The US Navy's Plans for a Railgun Are Finally Dead

Anyone who's played Quake remembers the railgun weapon. The U.S. Navy spent $500 million trying to build a real one, according to Popula...

The Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G is a good phone with a too-short shelf life

For $399, it doesn’t do enough to stand apart from the less expensive 4G-only version Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https...

Chinese Startup Unitree Begins Selling a Headless Robot Dog for $2,700

Long-time Slashdot reader cusco shares an interesting report from IEEE Spectrum: In 2017, we first wrote about the Chinese startup Unitree R...

Twitter Accused of 'Deliberately' Defying Indian Government's New Social Media Rules

Twitter has "deliberately" defied and failed to comply with India's new social media rules, according to the country's tec...

Firefox Begins Testing Sponsors on Some Users' Default Home Page/New Tab Pages

Earlier this year a new support page appeared at support.Mozilla.org describing sponsored shortcuts (or sponsored tiles), "an experimen...

Chinese Astronauts Reach New Space Station For Three-Month Mission

For the next three months, three Chinese astronauts will live on a cylinder-shaped module measuring 16.6 metres by 4.2 metres (54 feet by 13...

California Defies Expectations of Doom, Promises Massive Tax Rebate

As California approaches the biggest state tax rebate in U.S. history, Bloomberg News co-founder Matthew A. Winkler questions its reputation...