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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...
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...
What happened after India banned TikTok? The move 'mostly drew widespread support' notes the Associated Press, in a country 'where protesters had been calling for a boycott of Chinese goods since the deadly confrontation in the remote Karakoram mountain border region.'...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Tech giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically and to benefit the common good... The ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Times of India: Several Apple customers were inexplicably locked out of their Apple ID accounts Friday evening in a major service disruption, forcing them to reset their passwords across all devices and services. According to...
Saturday April 27, 2024. 11:34 PM
This week Russia vetoed a UN resolution that proposed banning nuclear weapons in space, CNN reports. But it all happened 'amid U.S. intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites.' In February, President Joe...
'A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning,' reports CBS News, 'after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording...' One-time Pikesville High School employee Dazhon Darien is facing charges that...
Reuters reports that America's Federal Aviation Administration 'is investigating a union's claims that Boeing retaliated against two employees who in 2022 insisted the planemaker re-evaluate prior engineering work on 777 and 787 jets.' The employees' union 'said the two...
America's Federal Trade Commission 'is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers,' reports the Associated Press, 'as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access.' In a 2023...
1,000 petabytes. A million terabytes. One quintillion bytes (or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). That's the amount of storage reported by users of the Ceph storage solution (across more than 3,000 Ceph clusters). The Ceph Foundation is a 'directed fund' of the Linux Foundation,...
'For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism,' reports the Independent: The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as ...
'Intel used to dominate the U.S. chip industry,' writes CNBC. But now 'it's struggling to stay relevant.' Intel's long-awaited turnaround looks farther away than ever after the company reported dismal first-quarter earnings. Investors pushed the shares down 9% on Friday to...
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