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Monday December 23, 2024. 01:34 PM
Newsweek supplies some context After his arrest, merch — including T-shirts featuring Mangione's booking photos and others taken from his social media accounts — began popping up for sale on several sites. Websites, including Amazon, eBay and Etsy, have moved to take down...
The incoming Trump administration has signaled its hostility toward EVs. Will the red-state/blue-state divide come for public charging?
Inexpensive over-ear gear, but active noise cancelling won't block out the carol singers Review OneOdio has released a set of over-ear noise-cancelling headphones for an apparent bargain price of £59 ($69). However, they are also a prime example of the axiom 'you get what...
The first medical treatment to use Crispr gene editing has been on the market for a year. Its complexity means few patients in the US have received it yet.
The days of walling off the outside world to protect your network are quickly going the way of the Dodo. Thanks to the extraordinary growth of remote workforces, the adoption of cloud-based networking, and new cyber threats, the old network security model just no longer...
I’ve been writing these roundups for seven years running and in that time integrated graphics have gotten a lot more powerful. Just look at the Steam Deck and its many imitators: it’s the most popular gaming PC on the market by far, and it’s running off a laptop chip...
In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict.
Also, Ascension notifies 5.6M victims, Krispy Kreme bandits come forward, LockBit 4.0 released, and more in brief Google has announced plans to allow its business customers to begin 'fingerprinting' users next year, and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) isn't...
Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence.
Alphabet's Waymo robotaxis are providing 'hundreds of thousands of driverless rides each month,' reports the Washington Post. But as the robotaxi service expands in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin, some passengers 'have found that traveling by robotaxi can...
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Babbel gives you access to 14 languages with on-demand lessons for just $129.97—through December 31. The pressure of traditional language classes can be overwhelming for those who dislike speaking English in public. Babbel offers the...
TL;DR: Save 65% on this refurbished MacBook Pro and pay only $350 instead of $999—only while supplies last. Loyal PC users, hear us out. We know you’re a die-hard fan, but don’t you ever wonder if Mac users are right about MacBooks being better? If you’ve always...
Saturday France connected a new nuclear reactor to its grid 'for the first time in a quarter century...' reports Bloomberg, 'adding low-carbon electricity supply at a time when a sputtering economy has made demand sluggish.' The Flamanville-3 reactor — the first such...
'Drones collided, fell from the sky and hit a little boy after 'technical difficulties' during a holiday show...' reports the Orlando Sentinel. They note that a press release from the city said the 8 p.m. show was then cancelled: The company behind the drones, Sky Elements,...
It's not who owns AI training data. The Boston Review asks who owns its output? In a conversation with Microsoft's Copilot, I invited the AI to speculate what kind of thing it might write if it were not confined to answering human prompts. Among its answers was this response ...
Sunday December 22, 2024. 10:47 PM
A demonstration 'race' between a (human) F1 race car driver Daniil Kvyat and an autonomous vehicle was just staged by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League. Describing the league and the 'man vs. machine' showdown, Ars Technica writes, 'Say goodbye to the human driver and...
Long-time Slashdot AmiMoJo quotes this report from EcoWatch: Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain's power prices below zero. Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set ...
Engadget reports: Apple is developing a smart doorbell and lock system that would use Face ID to unlock the door for known residents, Mark Gurman reports in the Power On newsletter. The face-scanning doorbell would connect to a smart deadbolt, which could include existing...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Health magazine: 'Most people think of aging as occurring gradually, constantly, and linearly,' senior study author Michael Snyder, PhD, a professor of genetics and director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at...
A series of drone sightings over U.S. military bases 'has renewed concerns that the U.S. doesn't have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could potentially pose a national security threat,' reports CNN: 'We're one year past Langley...
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