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Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - "Companies like Tesla and SunRun are starting to bid on utility contracts that would allow them to string together dozens or hundreds of systems that act as an enormous reserve to balance the flow of electricity on the grid," reports Quartz. "Doing so would accelerate the grid's transformation fr...
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A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time - Slashdot
developers.slashdot.org - OpenSourceAllTheWay writes: The Economist's 1843 magazine details one middle-aged writer's (Andrew Smith) quest to learn to code for the first time, after becoming interested in the "alien" logic mechanisms that power completely new phenomena like crypto-currency and effectively make the modern w...
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Eric Schmidt Says Elon Musk Is 'Exactly Wrong' About AI - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - At the VivaTech conference in Paris, Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about Elon Musk's warnings about AI. He responded by saying: "I think Elon is exactly wrong. He doesn't understand the benefits that this technology will provide to making every human being smarter. The fact of the matter is...
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TeenSafe App Password Leak
informationsecuritybuzz.com - The ISBuzz Post: This Post TeenSafe App Password Leak appeared first on Information Security Buzz. News broke this week that the TeenSafe app allowing parents access to their children’s web browser history, text messages (including deleted SMS and iMessages and messages on WhatsApp and Kik), an...
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Google Zooms By Amazon In Smart Speaker Shipments, Report Says - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - A new report released this week says that Google has surpassed Amazon in global smart speaker shipments in the first quarter of 2018. "[Research firm Canalys] says Google shipped 3.2 million Google Home and Home Mini speakers over the course of the quarter," reports Ars Technica. "Amazon, meanwhi...