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Sunday December 22, 2024. 09:34 AM
'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...
TL;DR: Save 32% on this smart voice recorder that captures meetings and writes detailed summaries. Ever wish you could clone yourself so you could pay attention to that soul-crushing meeting without actually having to be there for it? Well, this AI audio recorder is the next...
'Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth,' writes Gizmodo. And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager's signals on a 1950s-era telescope... The ...
ASUS has introduced the NUC 14 Pro AI, a mini PC that incorporates Intel Core Ultra processors (Series 2) and Microsoft’s Copilot+ AI assistant. Designed to meet the demands of business, industrial, and entertainment applications, this compact device delivers enhanced AI...
Big Lots, the former trash palace that sold a bit of everything on its way to selling … patio furniture and nylon bedding? … is reportedly preparing to go out of business. A deal to sell itself to a private equity group didn't work out, and now the entire chain—900...
On Thursday New Jersey lawmakers passed a resolution 'calling on the federal government to conduct a 'rigorous and ongoing' investigation into the drone sightings in the state,' reports the Associated Press: Meanwhile, federal and local authorities are warning against...
Zeera's MacForge is an aluminum case for the new Mac Mini that makes it look like a tiny Mac Pro. [via Notebookcheck] The ZEERA MacForge is designed as a nod to Apple's iconic Mac Pro, blending powerful functionality with sleek aesthetics. — Read the rest The post Mac Pr...
Nature magazine reports that 'A study that stoked enthusiasm for the now-disproven idea that a cheap malaria drug can treat COVID-19 has been retracted — more than four-and-a-half years after it was published.' Researchers had critiqued the controversial paper many times,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft's popular VS Code editor. Until now, most...
Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg announces that the curl project will be dropping hyper, its experimental HTTP backend written in Rust, due to lack of developer interest. While the experiment itself is deemed a failure, I think we learned from it and improved curl in the...
'California's population grew this year by nearly a quarter of a million residents,' reports the Los Angeles Daily News, 'closing in on record-high population levels the Golden State reached before the pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.' Although 'Data...
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