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Sunday December 14, 2025. 12:20 AM
Here's a fun math problem for a Saturday afternoon: You've got 100 kg of potatoes that are 99% water. You leave them out overnight and they dry slightly, becoming 98% water. How much do they weigh now? If you guessed somewhere around 99 kg, congratulations — you're wrong....
'The entire java.applet package has been removed from JDK 26, which will release in March 2026,' notes Inside Java. But long-time Slashdot reader AirHog links to this blog post reminding us that 'Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever.' This ...
Saturday December 13, 2025. 11:17 PM
A Utah-based startup announced last week it used AI to locate a 250-degree Fahrenheit geothermal reservoir, reports CNN. It'll start producing electricity in three to five years, the company estimates — and at least one geologist believes AI could be an exciting...
TL;DR: Give your entire system an overhaul with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows & Windows 11 Pro Bundle, now just $39.97 (reg. $418.99). Louisa May Alcott said it best: it takes two flints to make a fire. — Read the rest The post Save 90% with this MS...
Choosing your browser 'is one of the most important digital decisions you can make, shaping how you experience the web, protect your data, and express yourself online,' says the Firefox blog. They've urged readers to 'take a stand for independence and control in your digital ...
Electrek reports: EV and battery supply chain research specialists Benchmark Mineral Intelligence reports that 2.0 million electric vehicles were sold globally in November 2025, bringing global EV sales to 18.5 million units year-to-date. That's a 21% increase compared to...
In 1975, 23-year-old electrical engineer Steve Sasson joined Kodak. And in a new interview with the BBC, he remembers that he'd found the whole photographic process 'really annoying.... I wanted to build a camera with no moving parts. Now that was just to annoy the...
New England's last coal-fired power plant 'has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date,' reports the New Hampshire Bulletin. 'The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with an initiative to transform the...
TL;DR: The 2025 Complete ChatGPT Skills Business Mastery Bundle is just $24.99 (reg. $197)—a sharp, low-cost way to upgrade how you write, plan, ideate, and communicate at work. If your goal for 2026 is to stop dabbling in AI and start using it like someone who gets...
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols files this report from Tokyo: At the invitation-only Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, 'The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the...
In April 2022, artist Steph Maj Swanson asked an AI image generator to produce something as far from Marlon Brando as possible. After a couple of iterations, the system started generating the same woman over and over: an older figure with hollow eyes and triangular patches...
A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?
This laid-back ride comes with an almost bewildering array of power modes and riding styles. Just make sure you obey the law.
Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more.
Plus: Apple Fitness+ expands to new markets, it’s even easier to add photos to Aura’s digital frames, and the new Nocs speakers go heavy metal.
I’ve been reviewing smart lighting for years. Here are tips on how to prep, what to choose, and the smart lights that work best in each room.
CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radar British Airways' chief executive has warned that the airline industry is fast heading for a future where AI agents, not humans, decide which brands get booked – and...
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Clean Energy Wire: Renewable energy sources covered nearly 56 percent of Germany's gross electricity consumption in 2025, according to preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW. Despite...
Instagram is awash with Asian firms showing how they can remake old Broncos, Defenders, and other whole classic cars—better and much cheaper than in the US.
A former Chinese official who fled to the U.S. says Beijing has used advanced surveillance technology from U.S. companies to track, intimidate, and punish him and his family across borders. ABC News reports: Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer ...
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