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Tuesday May 13, 2025. 12:02 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Countries are meeting at the United Nations on Monday to revive efforts to regulate the kinds of AI-controlled autonomous weapons increasingly used in modern warfare, as experts warn time is running out to put guardrails on...
Monday May 12, 2025. 11:20 PM
Google is updating its iconic 'G' logo for the first time in 10 years, replacing the four solid color sections with a smooth gradient transition from red to yellow to green to blue. 'This modernization feels inline with the Gemini gradient, while AI Mode in Search uses...
Ticketmaster will now show full ticket prices upfront -- fees included. 'The company announced the 'All In Prices' initiative on Monday as part of its efforts to comply with the Federal Trade Commission's ban on junk fees, which goes into effect on May 12th,' notes The...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last Thursday, white smoke emerged from a chimney at the Sistine Chapel, signaling that cardinals had elected a new pope. That's a rare event in itself, but one of the many unprecedented aspects of the election of...
Apple is planning to use AI technology to address a frequent source of customer frustration: the iPhone's battery life. From a report: The company is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19, an iPhone software update due in September, according to people...
An anonymous reader shares a report: A new report claims that Nvidia has recently raised the official prices of nearly all of its products to combat the impact of tariffs and surging manufacturing costs on its business, with gaming graphics cards receiving a 5 to 10% hike...
Chegg said on Monday it would lay off about 22% of its workforce, or 248 employees, to cut costs and streamline its operations as students increasingly turn to AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT over traditional edtech platforms. From a report: The company, an online education ...
The climate crisis is threatening the future of the world's most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean may no longer be suitable for growing the fruit by 2080, new research has found. From a report: Rising...
Western Digital has made a strategic investment in German startup Cerabyte, a company developing nearly indestructible ceramic-based data storage technology. The partnership aims to accelerate commercialization of Cerabyte's ceramic-on-glass material, which the company...
Apple is weighing price increases for its fall iPhone lineup, a step it is seeking to couple with new features and design changes, according to WSJ, which cited people familiar with the matter. From the report: The company is determined to avoid any scenario in which it...
Evidence is mounting for 'a vast reservoir of liquid water' on Mars, according to a new article by Australian National University professor Hrvoje TkalÄiÄ and geophysics associate professor Weijia Sun from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, announcing their recently...
The United States and China said Monday they reached an agreement to temporarily reduce the tariffs [non-paywalled source] they have imposed on each other in an attempt to defuse the trade war threatening the world's two largest economies. From a report: In a joint...
Business Insider tells the story in three bullet points: - Big Tech companies depend on content made by others to train their AI models. - Some of those creators say using their work to train AI is copyright infringement. - The U.S. Copyright Office just published a report...
It's been a mobile-only game for decades. Then a little more than a week ago Infinity Nikkireleased its 1.5 update (which introduced multiplayer and customization options) and launched the game on Steam. But it 'didn't go over as planned,' writes the worker-owned gaming site ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Verge: This morning, while summarizing an Apple 'product blitz' he expects for 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a 'mostly glass, curved iPhone' with no display cutouts for...
Fusion energy 'took one step closer to reality,' announced the University of Texas at Austin, as their researchers joined with a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Type One Energy Group and 'solved a longstanding problem in the field' — how to contain high-energy...
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that target the macOS version of AI-powered code-editing tool Cursor, reports The Hacker News: 'Disguised as developer tools offering 'the cheapest Cursor API,' these packages steal user credentials, fetch...
Sunday May 11, 2025. 11:02 PM
18 years ago Slashdot covered the creation of Spaceport America. Today Space.com hails it as 'the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world.' But engineer/executive director Scott McLaughlin has plans to grow even more. Already home to an array of commercial...
Whoop fitness trackers had promised free upgrades to anyone who'd been a member for at least six months — and then reneged. 'After customers began complaining, the company responded with a Reddit post, according to a report from TechCrunch: Now, anyone with more than 12...
OpenAI is currently in 'a tough negotiation' with Microsoft, the Financial Times reports, citing 'one person close to OpenAI.' On the road to building artificial general intelligence, OpenAI hopes to unlock new funding (and launch a future IPO), according to the article,...
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