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Tuesday April 8, 2025. 01:16 PM
In Delhi's Nehru Place and Mumbai's Lamington Road, technicians are creating functional laptops from salvaged parts of multiple discarded devices. These 'Frankenstein' machines sell for approximately $110 USD -- a fraction of the $800 price tag for new models. Technicians...
Monday April 7, 2025. 01:34 PM
Scientists 'demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers' at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post. But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — 'the same...
Brain rot — the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on a phone — afflicts 'plenty of people,' writes the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer. [Alternate URL here.] He's suffering from it too — 'These days, it's tough to even finish a book.' But is...
'Gen Z is rediscovering Tumblr — a chaotic, cozy corner of the internet untouched by algorithmic gloss and influencer overload...' writes Fast Company, 'embracing the platform as a refuge from an internet saturated with influencers and algorithm fatigue.' Thanks to Gen Z, the...
'U.S. stock market futures plunged on Sunday evening,' reports Yahoo Finance, 'after the new U.S. tariff policy began collecting duties over the weekend...' The EU will vote on $28 billion in retaliatory tariffs Wednesday, Reuters reports. (And those tariffs will be approved ...
'Three Microsoft CEOs walk into a room...' Satya Nadella posted on X.com, 'and are interviewed by Copilot!' As part of Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, Microsoft CEO Nadella joined former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in a funny two-minute video (also...
Nuclear fusion — which releases four times the energy of fission — could theoretically happen sooner in space than on earth, reports CNN. 'And it could help spacecraft achieve speeds of up to 500,000 miles (805,000 kilometers) per hour — more than the fastest object ever...
Sunday April 6, 2025. 11:40 PM
It was already the best-selling videogame of all time, notes the Hollywood Reporter. And A Minecraft Movie just had the biggest opening ever for a video game movie adaptation. WIth a production budget of $150 million, it earned in $157 million in just its first weekend in...
theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will assess and identify first downs after a ball spot. Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology, which consists of six 8K...
It's 'a milestone for Meta AI and for open source,' Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. 'For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier [large-language] models will be open source.' Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama LLMs in a video posted on...
It was long-time Slashdot reader uninet who argued 'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia.' (That is, Apple needs an upgrade to MacOS Sequoia that's like it's earlier 'Snow Leopard' upgrade to 'Leopard' OS — an upgrade that's 'all about how little it added and how much it took away'.)...
'I started working on Voyager in 1977,' the Voyager mission's project scientist told Gizmodo Saturday in a new interview. 'It was my first job out of college.' 35 years later, a Voyager probe became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space in 2012, with Voyager...
Tinder 'is experimenting with a chatbot that claims to help users improve their flirting skills,' notes Washington Post internet-culture reporter Tatum Hunter. The chatbot is available only to users in the United States on iPhones for a limited time, and powered by OpenAI's...
This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica: It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action...
U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their 'Horizon' accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission 'is attempting to...
The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, 'But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the ...
Microsoft has created a real-time AI-generated rendition of Quake II gameplay (playable on the web). Friday Xbox's general manager of gaming AI posted the startling link to 'an AI-generated gaming experience' at Copilot.Microsoft.com 'Move, shoot, explore — and every frame...
Berkeley, California is 'the latest city to try to block landlords from using algorithms when deciding rents,' reports the Associated Press (noting that officials in many cities claim the practice is driving up the price of housing). But then real estate software company...
Saturday April 5, 2025. 11:34 PM
Over on Reddit's 'selfhosted' subreddit for alternatives to popular services, long-time Slashdot reader Zoup described a pain point: - Landlock is a Linux Security Module (LSM) that lets unprivileged processes restrict themselves. - It's been in the kernel since 5.13, but...
'The third James Bond novel was published on this day in 1955,' writes long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger. Film buff Christian Petrozza shares some history: In 1979, the market was hot amid the studios to make the next big space opera. Star Wars blew up the box office in...
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