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Monday April 29, 2024. 06:50 PM
Razer will have to fork over $1.1 million in refunds to customers who purchased its RGB-clad Zephyr face mask, according to a proposed settlement announced by the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. From a report: The company claimed the face mask used N95-grade filters, but ...
Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic -- to reduce it by 40% in 15 years -- in an attempt to protect human health and the environment. From a report: As the world attempts to make a treaty to cut plastic waste at UN...
Amazon says its deliveries are getting even faster, announcing that it delivered over 2 billion items the same or next day to Prime members during the first three months of 2024, breaking its record for 2023. From a report: The company says it delivered almost 60 percent of...
Austria called on Monday for fresh efforts to regulate the use of AI in weapons systems that could create so-called 'killer robots', as it hosted a conference aimed at reviving largely stalled discussions on the issue. From a report: With AI technology advancing rapidly,...
The United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to ban default guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. Unique passwords installed by default are still permitted. From a report: The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 ...
Oakland, California is now home to 'the first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the United States,' according to the Los Angeles Times — serving 30 hydrogen fuel-cell trucks. The newspaper says the facility 'could mark the start of a nationwide network...
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wants to tell you about a 'new' star that will be visible to the naked eye — without a telescope — sometime before September: By 'star', I do not mean 'comet', 'meteorite' or 'firefly', but genuine [star] photons arriving here after about ...
Though it's long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes Slashdot reader Bruce66423, sharing this report from the BBC. 'A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with an airline's booking system.' The problem occurs...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world's biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India into ...
An anonymous reader shared a report this week from Reuters: The U.S. Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S. lawmakers... The technology is being used by...
Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal Trade Commission has now 'accused' Amazon of using Signal, reports the Seattle Times: The newspaper notes that the app 'can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related to...
Sunday April 28, 2024. 11:19 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares 'an interesting essay on the history of orthodoxy in quantum mechanics,' published this week in Nature. Its title? ''Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality.' [T]he views of Danish physicist Niels...
'In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%,' according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, 'one of the fastest declines ever seen in clean energy technologies.' And it's expected to get even cheaper, reports Reuters: An expected...
This year Dell moved to soldered RAM for its XPS 14 and 16, writes Digital Trends, which 'makes it impossible to upgrade, or even repair.' 'This was a big change from the past, where the XPS 15 and 17 were both celebrated for their upgradability.' Of course, Dell isn't the...
In September NASA's James Webb Space Telescope investigated an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, and 'revealed the presence of carbon-bearing molecules including methane and carbon dioxide.' Webb's discovery adds to recent studies suggesting that [planet] K2-18 b...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar...
They're calling it 'the world's largest 3D printer,' but also 'the factory of the future' — not just a 3D printer, but a manufacturing system. It's the succcessor to a 3D printer that could create an entire house, cutting construction time and labor, according to the...
'South Korea is considering prohibiting the use of iPhones and smart wearable devices inside military buildings,' reports the Defense Post, 'due to increasing security concerns.' But the blog Apple Insider argues the move 'has less to do with security and more to do with a...
It's another speech-recognizing, AI-powered handheld device 'about half the size of a phone,' writes CNET. (Though the $199 device comes with a keyboard and a tiny 2.8-inch screen.) 'The Rabbit R1 can identify items in its environment. Point it at a plant, and it can tell...
Japan's moon lander 'has woken up again,' reports the Register, 'having survived three lunar nights.' A post on social media from the lander's X account confirmed that once more, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had defied the odds and snapped a picture of...
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