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Sunday November 10, 2024. 05:35 AM
On Tuesday Massachusetts voted to become the first state to allow gig-working drivers to join labor unions, reports WBUR: Since these gig workers are classified as independent contractors, federal law allowing employees the right to unionize does not apply to them. With the...
Friday 'would have been his 38th birthday,' writes the EFF, remembering Aaron Swartz as 'a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open...' And they add that today the official web site for Aaron Swartz Day honored his memory with a special...
TL;DR: These refurbished MacBook Airs make perfect holiday gifts—head to checkout now to save 77% while supplies last. Picture this: They tear open the wrapping paper, expecting another pair of slippers or a 'World's Best Friend' mug. Instead, their eyes widen in disbelief ...
This week Discover magazine looks at evidence — both old and new — for a ninth planet in our solar system: 'Orbits of the most distant small bodies — comets or asteroids — seem to be clustered on one half or one side of the solar system,' says Amir Siraj [an astrophysicist...
Saturday November 9, 2024. 11:57 PM
'The majority of strokes could be prevented,' reports the Associated Press, according to the first new guidelines in 10 years from the American Stroke Association, which are 'aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that.' Stroke was the fourth leading cause of...
TL;DR: Save 64% on this Helios men's heated coat that comes with its own power bank. Winter is coming, and sooner than you'd like to admit. Last year was dubbed the 'Year of Record Cold Temperatures,' and you definitely don't want to be shivering every time you step out of...
Tuesday at California's Vandenberg Space Force base, the U.S. launched a Minuteman III missile, 'in an important test of the weapon's ability to strike its targets with multiple warheads,' according to Air and Space Forces magazine: The Minuteman III missiles that form a...
Back in 1976, Mattel Electronics Auto Race became the very first handheld game to use only solid-state electronics, according to Wikipedia. (Its only mechanical elements were its on/off switch and hand-operated controls...) Nearly half a century goes by — until the ancient...
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Digital Trends: A number of popular generative AI platforms are seeing consistent growth as users are figuring out how they want to use the tools â' and ChatGPT is at the top of the list with the most visits, at 3.7 billion...
I've never seen an image that describes what it's like to use someone else's shower better than this one. This extremely accurate meme shows a shower with a Rubik's cube instead of a shower handle. I've had far too many situations as a guest at someone else's house where...
After missing a chance to capitalize on the AI boom, 'Samsung's profit has plunged,' reports CNBC, and 'around $126 billion has been wiped off its market value, according to data from S&P Capital IQ.' It's gotten so bad that 'an executive issued a rare public apology about...
The Debian project has announced its latest point release for Debian Linux 12, codenamed “bookworm,” marking the eighth update to this stable distribution. This 12.8 update primarily addresses security issues and fixes various critical bugs, enhancing the reliability and ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week... Intel thankfully has the resources to maintain this automated service for per-kernel...
This series of photos by artist Katja Kemnitz shows stuffies before and after they've been loved. The series evokes feelings of nostalgia and sentimentality for childhood. It's also visually fascinating to see how the stuffies have changed in appearance over time. — Read...
Member of a crack commando unit that escaped from a maximum security stockade to take refuge in the Los Angeles underground way back in 1972, B.A. Baracus famously had a fear of flying. The A-Team, however, could not let this stand in the way of their do-goodery. — Read the...
Though it breaks down faster than CO2, methane is a greenhouse gas over 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide, reports the Washington Post. It suddenly started increasing in the atmosphere in 2007 — and then in 2020, its growth rate doubled. While scientists have suspected it...
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A 2002 Slashdot post informed the world that 'Recently Blake Ross, a developer of the Phoenix web browser, has made a post on the Mozillazine forums looking for a new name for the project. Apparently the people over at Phoenix Technologies decided that the name interferes...
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