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Sunday March 9, 2025. 07:34 PM
Slashdot covered the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in 2008 and 2010 — though it's been running since 1983. Entrants competed to write the worst-possible first sentence for a novel, in a contest started by English professor Scott E. Rice at San Jose State University (which...
Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI Meta says it has managed to reduce the CPU cycles of its top services by 20 percent through its Strobelight profiling orchestration suite, which relies on the open source eBPF project.…
Damaged corneas were repaired at a Harvard teaching hospital in a unique clinical trial, reports New Atlas: Since it's on the frontline of potential hazards from the outside world, the cornea features a population of limbal epithelial stem cells, which repair minor damage to ...
Slashdot reader databasecowgirl writes: The Times is reporting an interesting study published in Science in which mice demonstrated doing first aid. In the replicated study, an anaesthetised mouse is exposed to another mouse who recognises the distress and clears airway to...
'McDonald's is giving its 43,000 restaurants a technology makeover,' reports the Wall Street Journal, including AI-enabled drive-throughs and AI-powered tools for managers — as well as internet-connected kitchen equipment. 'Technology solutions will alleviate the stress....'...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to top AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for just $39.99 — no monthly fees, just unlimited creativity. AI tools are awesome until you check your bank statement and realize you're paying for five different subscriptions to generate text,...
The 6.6.82 stable kernel has been released. 'All i386 users of the 6.6 kernel series must upgrade (as they skipped the last release.) All other arches can skip this one as it should not affect them.'
A blog post from the Stanford University School of Medicine attempts to answer the question: What's the deal with the gut-brain connection? It affects your mood, your sleep, even your motivation to exercise. There's convincing evidence that it's the starting point for...
How do you know that the color red I see is the same color red you see?Although it's a classic marijuana-fueled question that is easy to dismiss, comparing the subjective experience of 'red' raises questions about the nature of consciousness for philosophers,...
Watch a bunch of adorable geese react to their human friend pretending to faint. My only personal experience with these creatures has been being chased by seemingly bloodthirsty geese on multiple occasions. I didn't know that geese could express so much care and concern for...
TCL’s upgraded 6 Series skips the brightness blast for impressively balanced performance.
Screenshot from YouTube The post World's hairiest-faced man shares his journey with hypertrichosis appeared first on Boing Boing.
In this cool video, we see a timelapse of a Dragon Fruit Cactus growing over the course of 1.5 years. The video actually starts off with a dragon fruit, which is then sliced and opened up. A few tiny seeds are removed from the fruit and placed in a petri dish. — Read the...
This new wide-plate straightening iron has only one temperature setting, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
When a branch was cut off this tree, a stream of water began shooting out from the fresh cut. The guy talking in the video is correct—I've never seen this before. This water looks extra refreshing to me, and I'm curious if water from the inside of a tree like this is safe...
I recently got a Mountrax Foot Massager in the mail, and was delighted when it came with a fun bonus: a gold paint pen that allows users to draw all over the surface of the machine to customize it. If you know an artist with sore feet, then this massager makes the perfect...
From comforters to sheets, pillows, and bed frames, here’s how to keep your bed in tip-top shape.
By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of mathematical unknowability.
Last week Google urged the U.S. government not to break up the company — but apparently, it didn't work. In a new filing Friday, America's Justice Department 'reiterated its November proposal that Google be forced to sell its Chrome web browser,' reports the Washington Post, ...
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