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Wednesday November 20, 2024. 02:00 PM
Longtime Slashdot reader slack_justyb writes: The Fast Light Toolkit released version 1.4.0 of the venerable, though sometimes looking a bit dated, toolkit from the '90s. New in this version are better CMake support, HiDPI support, and initial support for Wayland on Linux...
AzWa Snowbird writes: An AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to 'quit their jobs' and follow it. The incident took place in a Shanghai robotics showroom where surveillance footage captured a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer,...
Slashdot readers damn_registrars and GFS666 share the news of the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s. He was 96. Hackaday reports: The origins of BASIC lie in the Dartmouth Timesharing System, like similar timesharing...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: Microsoft and Atom Computing say they've reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers. Microsoft says it will start delivering the...
Sony is bringing cloud streaming to the PlayStation Portal. 'When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi,' notes The Verge's Jay Peters. 'But as part of a new system update that's rolling out starting later today, you'll be able...
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple plans to license some of its Apple TV+ content to competing services in an effort to save money and spread its reach. From the report: Apple has hired an executive to license its original productions to other companies, a...
SpaceX's Starship rocket successfully completed its sixth launch today. Not only did it carry the first-ever payload but it also briefly re-lit one of its six Raptor engines about 38 minutes into flight, a crucial milestone for future space missions. Space Magazine reports:...
Monday November 18, 2024. 04:25 PM
Apple has stopped selling its Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone jack adapter in the U.S. and most countries, with limited stock remaining only in select European markets. The $9 accessory, introduced with iPhone 7 in 2016 (after the 'courageous' move to stop including the...
Donald Trump has named FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to chair the U.S. communications regulator when he takes office in January 2025, citing Carr's stance against what Trump called 'regulatory lawfare.' Carr, a lawyer and longtime Republican who has served at the FCC under...
Silicon Valley's venture-capital firms are having an easy time finding promising startups to back. The hard part is cashing out. From a report: Last year, U.S. venture firms returned $26 billion worth of shares back to their investors, the lowest amount since 2011, according ...
The goal? 'Make C++ and Rust interoperability easily accessible and approachable to the widest possible audience.' And the Rust Foundation's 'Interop Initiative' is specifically focused on the goal of interoperability 'within the same executable,' through either inline...
Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study testing 50 licensed physicians to see whether ChatGPT improved their diagnoses, reports the New York TImes. The results? 'Doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did...
The Tiobe index tries to track the popularity of programming languages by counting the number of search results for the language's name followed by the word 'programming' (on 25 different search engines). And this month there were some surprises... By TIOBE's reckoning,...
A new six-episode Dune series premiers tonight on HBO and Max — a prequel to the Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune movies set 10,000 years before the birth f Paul Atreides. The Hollywood Reporter writes that it 'draws on source material from the 2012 novel Sisterhood of Dune by...
Slashdot unixbhaskar writes: Linus has released a fresh Linux kernel for public consumption. Please give it a try and report any glitches to the maintainers for improvement. Also, please do not forget to express your appreciation to those tireless folks who did all the hard...
This week Alphabet CEO Sundar Picahi assured investors that their long-term AI focus and investment (and a 'commitment to innovation') 'are paying off,' reports the Associated Press. Alphabet's stock has already soared 20% this year, and it's 'still thriving' as the company...
Sunday November 17, 2024. 11:52 PM
On a small network of islands north of Seattle, Washington, San Juan County just completed its first full year of 32-hour workweeks, reports CNN. And Tuesday the county released a report touting 'a host of positive outcomes — from recruiting to retention to employee...
Nyx is a new reusable space capsule that 'safely and affordably carries cargo to and from space stations,' according to the web page of its European-based manufacturer, The Exploration Company, 'launching from any heavy launcher worldwide.' And the company 'just closed a...
'Here's how Apple's next major product will work,' writes Bloomberg's Mark Gurman: The company has been developing a smart home command center that will rival products like the Amazon Echo Hub and Google Nest Hub... The product will run many of Apple's core apps, like...
'Amazon is making it harder for disabled employees to get permission to work from home,' reports Bloomberg, a move they say shows Amazon's 'determination' to enforce a five-days-a-week return to the office. The company recently told employees with disabilities that it was...
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