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Saturday March 29, 2025. 11:34 PM
Automotive historian Dan Albert loves the 'adorable tiny truck' he's driving. It's one of the small Japan-made 'kei' pickups and minivans that 'make up about a third of car sales in Japan.' Americans can legally import older models for less than $10,000, and getting 40 miles ...
'I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,' a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times: If you entered media or image-making in the '90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design,...
Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, 'after a passenger could not locate their cellphone.' Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew...
In 1999 Slashdot reader Jeremie announced 'a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, etc).' It was the first release of the eXtensible Messaging and Presence...
Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes: No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy of the Earth — and...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Mercury News: After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a group of...
The Washington Post reports that after months of polar darkness, the extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter 'fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week... the smallest maximum extent in the 47-year satellite record, according to the...
Martha Stewart–endorsed Dinnerly is a budget meal kit that often feels homespun and extravagant. Now if they’d only lay off the broiler.
An anonymous reader shared this report from BleepingComputer: Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux's unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. The issues allow...
More silicon, more power, more pain for datacenter operators Comment As Jensen Huang is fond of saying, Moore's Law is dead – and at Nvidia GTC this month, the GPU-slinger's chief exec let slip just how deep in the ground the computational scaling law really is.…
Relive the joys of the ’70s and ’80s with this 300-game, full-size home arcade machine.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating disorders. Even so, it...
After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.
Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.…
Plus: Alleged Snowflake hacker will be extradited to US, internet restrictions create an information vacuum in Myanmar, and London gets its first permanent face recognition cameras.
Despite recent test failures, NASA has added SpaceX's Starship to its Launch Services Program contract, allowing it to compete for future science missions once it achieves a successful orbital flight. Florida Today reports: NASA announced the addition Friday to its current...
Plus: Lossless audio comes to the AirPods Max, the Pixel 9a gets an on-shelf date, and Sony’s midrange buds get a chunky upgrade.
Airbus UK wins £150M contract to revive long-delayed rover project Airbus UK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the European aerospace giant, has won the £150 million contract to complete a landing system for the long-delayed ExoMars rover.…
A new study warns that toxic Martian dust contains fine particles and harmful substances like silica and metals that pose serious health risks to astronauts, making missions to Mars more dangerous than previously thought. The Guardian reports: During Apollo missions to the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A concert on Monday night at New York's Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents' wedding anniversary. He didn't end up seeing the show -- and before he could even get past security, he was ...
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