Collaborate Disseminate
“A Michigan woman got the Secret Santa gift of a lifetime this Christmas — an 81-pound package from Bill Gates,” reports CNN:
The gifts included an original manuscript of “The Great Gatsby,” signed by Gates; books; toys for her cat and Harry Potter … Continue reading Bill Gates Gives Reddit User An 81-Pound ‘Secret Santa’ Gift
“Travis Casagrande, a research associate at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at Hamilton’s McMaster University has created the smallest gingerbread house ever built,” writes long-time Slashdot reader Mr.Fork, “even smaller than the one made … Continue reading Researcher Uses Focused Gallium Ions To Build A Microscopic Gingerbread House
Slashdot reader ne0phyte73 writes:
I got my first computer (a Commodore 64) when I was 13. My daughter got hers (One Laptop Per Child) when she was 5.
What are the current trends?
I see new AI-powered edutainment products coming to the market, tar… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: At What Age Should Toddlers Get Screen Time?
It’s the first day of December, which means the return of an annual geek tradition: the computer programming advent calendars!
An anonymous reader delivers this update:
It’s the very first year for the Raku Advent Calendar (using the language formerl… Continue reading 2019 Sees More Geeky Advent Calendars
“1983 had seen an explosion of home computer models of varying capabilities and at various price-points,” remembers the vintage computing site Paleotronic, looking back at the historic tech battle between Commodore, Texas Instruments, and eventually Co… Continue reading Remembering The Home Computer Christmas Wars of 1983
Holiday shopping is in full force—Tis the season to be shopping, some would say. Unfortunately, during seasonal times such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve, while we are preparing to spend time with family and friends, we must … Continue reading Tis the Season to be a Prudent Shopper
An anonymous reader writes:
Saturday the Perl Advent Calendar entered its 19th year by describing how the Wise Old Elf used a Calendar::List module from CPAN to update his Elven Perl Monger website with all the dates for 2019. (“It is a well known fac… Continue reading 2018 Advent Calendars Launched for Computer Programmers and Web Geeks
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget:
Dive into the Easter egg section on your EV and you’ll discover a reindeer button that invokes a Santa Mode. To say it brings a Christmas vibe to your car would be an understatement. It turns your car into Santa’s s… Continue reading Tesla’s Newest Holiday Update Includes an Easter Egg: ‘Santa Mode’
An anonymous reader quotes Kotaku:
He’s been this way for over an hour, and as word’s gotten out the audience has swelled to over 30,000… The Twitch stream opened a couple hours ago on an empty chair. A few minutes later Kaplan walked in and sat down… Continue reading 36,744 People Are Watching Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan Sit Motionless With A Yule Log
Here at Hackaday, we find Christmas time very exciting because it means an influx of holiday-themed hacks that really help us get into the festive mood. [Andrew’s] programmable Christmas tree hosted at HackMyXmas is certainly one of our favorites. The project consists of a 500 RGB LEDs wrapped around a typical Christmas tree and controlled by a Teensy. However, not settling for the typical, simple and cyclical pattern for the LEDs, [Andrew] decided the tree had to be programmable of course! So, a single board computer (a C.H.I.P) running Linux was used to provide a Wifi connection and a web …read more
Continue reading Programmable Christmas Tree is a JavaScript Interpreter