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Sunday August 31, 2025. 02:31 AM
Thousands of redheads from around the world gathered this weekend in Tilburg in the Netherlands, hosting the 2025 Redhead Days festival celebrating those with the upgraded MC1R gene. Anyone may attend, though the group photo is for 'natural' redheads only. — Read the rest ...
At the moment, the Spotify exodus of 2025 is a trickle rather than a flood, writes the Guardian, citing the departure of five notable bands 'liked in indie circles,' but not 'the sorts to rack up billions of listens.' 'Still, it feels significant if only because, well, this...
Finland began using the swastika in its Air Force insignia years before the Nazis appropriated the symbol, and continued to use it after Hitler's regime was ashes. It dropped the swastika from its Air Force logo in 2020, but after joining NATO in 2023, things got a bit...
Intel amended its deal with the U.S. Department of Commerce 'to remove earlier project milestones,' reports Reuters, 'and received about $5.7 billion in cash sooner than planned.' 'The move will give Intel more flexibility over the funds.' The amended agreement, which...
Saturday August 30, 2025. 11:48 PM
A warehouse worker's habit of making Michael Jackson noises—'hee hee' and 'woo' and what have you—got him fired from his warehouse job in Manchester. Or perhaps it was because he was accused of making racist monkey noises at a black colleague. — Read the rest The post...
After Will Smith uploaded a video of an adoring crowd, blogger Andy Baio 'conducted a detailed analysis that suggests Will Smith's team might have used AI to turn photos from his recent concerts into videos,' writes BGR. But there's more to the story: Google recently ran an...
TL;DR: Never lose your files again with a lifetime subscription of Koofr Cloud Storage for just $199.99 (Reg. $810.00). A few years ago, I lost everything. Not everything, everything, but all the files on my computer and phone. Some glitch when moving my files from a family...
They offer 'a self-sustaining power solution for marine regions,' according to a newly published 41-page review after 'pioneering use in wave energy harvesting in 2014'. Ten years later, researchers have developed several structures for these 'triboelectric nanogenerators'...
When it comes to nuclear fusion energy, 'How do we advance fusion as fast as possible?' asks the CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems. They've just raised $863 million from Nvidia, Google, the BIll Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and nearly two dozen more investors, ...
Tennessee whiskey isn't so popular in Toronto right now. The company that makes Jack Daniels says that sales are down 62 percent in Canada, the result of President Trump's threats, trade war and and tariffs. Brown-Forman, which also makes Woodford Reserve bourbon, noted...
By exploiting two-color beams, researchers 'can generate ordered chains and lattices,' reports ScienceDaily, 'with tunable topology — potentially revolutionizing data storage, communications, and photonic processing.' An internationally joint research group between Singapore...
They were extinct in the Netherlands in the early 19th century. But in 1988 beavers were reintroduced to the region, and now there's over 7,000, reports the Guardian. But unfortunately... Beavers are increasingly digging burrows and tunnels under roads, railways and — even...
Funny videos of Taco Bell's hapless AI drive-through system have made the restaurant chain reconsider its use of the technology. One customer managed to put in an order for 18,000 cups of water, a perfectly wet example of how the system slows and snarls human workers and...
Remember those Harvard dropouts who built smart glasses for covert facial recognition — and then raised $1 million to develop AI-powered glasses to continuously listen to conversations and display its insights? 'People Are REALLY Mad,' writes Futurism, noting that some social...
TL;DR: You ever stop and realize how weird it is that we 'rent' the internet? Like, you build a whole website—sweat over the design, write pages of clever copy—and then pay monthly just to keep it online? Yeah, that's what finally made me ditch my old host and...
'From a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world's biggest companies — this is the story of Python,' says the description of a new 84-minute documentary. Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: It traces Python all the way back to its origins in Amsterdam...
Do your future self a favor and back up all your precious photos, messages, and files before disaster strikes.
Wine has released version 10.14 of its popular compatibility layer which makes it easy to run Windows applications on Linux. The update includes an upgraded vkd3d library, now at version 1.17, an updated Mono engine at version 10.2.0, IPv6 ping support, Gitlab CI running on...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: After bringing 4G and 5G connectivity to the Underground, London's public transport authority has started scolding noisy passengers who subject everyone to music and calls blasting out of their phones. A new poster campaign ...
A study reveals that extreme heat accelerates biological aging even more than smoking or drinking.
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