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Switch games will be compatible with the forthcoming follow-up to Nintendo's popular but long-in-tooth portable console. But company president Shuntaro Furukawa offered few further details about the new system in his statement, beyond reiterating that the Switch 2 will be...
At this point, I think it’s safe to say the current wave of “AI everything” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Let’s not sugarcoat it: The vast majority of generative-AI gobbledegook is unreliable, impractical, and more about marketing than any manner of real-world ...
In a decisive victory, Trump won every swing state that has been called so far.
Need to know how to set up a business? There's an (experimental) AI for that From the department of 'this will go well' comes confirmation UK government is trialling an experimental chatbot with 15,000 business users, who can use it to ask questions about tax and available...
Microsoft developers have pushed out PowerToys v0.86.0. To answer the first question that follows the release of a new version of this utility collection -- no, there are no new modules this time around. There are, however, numerous new features to justify getting excited,...
Ars Technica's Eric Berger reports: When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster. The rocket was fully expendable, with three stages and solid motors...
The arrival of quantum computing, like nuclear fusion, is one of those things that always seems predicted to be a decade or more away, but the issue of quantum cryptography is on the doorstep now. While quantum computers have the ability to break current encryption methods...
'First impressions matter' but a KDE flavor is in the making – and more publicly at that Ubuntu Summit At this year's Ubuntu Summit in The Hague, we were really hoping to hear some news about Canonical's new immutable desktop distro.…
Most people are familiar with data in the form of a spreadsheet, with labeled columns of different data types such as name, address, age, and so on. Databases work the same way, with each table laid out according to a strict schema. Dataframes are structures used in data...
You would be hard-pressed to find a software manager who didn’t want to be “agile.” But I’m guessing that a vanishingly small percentage of them have actually read the Agile Manifesto. And I’m guessing even fewer have given any real thought to what agile means and ...
Java’s internal systems and syntax are constantly evolving, and these changes happen primarily through the Java Community Process (JCP) and Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs). Together, the JCP and JEPs define the path by which new features can be described, designed,...
Won't make a difference for institutional investors, but retail traders be warned, analyst tells El Reg On Friday, Nvidia will supplant Intel after 25 years as the semiconductor sector's representative on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.…
The legal industry is not traditionally recognized as one that is quick to embrace change, but recently, some professionals have been embracing emerging technology maybe a little too quickly, leading to all kinds of problems. The use of generative AI tools has exploded in...
Major media outlets are beginning to declare former President Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election, having secured 270 electoral votes. 'He becomes the first president in more than 120 years to lose the White House, and then to come back and win it again, after ...
Change of mind follows discovery China was playing with it uninvited? Meta has historically restricted its LLMs from uses that could cause harm – but that has apparently changed. The Facebook giant has announced it will allow the US government to use its Llama model family ...
Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with tech If an entire major city was designed from scratch today, what technologies would be built into its fabric? We're discovering as we watch Indonesia erect a new capital with tech at its heart.…
Photos from the nation’s most critical swing state paint a picture of two Americas at odds with each other.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Google CEO Sundar Pichai has weighed in on the debate over the relative values of political expression and workplace coexistence by ordering employees to leave their political opinions at home. A day after firing 28 workers...
Bitcoin surged over 9.2% to an all-time high of over $74,200 on Tuesday evening as early results showed favorable outcome for Republican candidate Donald Trump, who has promised crypto-friendly policies if he wins. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Parasite became the first non-English language film in Oscars history to win best picture in 2019, it marked a breakthrough moment for Korean cinema. But the surge of interest that followed the director Bong Joon-ho's international...
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