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Monday July 14, 2025. 08:10 PM
Air India's chief executive urged staff to avoid drawing premature conclusions about what caused one of the airline's Boeing triangle jets to crash last month, after a preliminary investigation ruled out mechanical or maintenance issues, turning attention to the pilots'...
A scientific paper featuring an AI-generated image of a rat with an oversized penis was retracted three days after publication, highlighting broader problems plaguing academic publishing as researchers struggle with an explosion of scientific literature. The paper appeared...
Google will merge ChromeOS and Android into a unified platform, according to Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. 'We're going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these ...
Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology that he has chased with a talent war for top AI engineers. From a report: The social...
VPN provider BulletVPN has shut down its servers with immediate effect, leaving subscribers without service regardless of their subscription terms. The company announced the closure on its website, citing 'shifts in market demand, evolving technology requirements, and...
Bay Area Michelin-starred restaurants are conducting extensive background research on diners before they arrive, mining social media profiles and maintaining detailed guest databases to personalize dining experiences. Lazy Bear maintains records on 115,000 people and employs ...
A Japanese government survey found 26.7% of people in Japan used generative AI during fiscal 2024, which ended in March. The figure tripled from the previous year but remained far behind China's 81.2% and the United States' 68.8%. People in their 20s led Japanese adoption at ...
Researchers have created the world's first mRNA-based vaccine against a deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium — and they did it using the platform developed for COVID-19 vaccines. Medical Express publishes their announcement: The vaccine developed by the team from the Instit...
'Steam quietly welcomed another indie game this week, but this one is distinctly different for a lot of reasons,' writes Notebookcheck: Dogwalk, which debuted on July 11, is the kind of short, gentle experience that almost forces you to smile. Developed by Blender Studio,...
An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld: Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen says Ada, a system programming language whose initial development dates back to the late 1970s, could outlast similarly aged languages like Visual Basic, Perl, and Fortran in the language popularity ...
Can carbon-reducing projects 'offset' a company's emissions? 'The reality has been less encouraging,' according to a Science magazine editorial by Cary Coglianese, a law/political science professor at University of Pennsylvania, and Cynthia Giles, a former senior advisor at...
At an Amazon warehouse that employs 3,700 people, hundreds of workers recently lost their job, reports the New York Times. 'They are among thousands of foreign workers across the country who have been swept up in a quiet purge, pushed out of jobs in places where their labor...
Sunday July 13, 2025. 11:55 PM
Brian Witten, VP/CSO of automotive technology supplier Aptiv, warns that 'While seven to 10 years may sound like a long way off, preparation for quantum threats must begin now, not once they have already materialized.' Organizations need time to implement post-quantum...
'GParted Live is a Linux distro with a focused purpose,' writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli. 'It exists solely to give users a simple and effective way to manage disk partitions. Whether you're resizing drives, prepping for dual boot, or recovering data, this live operating ...
'In the battle for Ukraine, the front line is increasingly at a standstill' because of 'rapid innovations in drone technology...' according to the Wall Street Journal. 'Each side has hundreds of them constantly in the air across the 750-mile front line.' And drones 'now...
HGP Storage is a (real) Texas company providing distributed battery-based, utility-scale energy storage systems. Founded in 2013, it has 'successfully developed over 20+ sites and closed over 200 MW of distributed energy projects,' according to its web site. And they just...
'Certain kinds of gut microbes absorb toxic Pfas 'forever chemicals' and help expel them from the body,' reports the Guardian, citing a 'new first-of-its-kind University of Cambridge research shows.' The microbes were found to remove up to 75% of some Pfas from the gut of...
An underwater turbine has been spinning for more than six years 'to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity,' reports the Associated Press. The long-running turbine (off the coast of Scotland) has now proven the commercial viability of the technology: Keeping a...
Electrek reports on the new Omo X, a scooter planned for release in 2026 that's 'full of premium tech features that blur the lines between e-scooter and self-driving EV.' At its recent launch in Jakarta, the Omo X didn't just sit pretty center stage, it actually drove itself ...
'A Nintendo Switch 2 user reportedly got his brand-new console banned by Nintendo after buying used Switch 1 games and patching them on his console,' reports Tom's Hardware: According to Reddit user dmanthey, they purchased four used titles off the Facebook marketplace,...
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