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Sunday January 26, 2025. 06:04 AM
Friday Bill Gates shared an excerpt from his upcoming memoir Source Code: My Beginnings. Published in the Wall Street Journal, the excerpt includes pictures of young Bill Gates when he was 12 (dressed for a hike) and 14 (studying a teletype machine). Gates remembers forming...
A plan to keep TikTok available in the U.S. 'involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors,' reports NPR, 'to effectively take control of the app's global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks...' '[P]otential...
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux 'could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,' according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. It's the code that processes packets of network traffic,...
Saturday January 25, 2025. 11:34 PM
Founded in 1947, the Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide authority 'for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system,' reports USA Today. Unfortunately, 'What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered...
An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch: The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps' further development. The trio is part of...
CleanTechnicareports that last year Americans 'bought 37% more air source heat pumps than the next most popular heating appliance — gas furnaces.' And Americans bought 21% more heat pumps than they did in 2023. Canary Media is quick to point out that in many homes, more than...
ZDNET's senior editor sees an 'overwhelmingly negative' response to Microsoft's surprise price hike for the 84 million paying subscribers to its Microsoft 365 software suite. Attempting the first price hike in more than 12 years, 'they made it a 30% price increase' — going...
2021: 'Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup' 2025: Canoo 'Goes Belly-Up After Moving to Texas' 'Its production volumes paled in comparison to Canoo's rate of cash burn, which was substantial, with net losses in 2023 totaling just over $300 million...' ...
TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So 'Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online.' The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews...
TikTok is still not available for download from U.S.-based app stores, reports CBS News. So 'Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online.' The Associated Press notes that New York-based Nicholas Matthews...
Slashdot reader jenningsthecat writes: 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Labs has faced a storm of controversy and protest after releasing a security update which many users claim is the first step in moving towards an HP-style subscription model. Bambu Labs responded that...
'For years, renewable energy proponents have hoped to build a U.S. electric grid powered by wind, solar, geothermal and — to a lesser extent — nuclear power...' writes the Washington Post. In America's power markets 'the economics of clean energy are strong,' with renewable...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Late last month, researchers revealed a finding that's likely to shock some people and confirm the low expectations of others: Renewable energy facilities throughout Central Europe use unencrypted radio signals to...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has released the largest ever photomosaic featuring over 200 million stars -- all of which are bright than our own Sun. It consists of over 600 overlapping Hubble images and 2.5 billion pixels. 'That is a huge number, yet only a fraction of the...
CERN's particle accelerator is being used in a pioneering cancer treatment called Flash radiotherapy. This method delivers ultra-high radiation doses in less than a second, minimizes side effects while targeting tumors more effectively than conventional radiotherapy. The BBC ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A U.S. auto safety agency said on Friday it is reconsidering a landmark rule from the administration of former President Joe Biden requiring nearly all new cars and trucks by 2029 to have advanced automatic emergency braking...
As spotted by Tom's Hardware, Nvidia's CUDA 12.8 release notes signal the transition of Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs to the legacy driver branch. As a result, there will be no more new feature updates for these architectures; however, CUDA and gaming driver support will...
The British Museum was partly closed after a dismissed IT contractor trespassed, shutting down systems including its ticketing platform. The move disrupted operations and forced the closure of temporary exhibitions. The Guardian reports: While the museum will remain open...
Scientists have observed for the first time how microplastics move through and block blood vessels in mouse brains, according to research published in Science Advances this week. Using fluorescence imaging, researchers at Peking University tracked plastic particles as they...
Nearly 190 million Americans were affected by February's cyberattack on UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare unit, almost double initial estimates, the company disclosed Friday. The breach, the largest in U.S. medical history, exposed sensitive data including Social Security...
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