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dimanche 20 avril 2025, 09:34
A new Star Wars movie — starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy — will be released in 2027, the two announced Friday at the 'Star Wars Celebration' (a fan event in Japan). CNN reports: Set to begin production this fall, the movie will be set approximately five years...
The Trump administration is 'taking measures to restrict the sale of AI chips by Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel,' especially in China, reports the New York Times. But that's triggered a series of dominoes. 'In the two days after the limits became public, shares of...
'Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd,' reports CNN, 'a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra Nevada at a depth where Earth's crust would typically be too...
CNN looks at 'one field that's really benefitting' from the use of AI: 'the discovery of new medicines'. The founder/CEO of London-based LabGenius says their automated robotic system can assemble 'thousands of different DNA constructs, each of which encodes a completely...
samedi 19 avril 2025, 23:34
Billions of years ago Mars 'had a warm, habitable climate with liquid water in lakes and flowing rivers,' writes Ars Technica. But 'In order for Mars to be warm enough to host liquid water, there must have been a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,' says Benjamin...
For combining machine learning with astronomy, high school senior Matteo Paz won $250,000 in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, reports Smithsonian magazine: The young scientist's tool processed 200 billion data entries from NASA's now-retired Near-Earth Object Wide-field...
'Members of the CA/Browser Forum have voted to slash cert lifespans from the current one year to 47 days,' reports Computerworld, 'placing an added burden on enterprise IT staff who must ensure they are updated.' In a move that will likely force IT to much more aggressively...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: Neurotech startup Precision Neuroscience on Thursday announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major win for the four-year-old company... The...
In NoSQL database news, Arch Linux 'is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork,' reports Phoronix. Valkey is backed by the Linux Foundation, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle, which the article points out is due to Redis's...
'Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool AI chatbots,' reports the Washington Post. (When researchers checked 10 chatbots, a third of the responses repeated false pro-Russia messaging.) The Post argues that this tactic offers 'a playbook to other bad...
Launched in 1958, the 'awkward-looking' Vanguard-1 satellite ('the size of a grapefruit') is the oldest artificial object orbiting Earth. 'A team of researchers and engineers want to retrieve the satellite for closer inspection and are currently working to find a way to...
'There has never been a consensus or a 'smoking gun' to explain what started the pandemic,' writes ABC News. Yet the Associated Press reports that 'A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course. The robots from Chinese...
About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals, researchers have estimated, with as many as 1.4 billion people living in high-risk areas worldwide. From a report: Approximately 14 to 17% of cropland globally -- roughly 242m hectares -- is...
Researchers at UC Berkeley claim to have induced a previously unseen color by using lasers to stimulate only the M cones in the retina, creating a visual experience beyond the natural limits of human perception. Called olo, the color is described as a highly saturated...
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from Interesting Engineering: A research team at Fudan University in Shanghai, China has built the fastest semiconductor storage device ever reported, a nonvolatile flash memory dubbed 'PoX' that programs a single bit in...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: American composer Alvin Lucier was well-known for his experimental works that tested the boundaries of music and art. A longtime professor at Wesleyan University (before retiring in 2011), Alvin passed away in 2021...
OpenAI's latest reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinate more frequently than the company's previous AI systems, according to both internal testing and third-party research. On OpenAI's PersonQA benchmark, o3 hallucinated 33% of the time -- double the rate of older...
With macOS now 24 years old and Apple officially designating all Intel-based Mac minis as 'vintage' or 'obsolete,' The Register takes a look at new internet tools that help keep vintage Macs online and surprisingly relevant: Cameron Kaiser of Floodgap Systems is a valuable...
Bluesky is testing a new verification system featuring blue checks issued by 'Trusted Verifiers' like news organizations, rather than a centralized authority or pay-to-play model like X (formerly Twitter). 'Looking at the comments on the pull request, it's clear this idea...
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