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Monday December 23, 2024. 09:34 AM
Alphabet's Waymo robotaxis are providing 'hundreds of thousands of driverless rides each month,' reports the Washington Post. But as the robotaxi service expands in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin, some passengers 'have found that traveling by robotaxi can...
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Babbel gives you access to 14 languages with on-demand lessons for just $129.97—through December 31. The pressure of traditional language classes can be overwhelming for those who dislike speaking English in public. Babbel offers the...
TL;DR: Save 65% on this refurbished MacBook Pro and pay only $350 instead of $999—only while supplies last. Loyal PC users, hear us out. We know you’re a die-hard fan, but don’t you ever wonder if Mac users are right about MacBooks being better? If you’ve always...
Saturday France connected a new nuclear reactor to its grid 'for the first time in a quarter century...' reports Bloomberg, 'adding low-carbon electricity supply at a time when a sputtering economy has made demand sluggish.' The Flamanville-3 reactor — the first such...
'Drones collided, fell from the sky and hit a little boy after 'technical difficulties' during a holiday show...' reports the Orlando Sentinel. They note that a press release from the city said the 8 p.m. show was then cancelled: The company behind the drones, Sky Elements,...
It's not who owns AI training data. The Boston Review asks who owns its output? In a conversation with Microsoft's Copilot, I invited the AI to speculate what kind of thing it might write if it were not confined to answering human prompts. Among its answers was this response ...
Sunday December 22, 2024. 10:47 PM
A demonstration 'race' between a (human) F1 race car driver Daniil Kvyat and an autonomous vehicle was just staged by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League. Describing the league and the 'man vs. machine' showdown, Ars Technica writes, 'Say goodbye to the human driver and...
Long-time Slashdot AmiMoJo quotes this report from EcoWatch: Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain's power prices below zero. Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set ...
Engadget reports: Apple is developing a smart doorbell and lock system that would use Face ID to unlock the door for known residents, Mark Gurman reports in the Power On newsletter. The face-scanning doorbell would connect to a smart deadbolt, which could include existing...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Health magazine: 'Most people think of aging as occurring gradually, constantly, and linearly,' senior study author Michael Snyder, PhD, a professor of genetics and director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at...
A series of drone sightings over U.S. military bases 'has renewed concerns that the U.S. doesn't have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could potentially pose a national security threat,' reports CNN: 'We're one year past Langley...
The Associated Press reports that in Albania (population: 2,402,113), 'children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according to domestic researchers.' But 'Albania's prime minister said Saturday the government will shut down the video service TikTok...
It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want Opinion Last year, I wrote a piece here on El Reg about being murdered by ChatGPT as an illustration of the potential harms through the misuse of large language models and other forms of AI.…
'Sixty-six million years ago, all dinosaurs (except for birds) were wiped from the face of the Earth...' writes Gizmodo. 'What's indisputable about this pivotal moment in Earth's history is that a 6.2 to 9.3-mile-wide (10 to 15-kilometer) asteroid struck what is now...
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I spotted the 8TB Samsung T5 EVO portable SSD for just $400 right now because that’s, by far, the best discount I’ve ever seen for it. (Before that, its best price was $430, so it’s quite the drop ahead of the holidays.) We reviewed...
We expect USB-C cables to perform a specific task: transferring either data or files between devices. We give little more thought to the matter, but malicious USB-C cables can do much more than what we expect. These cables hide malicious hardware that can intercept data,...
It’s getting late for online gift buying with the holidays imminent. If you’ve missed those shipping deadlines, you have one last resort: gift cards. Yes, yes, I know, they’re not as personal. But they’re better than being empty-handed when your friend or family...
L'Oréal's first professional hair dryer combines infrared light, wind, and heat to drastically reduce your drying time.
The Washington Post visits one of over 100 tide-tracking stations around the U.S. — Georgia's Fort Pulaski tide gauge: Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest rates in the country, according to a Washington Post...
Just because you use Chrome doesn’t mean you have to use Google. Learn how to invite Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, or even ChatGPT into your omnibox.
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