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Sunday January 26, 2025. 06:34 PM
The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the state to offer at least one computer science course to its students. 'This bill aligns Michigan with a majority of the country,' according to the state's announcement, which says the bill 'advances...
Amid the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel development cycle, Phoronix spotted a pull request for ACPI updates which 'will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems.' Wikipedia defines ACPI as 'an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and...
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shared this report from the Guardian: More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a 'milestone' for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU's...
Stir with it, flip with it, cook with it—a Danish kitchenware studio has reinvented man’s OG tool.
Whether you’re worried about a new iPhone or the Apple smartphone you’ve had for ages, activating Stolen Device Protection can limit what thieves can access.
A series from photographer Stefan Falke captures iconic views of New York City's boroughs both coming and going.
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: 'Every US intelligence agency still unanimously maintains that Covid-19 was not developed as a biological weapon,' CNN reported today. But what about the possibility of an accidental leak (rather than Covid-19 originating in wild animal...
When the cosmetics brand decided to make a Bluetooth speaker, it didn’t know how hard it would be to make it sustainably. The next challenge: Will anyone actually buy it?
July saw the news that Meta had launched a powerful open-source AI model, Llama 3.1. But the Free Software Foundation evaluated Llama 3.1's license agreement, and announced this week that 'this is not a free software license and you should not use it, nor any software...
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TL;DR: Get a 1minAI lifetime subscription for $99.99 before codes sell out—less than 50 are left in stock. Rumor has it that ChatGPT-5 will be released this year and be more powerful than ever before, but why wait? An even better tool combines all of the top AI models into ...
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
Friday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine). Gates remembers forming...
A plan to keep TikTok available in the U.S. 'involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors,' reports NPR, 'to effectively take control of the app's global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks...' '[P]otential...
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux 'could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,' according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. It's the code that processes packets of network traffic,...
Saturday January 25, 2025. 11:34 PM
Founded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority 'for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system,' reports USA Today. Unfortunately, 'What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered...
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps' further development. The trio is part of...
CleanTechnicareports that last year Americans 'bought 37% more air source heat pumps than the next most popular heating appliance — gas furnaces.' And Americans bought 21% more heat pumps than they did in 2023. Canary Media is quick to point out that in many homes, more than...
ZDNET's senior editor sees an 'overwhelmingly negative' response to Microsoft's surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, 'they made it a 30% price increase' — going...
2021: 'Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup' 2025: Canoo 'Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas' 'Its production volumes paled in comparison to Canoo's rate of cash burn, which was substantial, with net losses in 2023 totaling just over $300 million...' ...
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