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Monday October 14, 2024. 09:00 AM
The UK capital's most exciting startups showcase its strengths in biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
The German capital attracts talent from all over the world, and its startups are building endless AI-generated audio apps, virtual pet apps, and sensors for early wildfire detection.
The Portuguese capital's most exciting startups include a platform to help entrepreneurs get going, a smart punchbag, and the Uber of hair salons.
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave's quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.…
Also warns it will fire thousands and keep making losses in space Aerospace outfit Boeing has again delayed its 777X jet – a product on which it has hung all its hopes to help it turn around years of trouble – and warned of job cuts and further losses in its defence and...
WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too The fight between WordPress co-creator Matthew Mullenweg and CMS hosting outfit WP Engine escalated over the weekend, with the latter seemingly made persona non grata in the WordPress community – or at least the...
'Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android,' reports the blog Android Authority. 'The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. 'This app is likely intended for Chromebooks but might also be available for...
'Some prominent privacy advocates are encouraging customers to pull their data' from 23andMe, reports SFGate. But can you actually do that? 23andMe makes it easy to feel like you've protected your genetic footprint. In their account settings, customers can download versions...
America's electric vehicle subsidies brought a 2-to-1 return on investment, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. 'That includes environmental benefits, but mostly reflects a shift of profits to the United States,' reports the New York Times....
Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target SpaceX's engineers performed two significant feats on Saturday: catching Starship's Super Heavy Booster with mechanical arms on the rocket's launch tower, and achieving a...
To avoid overloading local electric grids, Britain's most productive windfarm 'is paid to turn off,' reports the Guardian — and across the industry these so-called 'constraint payments' amount to billions every year. 'Government officials are hoping to correct the clear...
Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals Indonesia's government last week ordered Apple and Google to remove Chinese e-commerce app Temu from their app stores.…
Sunday October 13, 2024. 11:48 PM
Slashdot reader Rick Schumann shared this report from the blog AppleInsider: A new paper from Apple's artificial intelligence scientists has found that engines based on large language models, such as those from Meta and OpenAI, still lack basic reasoning skills. The group...
'Technical outerwear brand Arc'teryx and wearable technology startup Skip have teamed up to create exoskeleton hiking pants, powered by AI...' reports CNN. After four years of collaboration and testing, the two companies plan to start selling the battery-powered pants in...
The Wall Street Journal reports on a 'suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft... as many as a dozen or more' that appeared in Virginia 10 months ago 'over an area that includes the home base for the Navy's SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval...
Zambia has the largest man-made lake in the world, reports the Associated Press — but a severe drought has left the lake's 128-meter-high (420-feet) dam wall 'almost completely exposed'. This leaves Kariba dam without enough water to run most of its hydroelectric turbines —...
Though native Linux game servers have been scarce over the last two decades, 'I've seen people using the Box64 emulator to play x86_64 games on ARM devices,' writes Slashdot reader VennStone. 'It got me thinking: why not apply this to game servers...? 'I thought it would be...
Early this morning SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on its fifth test flight. But more importantly, CNBC points out, SpaceX 'made a dramatic first catch of the rocket's more than 20-story tall booster.' Watch the footage here. It's pretty exciting... The...
Last month C dropped from 3rd to 4th in TIOBE's ranking of programming language popularity (which tries to calculate each language's share of search engine results). Java moved up into the #3 position in September, reports TechRepublic, which notes that by comparison October ...
For the most sensitive parts of the human body, friction is the enemy. Here's how to keep it at bay with our favorite lubes made of water, silicone, or natural oil.
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