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Monday April 21, 2025. 02:31 PM
Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it's not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up to external data, tools, or APIs. The trouble is, there's no standard way to do that - ...
Technics’ latest flagship buds pack even better sound in a slimmer, more stylish package.
In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. A University of Virginia academic journal says the book 'appraises the past and present' of information technology while issuing 'a warning about its future.' And...
This tricked out walking pad has the highest incline capability I’ve seen on the market.
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Cosm's cushy venues provide a fully immersive experience that helps sports fans feel like they're really at the game—with all the thrills, the shouting, and even the hot dogs.
Chad Anderson is the founder/managing partner of the early-stage VC Space Capital (and an investor in SpaceX, along with dozens of other space companies). Space Capital produces quarterly reports on the space economy, and he says today, unlike 2021, 'the froth is gone. But...
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican said Monday. The pontiff, who was Bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, became pope in 2013 after his predecessor Benedict XVI resigned. On February 14, the Pope was admitted to hospital for bronchitis treatment....
Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong? Who, Me? Monday mornings are a nasty time of week that can be redeemed by two things: bantering about weekend sporting results, and reading another edition of 'Who, Me?' – The Register's weekly column...
With more companies requiring workers to return to an office five days a week, 'Anxiety is rising for some of the millions of people who identify as neurodivergent,' writes the Washington Post. They raise the possibility that 'strict office mandates have the potential to...
While college applicants are often required to write a personal essay for their applications, political scientist/author/academic Yascha Mounk argues that's 'a deeply unfair way to select students for top colleges, one that is much more biased against the poor than...
Slashdot reader yeokm1 is the Singapore-based embedded security researcher whose side projects include installing Linux on a 1993 PC and building a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS. He's now sharing his latest project — installing Llama 2 on DOS: Conventional wisdom states that...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolution in aviation technology ...
Sunday April 20, 2025. 11:55 PM
For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole,' reports Science News — 'one with no star orbiting it.' It's 'the only one so far,' says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In 2022, Sahu and...
On top of that, Trump's increased federal spending almost completely negates $150B in cuts Comment Elon Musk's Trump-blessed DOGE unit has made a lot of noise and a lot of headlines for its heavy-handed hatchet tactics within supposedly bloated governmental organizations.…
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
There was excitement when biotech company Collosal announced genetically modified grey wolves (first hailed as a 'de-extinction' of the Dire wolf species after several millennia). 'But bioethicists and conservationists are expressing unease with the kind of scientific...
TechCrunch looks at Mechanize, an ambitious new startup 'whose founder — and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch — is being skewered on X...' Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu....
'Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America...' reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America 'began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million colonies collapsed,...
'Using electrochemistry, University of Oregon researchers have developed a way to make iron metal for steel production without burning fossil fuels...' the University of Oregon wrote last year. 'Decarbonizing this step would do roughly as much to reduce greenhouse gas...
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