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Monday April 28, 2025. 06:04 PM
Inventor James Dyson described his career as 'a life of failure' in a recent Wall Street Journal interview, citing setbacks as drivers of innovation. The 77-year-old creator of the bagless vacuum cleaner, who built a $16.8 billion fortune according to Bloomberg's Billionaire ...
IBM announced plans to invest $150 billion in the United States over the next five years, with more than $30 billion earmarked specifically for research and development of mainframes and quantum computing technology. The investment follows similar commitments from tech...
Ruby on Rails creator and Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson, makes a case for why Google shouldn't be forced to sell Chrome: First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet. This wasn't some opportune acquisition. This...
Widespread power outages were reported Monday in parts of Spain, Portugal and France, affecting critical infrastructure like airports and causing transportation disruptions. From a report: 'The interruption was due to a problem in the European electricity grid,' E-Redes, the ...
Sales of electric vehicles in America jumped 10.6% in the first three months of 2025 (compared to the same period in 2024), reports Bloomberg. And research provider BloombergNEF expects all of 2025 will see a 31.5% sales increase from 2024's sales in the U:S. — slightly...
'A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it,' announced the University of California, San Diego, 'due to its previously unknown secondary function.' 'Researchers at the University of California San Diego ...
A new DARPA project called expMath 'aims to jumpstart math innovation with the help of AI,' writes The Register. America's 'Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency' believes mathematics isn't advancing fast enough, according to their article... So to accelerate — or...
Remember First Light Fusion? Founded in 2011, it was a pioneering British startup that in 2022 'successfully combined atomic nuclei, which U.K. regulators called a milestone in the decades-long push for fusion energy. It's now 'pulled the plug on plans to build its first...
Its goal was to 'support workers to reclaim the power of future-making'. A 2022 pilot project saw over 25 Amazon workers meeting online 'to discuss how science fiction shed light on their working conditions and futures.' 13 of them then continued meeting regularly in 2023...
Sunday April 27, 2025. 11:59 PM
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters: The secretive Russian satellite in space that U.S. officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapon program has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably, suggesting it may no longer be functioning in what...
What can you build with a 3D printer? Starbucks just printed itself a new store — a drive-through location in the southern tip of Texas. Fast Company says it's a store that 'looks more like the future of construction than your average café.' Built with layers of concrete pipe...
Microsoft Copilot 'isn't doing as well as the company would like,' reports XDA-Developers.com (citing a report from startup/VC industry site Newcomer). The Redmond giant has invested billions of dollars and a lot of manpower into making it happen, but as a recent report...
'Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize,' reports TechCrunch: Around 300 London-based members of Google's AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people...
'Not so long ago, working in tech meant job security, extravagant perks and a bring-your-whole-self-to-the-office ethos rare in other industries,' writes the Wall Street Journal. But now tech work 'looks like a regular job,' with workers 'contending with the constant fear of ...
The university blamed it on 'the significant number of students' who violated their coding competition's rules. Long-time Slashdot reader theodp quotes this report from The Logic: Finding that many students violated rules and submitted code not written by themselves, the...
'The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives,' reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed...
80-year-old George Lucas appeared this week at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back, reports CNN — and finally gave a good explanation for why Yoda speaks the way he does. 'He explained that it came about in order to ensure that the little alien's usually...
Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some 'straight-to-the-point wisdom' from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix. Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation,...
'4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online,' notes BoingBoing. (They add that Thursday saw 4chan's first blog postin years — just the words 'Testing testing 123 123...') But 4chan posted a much longer...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider: A Lufthansa flight carrying 461 passengers had to divert after someone's tablet became 'jammed' in a business-class seat. The Airbus A380 took off from Los Angeles on Wednesday, bound for Munich, and had been...
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