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Monday April 28, 2025. 11:40 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee police are mulling a trade: 2.5 million mugshots for free use of facial recognition technology. Officials from the Milwaukee Police Department say swapping the photos with the software firm...
Onchain investigator ZachXBT flagged a suspicious $330.7 million Bitcoin transfer that was quickly laundered into Monero, causing XMR's price to spike by 50%. CoinTelegraph reports: The transaction, reported on April 28, saw funds moved from a potential victim's wallet to...
Three Democratic senators are sounding the alarm over brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies' ability to collect -- and potentially sell -- our neural data. From a report: In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Maria Cantwell...
The sale of bankrupt DNA data bank 23andMe is delayed as the company struggles to secure a lead bidder who can meet regulatory and privacy requirements, pushing the initial auction deadline from Friday to Monday. Seeking Alpha reports: 23andMe Holdings (OTC:MEHCQ), currently ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Here's an easy to understand example of how Donald Trump's tariffs on imported products have completely screwed small U.S. businesses and entrepreneurs: the crowdfunding site Kickstarter is introducing a 'Tariff Manager...
Huawei is gearing up to test its newest and most powerful AI processor, which the company hopes could replace some higher-end products of U.S. chip giant Nvidia. From a WSJ report: Huawei has approached some Chinese tech companies about testing the technical feasibility of...
Researchers claiming affiliation with the University of Zurich secretly deployed AI-powered bots in a popular Reddit forum to test whether AI could change users' minds on contentious topics. The unauthorized experiment, which targeted the r/changemyview subreddit, involved...
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...
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