 5G phones and the fac...

Vast Energy Use of Bitcoin Criticized

The University of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance has calculated that Bitcoin's total energy consumption is somewhere between 4...

Flaws In Zoom's Keybase App Kept Chat Images From Being Deleted

chicksdaddy writes: The Security Ledger reports that a flaw in Zoom's Keybase secure chat application left copies of images contained in...

Introducing Crowdsec: a Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall

Slashdot reader b-dayyy writes: CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or vir...

Samsung’s shiny red Galaxy Chromebook 2 is now available at Best Buy

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Samsung’s latest Chrome OS laptop, the Galaxy Chromebook 2, is now avail...

Disinformation experts aren’t happy about the trailer for HBO’s QAnon series

Supporters of former President Donald Trump flew a US flag with a QAnon symbol outside the Capitol on January 6th. | Photo by Win McNamee/G...

America Authorizes Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use

America's Food and Drug Administration just authorized Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, according to CBS ...

How Facebook Silenced an Enemy of Turkey To Prevent a Hit To the Company's Business

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this report from ProPublica: As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in ...