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Sunday April 20, 2025. 02:00 PM
Matt Asay answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2010 (as the then-COO of Canonical). He currently runs developer relations at MongoDB (after holding similar positions at AWS and Adobe). This week he contributed an opinion to piece to InfoWorld arguing that DeepSeek...
By understanding the churning region near singularities, physicists hope they might be able to reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.
A $450 serrated knife may slice a loaf just as cleanly as one that costs less than $50. But the benefits of the more lavish blade—quality, ergonomics, sheer prettiness—might make it worth the expense.
These three companies have developed tactile devices that help visually impaired spectators follow the live action playing out on the field.
A new Star Wars movie — starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy — will be released in 2027, the two announced Friday at the 'Star Wars Celebration' (a fan event in Japan). CNN reports: Set to begin production this fall, the movie will be set approximately five years...
The Trump administration is 'taking measures to restrict the sale of AI chips by Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel,' especially in China, reports the New York Times. But that's triggered a series of dominoes. 'In the two days after the limits became public, shares of...
'Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd,' reports CNN, 'a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra Nevada at a depth where Earth's crust would typically be too...
CNN looks at 'one field that's really benefitting' from the use of AI: 'the discovery of new medicines'. The founder/CEO of London-based LabGenius says their automated robotic system can assemble 'thousands of different DNA constructs, each of which encodes a completely...
Saturday April 19, 2025. 11:34 PM
Billions of years ago Mars 'had a warm, habitable climate with liquid water in lakes and flowing rivers,' writes Ars Technica. But 'In order for Mars to be warm enough to host liquid water, there must have been a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,' says Benjamin...
Only four of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts.
For combining machine learning with astronomy, high school senior Matteo Paz won $250,000 in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, reports Smithsonian magazine: The young scientist's tool processed 200 billion data entries from NASA's now-retired Near-Earth Object Wide-field...
'Members of the CA/Browser Forum have voted to slash cert lifespans from the current one year to 47 days,' reports Computerworld, 'placing an added burden on enterprise IT staff who must ensure they are updated.' In a move that will likely force IT to much more aggressively...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Neurotech startup Precision Neuroscience on Thursday announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major win for the four-year-old company... The...
In NoSQL database news, Arch Linux 'is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork,' reports Phoronix. Valkey is backed by the Linux Foundation, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle, which the article points out is due to Redis's...
'Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool AI chatbots,' reports the Washington Post. (When researchers checked 10 chatbots, a third of the responses repeated false pro-Russia messaging.) The Post argues that this tactic offers 'a playbook to other bad...
When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
Launched in 1958, the 'awkward-looking' Vanguard-1 satellite ('the size of a grapefruit') is the oldest artificial object orbiting Earth. 'A team of researchers and engineers want to retrieve the satellite for closer inspection and are currently working to find a way to...
When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously HP Inc has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US that alleged it used deceptive pricing tactics on its website, including fake discounts and misleading limited-time...
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