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Monday March 10, 2025. 12:19 AM
NPR reports on 'a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door.' This appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside our Milky Way galaxy, according to a report that's appearing in The Astrophysical Journal... 'Now that there is strong...
Sunday March 9, 2025. 10:48 PM
gdm (Slashdot reader #97,336) writes: A study published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives investigates how ants avoid traffic jams.... Quoting the abstract: 'The results show that ants adopt specific traffic strategies (platoon formation,...
Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. ('Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to anything in the actual...
Slashdot covered the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in 2008 and 2010 — though it's been running since 1983. Entrants competed to write the worst-possible first sentence for a novel, in a contest started by English professor Scott E. Rice at San Jose State University (which...
Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI Meta says it has managed to reduce the CPU cycles of its top services by 20 percent through its Strobelight profiling orchestration suite, which relies on the open source eBPF project.…
Damaged corneas were repaired at a Harvard teaching hospital in a unique clinical trial, reports New Atlas: Since it's on the frontline of potential hazards from the outside world, the cornea features a population of limbal epithelial stem cells, which repair minor damage to ...
Slashdot reader databasecowgirl writes: The Times is reporting an interesting study published in Science in which mice demonstrated doing first aid. In the replicated study, an anaesthetised mouse is exposed to another mouse who recognises the distress and clears airway to...
'McDonald's is giving its 43,000 restaurants a technology makeover,' reports the Wall Street Journal, including AI-enabled drive-throughs and AI-powered tools for managers — as well as internet-connected kitchen equipment. 'Technology solutions will alleviate the stress....'...
A blog post from the Stanford University School of Medicine attempts to answer the question: What's the deal with the gut-brain connection? It affects your mood, your sleep, even your motivation to exercise. There's convincing evidence that it's the starting point for...
TCL’s upgraded 6 Series skips the brightness blast for impressively balanced performance.
This new wide-plate straightening iron has only one temperature setting, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
From comforters to sheets, pillows, and bed frames, here’s how to keep your bed in tip-top shape.
By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem, two groups of mathematicians have expanded the realm of mathematical unknowability.
Last week Google urged the U.S. government not to break up the company — but apparently, it didn't work. In a new filing Friday, America's Justice Department 'reiterated its November proposal that Google be forced to sell its Chrome web browser,' reports the Washington Post, ...
U.S. president Donald Trump called Daylight Saving Time 'very costly to our nation' and 'inconvenient' in December. Today the Washington Post remembers he'd vowed his Republican party would use their 'best efforts' to eliminate it. But it's still proving to be politically...
As Christie's auction house planned the first-ever auction dedicated to AI-generated art works, over 5,600 people signed an online letter urging them to cancel it. 'Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on...
'The early web was fun,' Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted Wednesday on X.com. 'It was weird. It was community-driven. It's time to rebuild that. 'Which is why Kevin Rose and I just bought back Digg.' The amount of that purchase is 'undisclosed,' reports CNBC: The deal ...
This week the Free Software Foundation 'backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 — the foundation's GNU Affero General Public License, version 3,' reports the Register. 'At stake is the future of not...
Saturday March 8, 2025. 11:34 PM
Axiom Space and Red Hat will collaborate to launch Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1) to the International Space Station this spring. It's a small data processing prototype (powered by lightweight, edge-optimized Red Hat Device Edge) that will demonstrate initial Orbital Data...
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