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Sunday June 22, 2025. 03:34 AM
'Modern vehicles have quietly become rolling monuments to terrible user experience, trading intuitive physical controls for flashy but dangerous touchscreen interfaces,' argues the site Cars & Horsepower, decrying 'an industry-wide plague of poorly designed digital...
It's not just Amazon's CEO predicting AI will lower their headcount. 'Top executives at some of the largest American companies have a warning for their workers: Artificial intelligence is a threat to your job,' reports the Washington Post — including IBM, Salesforce, and...
ScienceAlert reports: Casino lighting could be nudging gamblers to be more reckless with their money, according to a new study, which found a link between blue-enriched light and riskier gambling behavior. The extra blue light emitted by casino decor and LED screens seems to ...
Saturday June 21, 2025. 11:10 PM
BlueSky has grown from roughly 10 million users in early November to 36.79 million today — and its last 30 days of traffic looks very level. But instead of calling BlueSky's traffic 'level', right-leaning libertarian Megan McArdle argues instead that BlueSky's 'decline shows ...
'The carbon cost of asking an artificial intelligence model a single text question can be measured in grams of CO2...' writes the Washington Post. And while an individual's impact may be low, what about the collective impact of all users? 'A Google search takes about 10...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Over the past three years, companies have invested tens of billions of dollars toward making electric vehicles in the United States, buoyed by tax incentives aimed at helping American businesses compete with...
It's not dark matter, writes Space.com. But astronomers have discovered 'a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy. 'With 10 times the mass of the Milky Way, this filamentary...
ScienceDaily reports: Researchers from MIT and Scripps have unveiled a promising new HIV vaccine approach that generates a powerful immune response with just one dose. By combining two immune-boosting adjuvants alum and SMNP the vaccine lingers in lymph nodes for nearly a...
In April Anthorpic introduced a new AI trick: multiple Claude agents combine for a 'Research' feature that can 'search across both your internal work context and the web' (as well as Google Workspace 'and any integrations...') But a recent Anthropic blog post notes this...
Threads now has 350 million users — but this week a strange bug affected some Threads accounts (on both desktop and mobile). 'One user's post will get repeated over and over again...' explains TechCrunch, 'as though every user on your feed is saying the same thing.' 'Siri,...
Intel is outsourcing much of its marketing work to Accenture, 'as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan works to slash costs and improve the chipmaker's operations,' reports OregonLive. From the report: The company said it believes Accenture, using artificial intelligence, will do a better job ...
YouTube is quietly hosting Pac-Man Superfast within its 'Playables' section. 'You'd be forgiven for not knowing about YouTube Playables,' writes Ars Technica's Kyle Orland. 'Few seemed to note its official announcement last year as a collection of free-to-play web games...
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europe to reassert itself as a global space power, warning that France risks being sidelined in the low Earth orbit satellite market dominated by players like SpaceX and China. Phys.Org reports: Macron spoke at the Paris Air Show in Le...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is envisaging setting up a $1 trillion industrial complex in Arizona that will build robots and artificial intelligence, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the...
The superyacht Bayesian, owned by UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, has been recovered off the coast of Sicily nearly a year after it sank during a storm, killing Lynch, his daughter, and five others. Italian authorities hope the $30 million salvage will uncover the cause of the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: To comply with a new regulation that takes effect today, Apple has added an energy efficiency label to its iPhone and iPad pages in EU countries. Apple is also required to start including a printed version of the label with ...
Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from The Guardian: The BBC is threatening legal action against Perplexity AI, in the corporation's first move to protect its content from being scraped without permission to build artificial intelligence technology. The...
According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Meta reportedly explored acquiring Perplexity AI but the deal fell through, with conflicting accounts on whether it was mutual or Perplexity backed out. Instead, Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, taking a 49% stake as part of its...
The company behind Applebee's and IHOP plans to use AI in its restaurants and behind the scenes to streamline operations and encourage repeat customers. From a report: Dine Brands is adding AI-infused tech support for all of its franchisees, as well as an AI-powered...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by ...
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