Will a Pandemic Wave of Automation Be Bad News for Workers?

The New York Times reports: When Kroger customers in Cincinnati shop online these days, their groceries may be picked out not by a worker in...

New Instant Water Disinfectant 'Millions of Times More Effective' Than Commercial Methods

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares news from UPI: The creators of a new instant water disinfectant, made using only hydrogen and the s...

Still-Troubled Hubble Space Telescope Once Snapped a Red, White, and Blue Image

For three weeks the "payload computer" has been down on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and "Without it, the instruments o...

CNN Reports 'Unprecedented Heat, Hundreds Dead' as Climate Change Hits the Northern Hemisphere

Canada's highest temperature ever recorded happened Tuesday, in the small British Columbia town of Lytton, reports CNN. But it's jus...

Former Trump advisor’s Gettr platform appeared to be briefly hacked Sunday

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Several verified profile pages on Gettr, the new social media platform from Jason Miller, once an...

Trese mashes a police procedural with a sinister supernatural world

Comics have never been bigger: with Marvel TV shows, DC movies, and indie adaptations growing by the day, comic books have never been more ...

San Francisco Startup Hopes to Open Sushi Bar Serving Lab-Grown Salmon

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a startup named Wildtype that hopes to open a unique sushi bar this fall serving salmon grown in a la...