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Sunday December 22, 2024. 03:34 PM
It's holiday time, and that means that the annual shelter-dogs-picking-out-their-holiday-toys videos are dropping! One of the best this year is the video posted recently by the Humane Educational Society, which features over a dozen of the adorable pooches entering one by...
Comedian Conan O'Brien lost both his parents with three days of each other; his father passed away on December 9, and his mother on December 12. His parents were exceptionally accomplished. In addition to raising their family of six children in Brookline, Massachusetts, Dr....
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations. The project's latest release focuses on performance and Bluetooth support: 'One of the most notable changes...
We all know—and love—that cats make biscuits, and we even have archaeological evidence that such feline biscuit making occurred 1200 years ago! But I bet you didn't know that binturongs—those adorable creatures that WIRED describes as having 'a face like a cat, a body l...
L'Oréal's first professional hair dryer combines infrared light, wind, and heat to drastically reduce your drying time.
The Washington Post visits one of over 100 tide-tracking stations around the U.S. — Georgia's Fort Pulaski tide gauge: Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest rates in the country, according to a Washington Post...
Just because you use Chrome doesn’t mean you have to use Google. Learn how to invite Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, or even ChatGPT into your omnibox.
Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.
A software update was supposed to free up the PS Portal from its reliance on the PS5 and add a world of streamable games to its appeal. In practice, it does nothing of the sort.
The number of issues standing in the way of people hoping to update their computers to Windows 11 24H2 just seems to keep on growing. The latest problems confirmed by Microsoft are an issue with Auto HDR, and another relating to Dirac Audio. In both cases, Microsoft has...
With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?
'From the moment GPT-4 came out in March 2023, OpenAI has been working on GPT-5...' reports the Wall Street Journal. [Alternate URL here.] But 'OpenAI's new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. It isn't clear when — or if — it'll...
TL;DR: Double your screen space with 20% off this 15.6-inch portable monitor. Working on a tiny, single screen feels like trying to cook in a shoebox. Between endless tab switching and squinting at text, it’s a miracle you get anything done. A lot of people are getting...
TL;DR: With our end-of-year sale, you can pay only $119.97 for Microsoft Office 2024 Home for PC or Mac instead of $149.99. If you’ve been putting off upgrading Microsoft Office, consider this your sign. Office 2024 has smarter tools for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plus...
The world's first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK's University of Bristol. Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from LiveScience:...
Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of data.. The outage had...
TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2021 comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, and it's only $59.97 (reg. $219) through December 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Remember when every piece of essential software wasn't a subscription? That was cool. Let's go back to that. — Read the rest ...
'More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of perhaps the world's most high-profile alleged killer,' Wired wrote this...
An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News: U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, released Thursday, found...
Saturday December 21, 2024. 11:02 PM
Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe is also long-time Slashdot reader ReneR — and popped by with a special announcement for the holidays: The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed 'Sky's the Limit!', delivering a massive update for this highly...
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