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Black holes 'often exhibit long periods of dormancy,' writes Popular Science, adding that astronomers had never witnessed a black hole 'wake up' in real time. 'Until now...' In February of 2024 X-ray bursts were spotted coming out of a black hole named Ansky by Lorena...
Microsoft has released its third preview of.NET 10, a planned update to the company’s cross-platform, open-source, application development platform. Among the highlights,.NET 10 Preview 3 introduces an AOT-safe constructor for ValidationContext, more powerful C# language...
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TL;DR: You can get a Sam's Club membership half off for the first year right now; just $25. Want to take your fam out to a members only club? Sam's Club is the place to see and be seen and save money. — Read the rest The post The hottest exclusive club: Sam's Club membership...
People 'are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments,' reports CNN, citing results from a recent experiment in Germany (discussed on Slashdot in 2020): Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), the...
The Washington Post reports: The United States urgently needs more energy to fuel an artificial intelligence race with China that the country can't afford to lose, industry leaders told lawmakers at a House hearing on Wednesday. 'We need energy in all forms,' said Eric...
Skype is shutting down after two decades on May 5th, notes the Washington Post. But the bigger problem for retired attorney Karen Griffin is that Microsoft won't refund the money they paid into a Skype account for cheap international phone calls: 'They're no longer offering...
'A modern free society has an obligation to offer electronic tax filing that respects user freedom,' says a Free Software Foundation blog post, 'and the United States is not excluded from this responsibility.' 'Governments, and/or the companies that they partner with, are...
Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots Comment AI's appetite for power is exploding. Hyperscalers have only just begun to adopt Nvidia's 120 kW-per-rack systems, and the GPU giant is already charting a course toward...
Smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and various other electronics will be exempt from U.S. President Trump's tariffs, reports CNN, 'according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday.' And several other products also received an exemption...
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A former Facebook employee/whistleblower alleges Meta's AI model Lllama was used to help DeepSeek. The whistleblower — former Facebook director of global policy Sarah Wynn-Williams — testified before U.S. Senators on Wednesday. CBS News found this earlier response from Meta:...
Terrible color accuracy ruins what is an otherwise great budget Windows laptop.
The Smart Oven Air Fryer Compact has truly intelligent presets, and a lot of functionality in a wee device. But I wonder about the airflow.
In case you missed it, Season 7 of Black Mirror just hit Netflix. Although the last couple seasons have contained far more misses than hits for me (in my opinion, the Season 3 episode 'Shut Up and Dance' is the peak of the series as a whole, and it's almost ten years old!),...
The next time you cook pasta, don't bother with a kitchen timer, just hit play on one of these playlists—each one is precisely timed to match the cook time of a particular variety of pasta. The 'Playlist Timer' tool was created by Publicis Italy and is a collaboration...
I have to admit, as an academic who is frequently frustrated by predatory journals as well as by the inability to extricate myself from some journal and conference mailing lists, I thoroughly resonate with the paper 'Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List,' which I can only...
No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks Analysis Global datacenter electricity use is set to more than double by 2030 - slightly surpassing Japan's total consumption - with AI named as the biggest driver.…
I've watched this video countless times now, and it still hasn't stopped making me laugh. When two dudes at a gas station try to read a moving digital sign, they first read the words 'cold bee' out loud. One of the guys says 'cold bee!? — Read the rest The post Watch two...
Abstract of a paper on NBER: There is much disagreement about the extent to which financial incentives motivate study participants. We elicit preferences for being paid for completing a survey, including a one-in-twenty chance of winning a $100 electronic gift card, a...
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