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Sunday January 12, 2025. 07:56 PM
'This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials,' reports Quanta magazine. 'Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The third shreds it completely....' After four years...
One of my favorite trends in desktop PC design for the last couple of years has been what we call “The War on Cables,” wherein all the interior power and data cables are hidden on the backside of a case. It makes a desktop look oh-so-clean, and that’s great when PC...
As an ecological disaster devastated two coastal California cities, more than 7,500 firefighters pushed back against the wildfires. 900 of them are inmates, reports NPR. That's about 12%: California is one of more than a dozen states that operates conservation camps,...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is always a massive event that sees dozens of laptops announced, but CES 2025 was especially notable. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all made significant hardware announcements, and those announcements meant every laptop maker had a...
Slashdot reader rzack writes: Since 1999, I've written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another. Here's the thing. It's all hand-written using vi, ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times: Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok...
El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show Kettle The annual Consumer Electronics Show was held this week in Las Vegas – and for us the extravaganza felt a bit subdued for a change.…
Panasonic makes a fiery return with one of the best TVs right now.
'Every Ford EV model set a new sales record in 2024 with double-digit growth,' reports Electrek, with Ford's total U.S. electric vehicle sales jumping to 97,865, an increase of 34.8% from 2023. And in the last three months of 2024 Ford sold 30,176 EVs — which is also a new re...
Turn your kitchen into a café with these barista-worthy automatic espresso machines and latte machines
Google is reintroducing 'digital fingerprinting' in five weeks, reports Mashable, describing it as 'a data collection process that ingests all of your online signals (from IP address to complex browser information) and pinpoints unique users or devices.' Or, to put it...
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Three exotic new species of superconductivity were spotted last year, illustrating the myriad ways electrons can join together to form a frictionless quantum soup.
Unanimous AI's founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a 'wave' of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly 'as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives'... '[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with...
'JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank's return-to-office policy,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, according to people...
'Nuclear you can trust,' reads the web page promoting 'The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.' Yes, Enron.com is now announcing 'a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.' (A quick reminder from CNN in December. 'A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark...
Saturday January 11, 2025. 11:47 PM
Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a nonprofit in 1985 with four other directors (including MIT computer science professor Gerald Jay Sussman). Sussman remains on the Board of directors, along with EFF co-founder John Gilmore and five others. Friday the ...
WordPress co-creator (and Automattic CEO) Matt Mullenweg 'has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members,' reports TechCrunch, 'some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project.' Joost de Valk —...
Friday America's consumer watchdog agency 'proposed a rule to give virtual video game currencies protections similar to those of real-world bank accounts...' reports the Washington Post, 'so players can receive refunds or compensation for unauthorized transactions, similar...
As the ecological disaster continues, CNN reports the Palisades Fire near Malibu, California has burned at least 22,660 acres, left 100,000 peope under evacuation orders, left at least 11 people dead and 'destroyed thousands of homes and other structures.' From the last...
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