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Monday April 1, 2024. 01:34 PM
'As you're reading this, you're more likely than not already inside 'The Matrix',' according to a headline on the front page of CNN.com this weekend. It linked to an opinion piece by Rizwan Virk, founder of MIT's startup incubator/accelerator program. He's now a doctoral...
'Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona...' reads the official text of House Bill #2,477. 'PLUTO IS THE OFFICIAL STATE PLANET.' An anonymous reader shared this report from Capital Media Services: The governor signed legislation Friday designating Pluto as...
'Sail to a continent as mysterious as outer-space itself,' the new web site urges. 'William Shatner saw Earth from the highest view,' writes Scripps News Service. 'Now he's heading to the bottom of it — and inviting you to join him.' The 93-year-old is setting sail for Antarc...
Described as a 'non profit volunteer search team' on its official site, Sunshine State Sonar 'found more than 350 cars in canals, ponds and waterways across Florida' in just the last two years, according to the Tampa Bay Times. It's owned by two half brothers — 'weekend...
'After taking a look at Floorp Browser, I was left wondering whether there was a Chromium-based web browser that was as good, or even better than Chrome,' writes a 'First Look' reviewer at It's Foss News. 'That is when I came across Thorium, a web-browser that claims to be...
Last Monday shares of Reddit's stock soared 30%, reports CNBC — and then another 8.8% on Tuesday. But the moves happened 'even after New Street Research issued a neutral rating on the company' — and by the end of the week, CNBC was reporting that 'Reddit shares are...
Sunday March 31, 2024. 10:49 PM
'Subscribers of both Disney+ and Hulu can now access Hulu content through the Disney+ app,' reports the Los Angeles Times, 'as the Burbank media and entertainment giant launched its one-app integration of the two streaming services Wednesday...' The move is part of Disney's...
As a department of America's federal Health agency, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for public health rules, including prescription medicines. And the FDA 'has not changed its position that currently available clinical trial data do not demonstrate that...
New documents from a class action against Meta 'reveal some of the specific ways it tackled rivals in recent years,' reports the Observer. 'One of them was using software made by a mobile data analytics company called Onavo in 2016 to access user activities on Snapchat, and...
Godzilla x Kong 'stomped all over expectations,' writes Deadline, 'with an $80M opening, the second best start of the year so far, $2.5M behind the $82.5M opening of Legendary's other big pic this spring, Dune: Part Two... 'EntTelligence reports that GxK is expected to pull...
'Google is testing the ability to automatically archive and delete inactive tabs in Chrome on Android,' writes Windows Report: The experimental feature, called Tab Declutter, aims to simplify tab management by automating the process... After a set period of inactivity,...
'What a time we live in,' writes Phoronix, 'where Microsoft not only continues contributing significantly to the Linux kernel but doing so to further flesh out the design of the Linux kernel's Rust programming language support...' Microsoft engineer Wedson Almeida Filho has...
Personal data from 73 million AT&T customers has leaked onto the dark web, reports CNN — both current and former customers. AT&T has launched an investigation into the source of the data leak... In a news release Saturday morning, the telecommunications giant said the data...
A CNN opinion piece looks at 'the moaning about manual transmission's demise,' noting that 'it's not just Europeans (literally) clinging on. In the U.S., there's apparently a young (also predominantly male) demographic that is embracing manual driving — championing it as...
In 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the outlawing of sports betting in America. But the Wall Street Journal reports that since then all the major professional sports bodies 'now realize just how much they have to lose as the new era unfolds.' 'All it takes is for a...
404 Media claims to have identified 'the fundamental flaw with the age verification bills and laws' that have already passed in eight state legislatures (with two more taking effect in July): 'the delusional, unfounded belief that putting hurdles between people and...
'After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise,' reports Phoronix: NetBSD 10 provides WireGuard support, support for many newer Arm platforms including for Apple Silicon and newer Raspberry Pi boards, a new Intel...
Saturday March 30, 2024. 11:34 PM
'Today's most effective corporate lobbying no longer involves wooing members of Congress...' writes the Wall Street Journal. Instead the lobbying sector 'now works in secret to influence lawmakers with the help of an unlikely ally: you.' [Lobbyists] teamed up with PR gurus,...
A Linux Foundation subsidiary has developed a free and open-source 3D game engine distributed under the Apache license. And last week the Open 3D Foundation announced 'a big step forward, showcasing the power of open-source technologies in giving gamers around the globe...
This week every U.S. agency was ordered to appoint a 'chief AI officer'. But that wasn't the only AI policy announced. According to CNN, 'By the end of the year, travelers should be able to refuse facial recognition scans at airport security screenings without fear it could...
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