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Monday February 17, 2025. 02:09 AM
The Cleveland Review of Books ponders a new 697-page hardcover collection of American poet/author Kevin Killian's.... reviews from Amazon. (Over 2,000 of 'em — written over the course of 16 years.) In 2012, he wrote three substantial paragraphs about the culinary perfection...
TL;DR: Through February 23, you can outfit your PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office 2021 for only $54.97 (reg. $438). Has your PC performed, well, a little more slowly than usual? It might be because you have 30+ Chrome tabs open. — Read the rest The post Finally, th...
PLUS: Pacific islands targeted by Chinese APT; China’s new rocket soars; DeepSeek puts Korea in a pickle; and more Asia In Brief The head of Fujitsu’s North American operations has warned that the Trump administration’s tariff plans will be bad for business.…
I came across an interactive NASA tool called Solar System Simulator. On it, you can view objects in our solar system from different viewpoints and moments in time. Fill out each drop down menu (date, field of view, ect,) and then click run simulator. — Read the rest The...
Nicholas Carr wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. But his new book looks at how social media and digital communication technologies 'are changing us individually and collectively,' writes the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book's title?...
The 6.14-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing; the announcement, for unknown reasons, went only to the linux-btrfs list. So the first few weeks of the 6.14 release development were smaller-than-usual, but rc3 is actually right in line with normal releases at this point....
Sunday February 16, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Turn your downtime into self-growth with Headway Premium—lifetime access to bite-sized insights from the world's best nonfiction books is just $47.99 (reg. $299.95) through March 2. Ever found yourself three hours deep in a Wikipedia rabbit hole about obscure histori...
'A robotic lander from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is now in orbit around the Moon,' reports Spaceflight Now, 'and going through its final preparations to land in the coming weeks.' Its arrival comes nearly a month after the spacecraft launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket...
gwolf (Slashdot reader #26,339) writes: On Friday, February 14, Libertarian Argentinian president, Javier Milei, promoted the just-created $LIBRA cryptocoin, created by the Viva la libertad project, strongly aligned with his political party, La Libertad Avanza. Milei...
El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our ...
'What if time is not as fixed as we thought?' That's the question raised in an announcement from the University of Surrey. 'Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction — from past to future — time could flow forward or backward due to processes taking place at the...
Christie's auction house notes that an AI-generated 'portrait' of an 18th-century French gentleman recently sold for $432,500. (One member of the Paris-based collective behind the work says 'we found that portraits provided the best way to illustrate our point, which is that ...
The passage of time is hard on computer parts. Sometimes it’s about how much they wear down over time; other times, it’s the fact that older parts get set aside and forgotten, only to be left behind by time. For instance, it may seem like PCIe 4.0 just arrived to...
'Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes...' writes the tech news site Hot Hardware. But the site adds that newly unsealed court documents 'reveal that Meta allegedly used a minimum of 81.7TB of illegally...
TL;DR: Charge your phone, tablet, and laptop all at once with the 100W Omega USB-C GaN Charger for $59.99, a small and powerful power bank. No outlet? No problem. Whether you're in a crowded cafe or on a long public transit commute you can use the compact 100W Omega USB-C GaN...
Yahoo Finance shares an interesting prediction. Amazon has an 'under-the-radar robot push' that 'could boost its profit margins big-time, Morgan Stanley managing director Brian Nowak said.' Nowak said Amazon has quietly developed six significant next-generation fulfillment...
The Pro Keys 2 is a solid iPad keyboard case offering great protection for your tablet. However, there are quite a few caveats along the way.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: you can never have enough storage space. Extra SSDs are useful for so many things. And right now, you can snag this large-capacity pocket-sized portable SSD at a phenomenal price. The Samsung T7 SSD normally retails for $270...
According to the Trans Legislation Tracker (TLT), 2024 was the fifth year in a row to break records for the total number of anti-trans bills considered across the United States in a given calendar year. The Trans Legislation Tracker website states that their research has...
Revenge of the Sith might be my favorite Star Wars movie (sue me), but even I can admit that the prequels dragged. Most of that is thanks to the frankly absurd quantity of 'political' scenes, which are actually less intrigue and more characters you don't care about dropping...
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