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Sunday December 15, 2024. 05:34 AM
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Scientist have unlocked the secret to a bacteria dubbed 'Conan the Bacterium' which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most radiant-resistant life-form. Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses...
America's 1994 'Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act' (or CALEA) created the security hole that helped enable a massive telecomm breach. But now America's FBI 'is falling back on the same warmed-over, bad advice about encryption that it has trotted out for...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge: Waymo's driverless vehicles can detect emergency vehicles, know how to respond to hand signals for traffic cops, and can be disabled manually when something goes wrong, according to an independent review of the company's ...
Saturday December 14, 2024. 11:34 PM
The Washington Post reports: Years before the internet was created and the first smartphones buzzed to life, an educational platform called PLATO offered a glimpse of the digital world to come. Launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [UIUC], it was ...
'Single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer-meet-keyboard device with better specifications...' reports TechCrunch. They call the new $90 Raspberry Pi 500 'not as intimidating' because 'when you look at the Raspberry Pi 500, you can't see...
'Proposals for a tunnel connecting the U.K. to the U.S. underneath the Atlantic Ocean have resurfaced,' reports Newsweek, 'but with a price tag of almost $20 trillion, the project is a big ask.' With the two global cities being over 3,000 miles apart, construction would take ...
The U.S. wants to limit China's access to advanced AI chips, reports the Wall Street Journal, with new rules to restrict sales in parts of the world. 'The rules are aimed at China, but they threaten to create conflict between the U.S. and nations that may not want their...
America's telecom-regulating Federal Communications Commission 'has opened up the entire 6 GHz frequency band to very low-power devices,' reports the Register, 'alongside other unlicensed applications such as Wi-Fi kits.' The FCC said it has adopted extra rules to allow very ...
Gather around the fire for another retelling of computer networking history Systems Approach A few weeks ago I stumbled onto an article titled 'Traceroute isn’t real,' which was reasonably entertaining while also not quite right in places.…
'The Chinese government has long subsidized carmakers with the goal of becoming a major auto exporter,' notes the New York Times. But this week they reported on dozens of dealerships around Mexico that are now selling China-made electric vehicles, saying it could be 'a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple will begin making AirPods in India for the first time early next year, reports Bloomberg. Foxconn will make the wireless earphones at a factory near Hyderabad in Telangana state, beginning around Q1 2025. The factory...
NASA believes Ingenuity's navigation system was responsible for its crash on the surface of Mars. Engineers determined that the helicopter's navigation system struggled to track features over smooth terrain, leading to a hard landing and structural failure. Universe Today...
This trackable wallet is compact and has a trigger for quickly finding the right card.
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: As we close out 2024, we Linux enthusiasts are once again looking ahead to what the future holds. While Linux has long been the unsung hero of technology, powering servers, supercomputers, and the cloud, it's also a dominant force...
Two regions in the left hemisphere of the brain, which are crucial for language, are different in people who are good at reading and are likely to be shaped by the habit.
Don't uninstall those rarely used apps. Just securely stash them in the cloud until the next time you need them, and free up space on your phone in the meantime.
Final curtain call for weird wingman The Microsoft axman just claimed another victim. Less than three years after it appeared in the Windows Insider Dev Channel, the Suggested Actions feature is being deprecated.…
In the West, where herds of thousands of cattle are common, researchers are seeing cases rise at poultry and dairy operations. More than 50 workers have contracted the virus.
Plus: The US indicts North Koreans in fake IT worker scheme, file-sharing firm Cleo warns customers to patch a vulnerability amid live attacks, and more.
Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 have some added hearing-aid capabilities. How well do they work in practice? I asked my grandmother, who is in her eighties, to try them for a week.
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