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Tuesday April 8, 2025. 06:00 PM
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company's approach to hiring in the age of AI. Employees will be expected to prove why they 'cannot get what they want done using AI' before asking for more headcount and resources, Lutke wrote in a memo to staffers that he posted to X. ...
Micron has informed US customers it will implement surcharges on memory modules and solid-state drives starting Wednesday to offset President Trump's new tariffs, according to Reuters. While semiconductors received exemptions in Trump's recent trade action, memory storage...
Meta released two new Llama 4 models over the weekend -- Scout and Maverick -- with claims that Maverick outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash on benchmarks. Maverick quickly secured the number-two spot on LMArena, behind only Gemini 2.5 Pro. Researchers have since...
In Delhi's Nehru Place and Mumbai's Lamington Road, technicians are creating functional laptops from salvaged parts of multiple discarded devices. These 'Frankenstein' machines sell for approximately $110 USD -- a fraction of the $800 price tag for new models. Technicians...
Monday April 7, 2025. 01:34 PM
Scientists 'demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers' at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post. But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — 'the same...
Brain rot — the inability to think deeply after too much scrolling on a phone — afflicts 'plenty of people,' writes the New York Times' lead consumer technology writer. [Alternate URL here.] He's suffering from it too — 'These days, it's tough to even finish a book.' But is...
'Gen Z is rediscovering Tumblr — a chaotic, cozy corner of the internet untouched by algorithmic gloss and influencer overload...' writes Fast Company, 'embracing the platform as a refuge from an internet saturated with influencers and algorithm fatigue.' Thanks to Gen Z, the...
'U.S. stock market futures plunged on Sunday evening,' reports Yahoo Finance, 'after the new U.S. tariff policy began collecting duties over the weekend...' The EU will vote on $28 billion in retaliatory tariffs Wednesday, Reuters reports. (And those tariffs will be approved ...
'Three Microsoft CEOs walk into a room...' Satya Nadella posted on X.com, 'and are interviewed by Copilot!' As part of Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, Microsoft CEO Nadella joined former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in a funny two-minute video (also...
Nuclear fusion — which releases four times the energy of fission — could theoretically happen sooner in space than on earth, reports CNN. 'And it could help spacecraft achieve speeds of up to 500,000 miles (805,000 kilometers) per hour — more than the fastest object ever...
Sunday April 6, 2025. 11:40 PM
It was already the best-selling videogame of all time, notes the Hollywood Reporter. And A Minecraft Movie just had the biggest opening ever for a video game movie adaptation. WIth a production budget of $150 million, it earned in $157 million in just its first weekend in...
theodp writes: America's National Football League announced that beginning with the 2025 season, Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology will assess and identify first downs after a ball spot. Sony's Hawk-Eye virtual measurement technology, which consists of six 8K...
It's 'a milestone for Meta AI and for open source,' Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. 'For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier [large-language] models will be open source.' Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama LLMs in a video posted on...
It was long-time Slashdot reader uninet who argued 'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia.' (That is, Apple needs an upgrade to MacOS Sequoia that's like it's earlier 'Snow Leopard' upgrade to 'Leopard' OS — an upgrade that's 'all about how little it added and how much it took away'.)...
'I started working on Voyager in 1977,' the Voyager mission's project scientist told Gizmodo Saturday in a new interview. 'It was my first job out of college.' 35 years later, a Voyager probe became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space in 2012, with Voyager...
Tinder 'is experimenting with a chatbot that claims to help users improve their flirting skills,' notes Washington Post internet-culture reporter Tatum Hunter. The chatbot is available only to users in the United States on iPhones for a limited time, and powered by OpenAI's...
This October will see the release of a film that's nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica: It's difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney's 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action...
U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their 'Horizon' accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission 'is attempting to...
The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, 'But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the ...
Microsoft has created a real-time AI-generated rendition of Quake II gameplay (playable on the web). Friday Xbox's general manager of gaming AI posted the startling link to 'an AI-generated gaming experience' at Copilot.Microsoft.com 'Move, shoot, explore — and every frame...
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