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Sunday March 2, 2025. 11:12 PM
Earth's core 'burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power,' the New Yorker reminds us — enough to 'satisfy the entire world's energy needs' with a power source that's carbon-free, ubiquitous — and unlimited. (Besides running 24 hours a day, one of geothermal...
TL;DR: Declutter your desk and boost productivity with this Aluminum Monitor Riser with 8-Port Docking Hub—now just $129.99 (reg. $199.99) with code POWER20 through March 30. Honestly, most of our desk setups could use an upgrade. If you're still hunching over your laptop...
About two weeks ago, there was a bit of confusion about the system requirements for Windows 11 24H2, because Intel’s 8th Gen, 9th Gen, and 10th Gen processors had disappeared from the list of supported hardware. This seemed rather drastic, even by Windows 11 standards. I skip...
The 6.14-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'Nothing looks particularly big or worrisome'.
'Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the world's simplest materials,' reports the Washington Post — ice. When electricity is cheap, the batteries freeze water. When energy costs go up,...
A 'decision science partner' at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists: Researchers have struggled for decades to develop...
Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and...
How confident are we about the safety of commercial space tourism? Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: It's one thing for Microsoft to boast that they dare to use Outlook instead of Gmail. But it took a whole other level of commitment for Jeff Bezos to join his brother...
One of my tech dilemmas is that I’ve somehow accumulated a disparate group of laptops with integrated GPUs. That means they’re great to write on but when it comes to graphics processing power — without using expletives — let’s just say they can’t play any...
Can a new 3D-printing technique shorten 3D printing times to just seconds? A team of researchers in Europe has modified Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, which can 'create entire objects in one shot by shining light patterns into liquid resin,' according to the...
The Honor UI Agent—powered by Google’s Gemini 2 model—gives a glimpse of artificial intelligence agents on Android.
Petawatt lasers have already allowed scientists to 'manipulate materials in new ways, emulate the conditions inside planets, and even split atoms,' reports Science magazine. 'Now, accelerator physicists have matched that feat, producing petawatt pulses of electrons that...
The more storage, the better, and this locker looks as good as it performs.
Not much is new with Xiaomi's latest flagship phones, but I still love the quad-lens camera on the Ultra.
This high-end modern cassette player is better than vintage for tape heads.
Once upon a time, you could assume you were pretty safe on the internet, so long as you were careful. But that’s changed. Through no fault of your own, your data can leak, your passwords can become compromised, and you can more easily fall prey to malware. In 2025, you...
Some eager product designers have replaced the toaster’s familiar buttons, levers, and dials with screens and automated software. The results are rather stale.
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.
A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users' systems 'into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads,' writes The Hacker News. Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it enabled 'coordinated,...
At Mobile World Congress 2025, the company also teased a solar-powered laptop and an accessory that adds two extra screens to your portable PC.
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