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Monday December 30, 2024. 04:22 PM
An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia is betting on robotics as its next big driver of growth, as the world's most valuable semiconductor company faces increasing competition in its core AI chipmaking business. The US tech group, best known for the infrastructure that...
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has returned to the International Chess Federation (FIDE) World Rapid and Blitz Championships after new rules allowed players to wear 'elegant' jeans with jackets. Carlsen had withdrawn from the New York tournament when officials demanded...
America's aerospace industry is overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration (or FAA) — which also handles safety warnings from the industry's whistleblowers. But the Seattle Times says an analysis of reports to Congress found 'an overwhelmed system delivering...
'I still can't quite believe that I'm using an Arm-powered Windows laptop every day,' writes a senior editor at the Verge: After more than a decade of trying to make Windows on Arm a reality, Microsoft and Qualcomm finally nailed it this year with Copilot Plus PCs. These new ...
President-elect Donald Trump has defended the H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers. 'I've always liked the visas. I have many H-1B visas on my properties... It's a great program,' Trump told The New York Post. His comments follow recent support for the program from...
Slashdot reader SysEngineer shared this report from the Guardian: AI tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions — ranging from what to buy to who to vote for — according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. The paper highlights an...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. Born in 1924, he had just celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1st. If you want to catch a glimpse of his political charisma, YouTube has a clip of Carter's appearance on 'What's My Line' when he was still only governor of...
'Every single one of the top ten box office hits of 2024 was a sequel, a remake... or a prequel,' writes The Hollywood Reporter. Here's the list of 2024's top-grossing films published by the movie blog SlashFilm: 10. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 9. Venom: The Last Dance 8. Kung...
Sunday December 29, 2024. 11:58 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal: The rich get richer — and older. People with high salaries and net worth tend to live longer lives, research shows. Once Americans make it to their late 50s, the wealthiest 10% live to a median age of around...
When it comes to the possibility of a bird flu outbreak, America's Centers for Disease Control recently issued a statement that the risk to the public 'remains low.' But even in the event of a worst-case scenario, New York magazine believes 'We may be more equipped for...
Reuters reports: Finnish police said on Sunday they had found tracks that drag on for dozens of kilometres along the bottom of the Baltic Sea where a tanker carrying Russian oil is suspected of breaking a power line and four telecoms cables with its anchor... A break in the...
NPR remembers when the world 'prepared for the impending global meltdown' that might've been, on December 31, 1999 — and the possible bug known as Y2K: The Clinton administration said that preparing the U.S. for Y2K was probably 'the single largest technology management...
The Washington Post shares some good news from 2024: Researchers were able to detect a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons — harmful gases that deplete the ozone layer — for the first time, almost 30 years after countries first agreed to phase...
After a four-year hiatus, 2025 will see the return of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. Started in 1984 (and inspired partly by a bug in the classic Bourne shell), it's 'the Internet's oldest contest,' acording to their official social media account on Mastodon....
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Archer is aiming to launch its first commercially operated [and electrically-powered] flights with a pilot and passengers within a year in Abu Dhabi. A competitor, Joby Aviation, says it is aiming to launch...
While microplastics seem to be everywhere, CNN reports that scientists in China 'have come up with a possible solution: a biodegradable sponge made of squid bones and cotton' (which contain two organic compounds 'known for eliminating pollution from wastewater...') They then ...
A 9-year-old girl born without a left hand had 'started asking for a robotic arm to help her feel more confident,' her mother told the Washington Post. So her parents met with a consultant from Open Bionics, which fits people with lightweight, 3D-printed prostheses that...
'Over the course of 2024, Python has proven again and again why it's one of the most popular, useful, and promising programming languages out there,' writes InfoWorld: The latest version of the language pushes the envelope further for speed and power, sheds many of Python's...
It had a 4.8-inch display. Introduced in 1991, Hewlett-Packard's (DOS-based) HP 95LX Palmtop PC — a collaboration with Lotus — was finally discontinued back in 2003. But one found its way to long-time Slashdot reader Shayde (who in November repaired a 48-year-old handheld vid...
'Dating apps are on the cusp of a major transformation,' argues CNN, suggesting AI-powered possibilities like 'personalized chatbots dating other chatbots on your behalf,' as well as 'AI concierges fielding questions about potential matches,' and 'advanced algorithms...
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