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Sunday May 4, 2025. 12:00 PM
Those epic battle scenes in space are awesome—and physically impossible. But hey, it’s more fun this way!
'It is the fastest, most efficient transistor ever,' proclaims an announcment from Peking University. 'And most important of all, there's no trace of silicon involved,' adds ZME Science. From the South China Morning Post: A team of researchers at Peking University claims to...
In 2016, an online 'swarm intelligence' platform stunned horse-racing fans by making a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But the next year its predictions weren't even close, with TechRepublic suggesting 2016's race just had...
There's 9,000 satellites circling the earth, the Guardian points out, with projections over over 60,000 by 2040. But 'A new study shows that the emissions from expired satellites, as they fall to Earth and burn up, will be significant in future years, with implications for...
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares an article from Renewables Now: Chinese tech company Leapting has successfully completed its first commercial deployment of photovoltaic (PV) modules with an AI-driven solar module mounting robot in Australia. The Chinese company was...
Saturday May 3, 2025. 11:43 PM
'Researchers have created the first laboratory analog of the 'black hole bomb',' reports ScienceAlert, 'a theoretical concept developed by physicists in the 1970s...' There's no black hole involved; their experiment just simulates the 'electromagnetic analogue' of the...
Long-time Slashdot reader piojo writes: Tim Friede, Wisconsin man, has been injecting himself with snake venom for 18 years to gain protection from his pet snakes. The antibodies he developed have formed two components of a three-part antivenom, which gives partial or total...
America's federal government 'is a veritable cosmos of information, made up of constellations of databases,' warns the Atlantic. The FBI 'has a facial-recognition apparatus capable of matching people against more than 640 million photos — a database made up of driver's licens...
Threads has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, reports TechCrunch, citing Mark Zuckerberg's comments on a company earnings call. That means Threads grew by 9.4% in roughly 90 days: That's an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta...
The Open Source Initiative is joining 'a global community of contributors' for GitHub's annual event 'honoring the individuals who steward and sustain Open Source projects.' And the theme of the 4th Annual 'Maintainer Month' will be: securing Open Source: Throughout the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Facebook's loosening of its content moderation standards early this year got lots of attention and criticism. But a new study suggests that it might matter less what is taken down than when. The research finds...
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares this excerpt from a new article in Science magazine: At first, astronomers knew of only one cosmic scenario that fit the bill for the violent formation of 'jewelry shop' elements [gold and sliver]: the collision of two ultra-dense stellar...
Remember when U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen's Houthis? A recent photo of a high-level cabinet meeting caught Waltz using a 'less-secure Signal app...
Clean your house without the restraint of a power cord with these cordless stick vacuums.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 (source paywalled; alternative source) who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech companies vie to attract...
This is the best robot vacuum we’ve tested, and it scored a rare 10 out of 10.
With unrivaled performance, a versatile triple-camera setup, and a fun modular accessory system, Nothing's CMF Phone 2 Pro reinvents the idea of a budget smartphone. But there's a catch.
The Chinese automaker's new model has a big range, lightning quick charging, and is super cheap—but it's a new pure vision-based autonomous driving system very similar to Tesla’s.
Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie A Soviet probe launched more than half a century ago is due to return to Earth in the next week or two, and there's every chance that the vehicle will make it all the way to our planet's surface.…
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