“As the promise of autonomous machines lags the underlying technology, the growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce,” reports The Wall Street Journal. An anonymous reader shares excerpts from the report: Across industries, engineers are building atop work done a generation ago by designers of military drones. Whether it’s terrestrial delivery robots, flying delivery drones, office-patrolling security robots,…
Tag: Gaming
Does Playing Video Games Improve Your Workplace Performance?
“Businesses are waking up to the skills gamers can bring to the workplace,” argues the BBC, adding that “Even the military is hiring gamers.” “The ability to assimilate information, react swiftly and co-ordinate actions whilst remaining calm under pressure are often attributes of people that are good at gaming,” a Royal Air Force spokesperson tells the BBC. Those skills are part…
Wi-Fi 6 Will Upgrade Your Workhorse Wireless Network
Wi-Fi 6, the consumer-friendly new name for the tech standard actually called 802.11ax, won’t just boost data-transfer speeds — though it’ll do that, by a factor of three or so. It’ll also reach into corners of our house farther away from network gear, better handle the crush of people at airports and stadiums, and sidestep interference from your neighbors’ noisy network….
Ask Slashdot: What’s The Best Monitor For Development Work?
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo is having trouble finding a monitor that’s good for writing code: The 16:10 aspect ratio, which allows for some extra vertical space that is extremely handy when viewing source code, is basically dead as far as I can tell. Dell still sell a few older models but there no 4k+ monitors with this aspect ratio. Speaking of…
Ask Slashdot: Should Microsoft Make an Xbox Phone?
dvda247 writes: Since there’s the Nintendo Switch and previously there was the Sony PSP (Playstation Portable), should Microsoft make an Xbox Phone? There are already ‘gaming phones’ like the ASUS ROG Phone 2, but should Microsoft jump back into the smartphone game to make a phone running Android that is focused primarily on playing Xbox One games? Xbox Game Pass and…
Researcher Publishes Second Steam Zero Day After Getting Banned on Valve’s Bug Bounty Program
A Russian security researcher has published details about a zero-day in the Steam gaming client. This is the second Steam zero-day the researcher has made public in the past two weeks. From a report: However, while the security researcher reported the first one to Valve and tried to have it fixed before public disclosure, he said he couldn’t do the same…
Intel Patches Three High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Intel’s latest patches “stomped out three high-severity vulnerabilities and five medium-severity flaws,” reports Threatpost: One of the more serious vulnerabilities exist in the Intel Processor Identification Utility for Windows, free software that users can install on their Windows machines to identify the actual specification of their processors. The flaw (CVE-2019-11163) has a score of 8.2 out of 10 on the CVSS…
E3 Accidentally Doxxed Over 2,000 Journalists, YouTubers, and Streamers
The Entertainment Software Association, which runs the E3 video game expo, accidentally made phone numbers, emails, names, and addresses of over 2,000 attendees public on their website. “A copy of the list was archived on several popular message boards for trolls, and includes the home addresses of many reporters,” reports BuzzFeed News. From the report: The leaked list was discovered by…
Amazon Delivery Drivers Part Of Theft Ring Selling ‘Millions’ in Stolen Goods on Amazon
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press: The two contract delivery drivers working for Amazon had a clear-cut assignment: They were supposed to bring packages from a warehouse south of Seattle to a post office for shipping, or sometimes drive to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to pick up items that were being returned to the company. Instead, the FBI said in a…
Zen 2 Ryzen IPC Testing Shows AMD Has Closed the Performance Gap With Intel
MojoKid writes: AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 processors can boost as high as 4.6 GHz, a notable bump over previous Ryzen models, but what about AMD’s purported Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) gains? Has AMD’s Zen 2 architecture finally caught up to Intel’s Coffee Lake-based Core series processors in terms of IPC? To prove this out, HotHardware pitted a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X…