Americans Believe Robots Will Take Everyone Else's Job, But Theirs Will Be Safe, Study Says; Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government

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[Learn More!]( [Americans Believe Robots Will Take Everyone Else's Job, But Theirs Will Be Safe, Study Says]( [World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost]( [Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government]( [Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals]( [Panasonic Wants Employees To Relax, Limits Work Days To 11 hours]( [Tesla Is So Sure Its Cars Are Safe That It Now Offers Insurance For Life]( [Boeing and Airbus Can't Make Enough Airplanes To Keep Up With Demand]( [Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts]( [FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches]( [Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages]( [Google Renames Messenger To Android Messages as the Company Pushes RCS]( [LG's Latest Battery Is Also a Phone]( [Cloudflare Leaks Sensitive User Data Across the Web]( [Alphabet's Waymo Sues Uber For Allegedly Stealing Self-Driving Secrets]( [With No Fair Use, It's More Difficult to Innovate, Says Google]( [Connecting Networked Devices]( Connected devices are the heart of the IoT. Without those devices or the vital connectivity that brings them to life, the IoT simply would not exist. Industry statistics tell the story: Gartner Research estimates that there are 6.4 billion connected devices in use in 2016 and projects that the number will balloon to 20.8 billion by 2020. The CEO of a major telecom company thinks it is closer to 50 billion connected devices by 2020. In a new report from OReilly Media, you can learn about the requirements needed to connect networked devices - from prototyping to scaling IoT for the enterprise. [Learn More!]( [Americans Believe Robots Will Take Everyone Else's Job, But Theirs Will Be Safe, Study Says]( From the what-we-think department An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: You may accept, by now, that robots will take over lots of jobs currently held by human workers. But you probably believe they won't be taking yours. Though other industries are in danger, your position is... [World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost]( From the undo-button-needed department New submitter drunkdrone quotes a report from International Business Times: A piece of rare meta poised to revolutionize modern technology and take humans into deep space has been lost in a laboratory mishap. The first and only sample of metallic... [Self-Driving Cars Should Be Liable For Accidents, Not the Passengers: UK Government]( From the point-the-finger department "Electric charging points at all major motorway services and petrol stations, and the occupants of a self-driving car aren't liable in the case of an accident -- those are two of the measures proposed by a new law that the UK government hopes will... [Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals]( From the shape-of-things-to-come department As many as five major Hollywood studios have been working with cinema owners to shrink the traditional release window and allow consumers to rent movies on-demand in as little as 17 days after they hit theaters, reports Variety. From the article:... [Panasonic Wants Employees To Relax, Limits Work Days To 11 hours]( From the interesting-changes department Japan is notorious for its long working hours, which have been blamed for a national health crisis known as "karoshi" -- death from overwork. From a report on CNET: Panasonic hopes to curb this, instructing its 100,000-ish employees to work no... [Tesla Is So Sure Its Cars Are Safe That It Now Offers Insurance For Life]( From the confidence-level:-sky department In the self-driving future envisioned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, car owners might be saying "goodbye" to a whole lot more than steering wheels. From a Mashable report: Musk is so sure of the safety features bundled into Tesla vehicles that his... [Boeing and Airbus Can't Make Enough Airplanes To Keep Up With Demand]( From the demand-and-supply-problems department From a report on Axios: Aerospace manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus cannot produce airplanes fast enough to meet demand despite what the Wall Street Journal calls "one of the industry's steepest production increases since World War II." The run... [Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts]( From the live-long-and-prosper department According to a study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have predicted that South Korea will likely become the first country where the average life expectancy will exceed 90 years. The researchers led by public-health researcher... [FCC To Halt Rule That Protects Your Private Data From Security Breaches]( From the quick-before-it's-too-late department According to Ars Technica, "The Federal Communications Commission plans to halt implementation of a privacy rule that requires ISPs to protect the security of its customers' personal information." From the report: The data security rule is part... [Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages]( From the survival-of-the-fittest department An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A new study from computer scientists has found that the online encyclopedia is a battleground where silent wars have raged for years. Since Wikipedia launched in 2001, its millions of articles... [Google Renames Messenger To Android Messages as the Company Pushes RCS]( From the making-do-with-anything department We have come a long way from the age of flip phones and nine-key texting. Even as if group messaging and instant messengers took over, the SMS has largely retained its core standard over the years. Google wants to change that, and for this, it has... [LG's Latest Battery Is Also a Phone]( From the innovations-at-play department An anonymous reader shares an Engadget report: The problem with having a smartphone that you want to use all the damn time is that you'll spend a big chunk of your day wedded to an outlet. LG believes that nobody should have to suffer such an... [Cloudflare Leaks Sensitive User Data Across the Web]( From the time-to-clean-up department ShaunC writes: In a bug that's been christened "Cloudbleed," Cloudflare disclosed today that some of their products accidentally exposed private user information from a number of websites. Similar to 2014's Heartbleed, Cloudflare's problem... [Alphabet's Waymo Sues Uber For Allegedly Stealing Self-Driving Secrets]( From the secret-recipe-for-success department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: It took Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo seven years to design and build a laser-scanning system to guide its self-driving cars. Uber Technologies Inc. allegedly did it in nine months. Waymo claims in a... [With No Fair Use, It's More Difficult to Innovate, Says Google]( From the things-we-all-need department Unlike the United States where 'fair use' exemptions are entrenched in law, Australia has only a limited "fair dealing" arrangement. This led head of copyright at Google to conclude that Australia wouldn't be a safe place for his company to store... Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Google+]( [Submit a Story to Slashdot!]( You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . 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