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Sunday September 22, 2024. 07:41 AM
'The cab was cut from a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee,' writes the New York Times. 'The engine once revved up a 1985 Toyota Celica; and 107 hand-sewn rubber segments, courtesy of Mr. Tymofichuk's wife, help to direct low-pressure air beneath the craft so that it rises eight...
'Exceed the speed limit in one of the 27 European Union countries, and you may get some pushback from your vehicle,' reports Car and Driver. 'As of July, new cars sold in the EU must include a speed-warning device that alerts drivers if they exceed the posted limit.' The...
Friday America's Federal Trade Commission brought action against three companies for 'anticompetitive and unfair' practices 'that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin.' For years, many of the millions of Americans who need insulin to survive 'have been forced ...
Saturday September 21, 2024. 11:34 PM
It's hypothetically capable of 'delivering an exquisite portrait of the detailed surface features of any exoplanet within 100 light-years...' writes Space.com. 'It would be better than any telescope we could possibly build in any possible future for the next few hundred...
X's struggles in Brazil got this update from the Guardian Wednesday: In a statement tweeted from X's global government affairs account, the company said the restoration of service was an 'inadvertent and temporary' side-effect of switching network providers. But Friday...
The Washington Post reports: An international team of scientists published a peer-reviewed paper Thursday saying genetic evidence indicates the coronavirus pandemic most likely originated with a natural spillover from an animal or animals sold in a market in Wuhan, China,...
Slashdot first covered Saul Justin Newman's work in 2019. Now a senior research fellow at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at University College London, Newman was recognized last week for research finding that most claims of people living over 105 are wrong. Newman's...
Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) announced Monday that Russian state media outlets like RT are now 'banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,' reports CNN. CNN adds that Meta is alleging that the 'Kremlin-controlled...
'In the era of the open source rug pull, the role of open source foundations is more important than ever,' argues the co-founder of the developer-focused industry analyst firm RedMonk: The 'rug pull' here refers to companies that have used open source as a distribution...
Friday the Wall Street Journal reported Qualcomm recently 'made a takeover approach' to Intel, which has a market value of roughly $90 billion ('according to people familiar with the matter...') A deal is far from certain, the people cautioned. Even if Intel is receptive, a...
Instead of eliminating jobs, self-service kiosks at McDonald's and other fast-food chains 'have added extra work for kitchen staff,' reports CNN — and as a bonus, 'pushed customers to order more food than they do at the cash register...' Kiosks 'guarantee that the upsell...
The world's biggest technology companies have embarked on a final push to persuade the European Union to take a light-touch approach to regulating AI as they seek to fend off the risk of billions of dollars in fines. From a report: EU lawmakers in May agreed the AI Act, the...
American Battery Technology and lithium-producer Albemarle are among 25 companies getting more than $3 billion in funding from the Biden administration to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and components. From a report: The funding -- part of a broader White...
A massive Antarctic glacier, dubbed the 'Doomsday Glacier,' is melting at an accelerating rate and could be approaching irreversible collapse, international researchers are reporting. The Thwaites Glacier, holding enough ice to raise global sea levels by over two feet, has...
A national 'butterfly emergency' has been declared by Butterfly Conservation after the lowest Big Butterfly Count since records began. From a report: An average of just seven butterflies per 15-minute count were recorded by participants in this summer's butterfly count, the...
Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving dozens of 'non-democratic' countries as part of a major overhaul of the company. From a report: The company, which...
The creator of an open source project that scraped the internet to determine the ever-changing popularity of different words in human language usage says that they are sunsetting the project because generative AI spam has poisoned the internet to a level where the project no ...
New submitter LazarusQLong shares a report: In late 1965, at what's now London Heathrow airport, a commercial flight coming from Paris made history by being the first to land automatically. The plane -- A Trident 1C operated by BEA, which would later become British Airways...
Friday September 20, 2024. 11:00 PM
Electric cars now outnumber petrol cars in Norway for the first time, an industry organisation has said, a world first that puts the country on track towards taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road. From a report: Of the 2.8m private cars registered in the Nordic country,...
Software developers who ship buggy, insecure code are the true baddies in the cyber crime story, Jen Easterly, boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has argued. From a report: 'The truth is: Technology vendors are the characters who...
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