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Monday October 7, 2024. 07:35 AM
Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy Desktop Tourism Across the 30 years I've used laptop PCs, they've always made me anxious about battery life. Dell's XPS 13 9345 Copilot+ PC powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite X is the first...
800,000 tons of rock have been excavated from a South Dakota research facility — part of a multi-year process 'to help answer some of physics' biggest questions,' writes America's Energy Department. 'The caverns they excavated will hold a massive particle detector and...
“Ho, hum,” I thought in response to the release of the OpenAI o1 models. “Yet another stochastic parrot.” I was wrong. In fact, I tried the o1-preview model on one of my standard programming tasks, and found it to be surprisingly good. The recently released ChatGPT...
Long-time Slashdot reader Bismillah writes: Python New Zealand has gone through some rough times lately, with its then-treasurer stealing money from the society.. Things were looking really serious for a while, with Python NZ looking at being liquidated due to the theft of...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia's public broadcaster ABC: Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers' houses — to...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Redox OS 0.9.0 News: Redox begins RISC-V port, Linux Mint polishes the user interface, Qubes certifies NitroPad v56 laptop Tips and tricks: Unified package management...
TL;DR: You'll never miss a project deadline when you have Microsoft Project 2021, now less than $20 for life through October 27! As much as we love how hilarious Michael Scott is, we know for a fact we'd hate to be him. — Read the rest The post Want to be a better project...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Hundreds of Americans have been arrested after being connected to a crime by facial recognition software, a Washington Post investigation has found, but many never know it because police seldom disclose their...
Sunday October 6, 2024. 11:58 PM
Amazon launched 'cashierless checkout' stores In 2018, reports CNBC — but by 2020 it was licensing the 'Just Walk Out' technology to other stores in airports, hospitals, and stadiums. In April, Amazon announced it was removing cashierless checkout from its U.S. Fresh stores...
TL;DR: Learn something every time you stream Curiosity Stream's exclusive, original documentaries and series, now $159.97 (reg. $399) through October 27! Remember when your mom told you that you couldn't learn anything from watching TV? Well, she may have been right in the pa...
This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25 Analysis Cisco reportedly plans to throw its weight behind CoreWeave in a deal that would boost its valuation to $23 billion and potentially cement the network giant's place in the rent-a-GPU outfit's cloud.…
'Pine64 has confirmed that its open-source e-ink tablet is returning,' reports the blog OMG Ubuntu: The [10.1-inch e-ink display] PineNote was announced in 2021, building on the success of its non-SBC devices like the PinePhone (and later Pro model), the PineTab, and...
The British Post Office scandal 'was first exposed by Computer Weekly in 2009, revealing the stories of seven subpostmasters and the problems they suffered due to Horizon accounting software,' remembers Computer Weekly, 'which led to the most widespread miscarriage of...
'Scientists can't agree on the exact rate of expansion of the universe, dictated by the Hubble constant,' a new article at Space.com reminds us: The rate can be measured starting from the local (and therefore recent) universe, then going farther back in time — or, it can be...
El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do Hands on Meta has been influential in driving the development of open language models with its Llama family, but up until now, the only way to interact with them has been through...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget: Three new theft protection features that Google announced earlier this year have reportedly started rolling out on Android. The tools — Theft Detection Lock, Offline Device Lock and Remote Lock — are aimed at giving users...
TL;DR: These 1080p HD night-vision binoculars are perfect for stargazing and spotting nighttime wildlife, with a 2.8' screen and built-in recording for $69.99 (reg. $129). Stargazing is already magical, but imagine what you could see with a bit of extra help. — Read the rest...
He's the long-time Slashdot reader who installed Linux on a 1993 PC — and then installed a 1994 version of MS-DOS on a modern Thinkpad X13. (And somewhere along the way, he even built a ChatGPT client for DOS...) But in a new blog post, yeokm1 reveals 'I recently built myself...
The new hyper hybrid hits 1,258 bhp, is limited to 217 mph, has DRS and an airbrake, and can come to a halt from 124 mph in just 100 meters. Yet none of this is the car’s real party piece.
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: Brazil's Supreme Court said on Friday that lawyers representing social media platform X did not pay pending fines to the proper bank, postponing its decision on whether to allow the tech firm to resume services in Brazil....
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