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Saturday October 4, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Refurbished 13″ 3.1GHz i5 MacBook Pro dropped to $279.97 (reg. $1,499), but only until October 12 at 11:59 p.m. PT. This refurbished Apple MacBook Pro 13″ with Touchbar from 2017 in Space Gray just pulled off a Houdini-level escape from the overpriced aisle. —...
The Greater Manchester Police force has 12,677 employees. But they've now suspended work-from-home privileges, reports the BBC, 'following an investigation into so-called 'key-jamming', which can allow people to falsely appear to be working. 'Twenty-six police officers,...
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today (EDT), the Free Software Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary with an online and in-person event. 'We will broadcast the talks and workshops via a fully free software livestream on fsf.org/live,' according to the FSF's official 'FSF40...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Women tend to live longer than men. There are traditional explanations: Men smoke more. They drink more. They tend to engage in riskier behavior. But the fact that this lifespan gap holds true regardless of...
A 10-foot statue of legendary rock star Tina Turner was unveiled last week in Brownsville, her rural Tennessee hometown, paid for by 'about 50 donors' with $150,000 coming from the Ford Motor Co. alone. Locals and fans seem displeased by the results. — Read the rest The...
theodp writes: CBS News has a TL;DR video report, but Jeremy Stern's earlier epic Class Dismissed [at Collosus.com] offers a deep dive into Alpha School, 'the teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas, where students have been testing in the top 0.1%...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: CBS News has a TL;DR video report, but Jeremy Stern's earlier epic Class Dismissed [at Collosus.com] offers a deep dive into Alpha School, 'the teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas, where students have been...
Amazon Prime Day is back, starting on October 7, but we’ve already found good deals on WIRED-approved gear.
The food delivery robots that arrived in Atlanta in June 'are not our friends,' argues a headline at CNN. The four-wheeled Serve Robotics machines 'get confused at crosswalks. They move with the speed and caution of a first-time driver, stilted and shy, until they suddenly...
'A small number of researchers are making real progress trying to create computers out of living cells,' reports the BBC: Among those leading the way are a group of scientists in Switzerland, who I went to meet. One day, they hope we could see data centres full of 'living'...
TL;DR: Want to learn Korean, Spanish, French, or all three? Rosetta Stone's lifetime subscription gives you access to 25 languages for just $148.99 (reg. $399) during Deal Days—use code LANGO to save. Confession: I still haven't watched season two of Squid Game. — Read the...
Amazon will be adding facial recognition to its camera-equipped Ring doorbells for the first time in December, according to the Washington Post. 'While the feature will be optional for Ring device owners, privacy advocates say it's unfair that wherever the technology is in...
Dame Patricia Routledge, most famous for her performance as snobby suburban housewife Hyacinth Bucket in BBC sitcom Keeping up Appearances, is dead at 96. She would surely have appreciated the headline: one of the best running jokes in the show was Hyacinth's insistence her...
Our team evaluated a ton of toiletry bags to find the best storage, organization, and design options for all your essentials.
Carmaker confirms screen hijack, says probe underway Conference-room screens at Ford's Dearborn HQ were briefly hijacked on Thursday to display a protest image in an apparent swipe at the carmaker's return-to-office policy.…
Americans are paying more for electricity—and rates will keep rising. But after a period of pain, rates should level off as the benefits of a shift away from fossil fuels begin to be felt.
Plus: China sentences scam bosses to death, Europe is ramping up its plans to build a “drone wall” to protect against Russian airspace violations, and more.
Plus: Whoop lets you order blood tests, Arlo refreshes its security camera lineup, and Roland unveils a new analog drum machine.
Having reportedly shelved work on a cheaper Vision Pro, Apple is apparently pivoting its focus to smart glasses—and hoping it's not too late.
AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs Feature Shubh Kumar graduated from IIT Patna, one of India's famed Institutes of Technology – universities that attract millions of applicants but admit only 18,000 undergraduates.…
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