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Sunday December 22, 2024. 01:34 PM
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.
Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.
A software update was supposed to free up the PS Portal from its reliance on the PS5 and add a world of streamable games to its appeal. In practice, it does nothing of the sort.
With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?
'From the moment GPT-4 came out in March 2023, OpenAI has been working on GPT-5...' reports the Wall Street Journal. [Alternate URL here.] But 'OpenAI's new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. It isn't clear when — or if — it'll...
TL;DR: Double your screen space with 20% off this 15.6-inch portable monitor. Working on a tiny, single screen feels like trying to cook in a shoebox. Between endless tab switching and squinting at text, it’s a miracle you get anything done. A lot of people are getting...
TL;DR: With our end-of-year sale, you can pay only $119.97 for Microsoft Office 2024 Home for PC or Mac instead of $149.99. If you’ve been putting off upgrading Microsoft Office, consider this your sign. Office 2024 has smarter tools for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, plus...
The world's first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK's University of Bristol. Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from LiveScience:...
Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of data.. The outage had...
'More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of perhaps the world's most high-profile alleged killer,' Wired wrote this...
An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News: U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, released Thursday, found...
Saturday December 21, 2024. 11:02 PM
Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe is also long-time Slashdot reader ReneR — and popped by with a special announcement for the holidays: The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed 'Sky's the Limit!', delivering a massive update for this highly...
'Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth,' writes Gizmodo. And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager's signals on a 1950s-era telescope... The ...
On Thursday New Jersey lawmakers passed a resolution 'calling on the federal government to conduct a 'rigorous and ongoing' investigation into the drone sightings in the state,' reports the Associated Press: Meanwhile, federal and local authorities are warning against...
Nature magazine reports that 'A study that stoked enthusiasm for the now-disproven idea that a cheap malaria drug can treat COVID-19 has been retracted — more than four-and-a-half years after it was published.' Researchers had critiqued the controversial paper many times,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft's popular VS Code editor. Until now, most...
'California's population grew this year by nearly a quarter of a million residents,' reports the Los Angeles Daily News, 'closing in on record-high population levels the Golden State reached before the pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday.' Although 'Data...
The Linux Foundation partnered with GitHub and Harvard's Laboratory for Innovation Science to research organization-driven investments in open source software — the how and the why — surveying over 500 organizations around the world. So what are the highlights from the...
Lina Khan’s tenure may end, but the regulatory hurdles she helped build aren’t going anywhere Analysis When Donald Trump takes office for his second term on January 20, many expect sweeping changes across the board. But among tech players, when it comes to mergers and...
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