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lundi 31 mars 2025, 01:11
The U.S. and China 'are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker,' the Wall Street Journal wrote Saturday, adding that 'Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries.' 'The time has come for robots,' Nvidia's chief executive said at a conference in March, ...
dimanche 30 mars 2025, 23:17
Slashdot reader jrnvk writes: The Verge is reporting that Microsoft will soon make it harder to run the well-publicized bypassnro command in Windows 11 setup. This command allows skipping the Microsoft account and online connection requirements on install. While the command...
The giant financial news site Bloomberg 'has been experimenting with using AI to help produce its journalism,' reports the New York Times. But 'It hasn't always gone smoothly.' While Bloomberg announced on January 15 that it would add three AI-generated bullet points at the...
As Rust approaches its 10th anniversary, 'there is an important piece of documentation missing that many other languages provide,' notes the Rust Foundation. While there's documentation and tutorials — there's no official language specification: In December 2022, an RFC was...
A former Facebook director of global policy recently published 'the book Meta doesn't want you to read,' a scathing takedown of top Meta executives titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. But Wednesday RestofWorld.org published...
The New York Times notes that white-collar workers have faced higher unemployment than other groups in the U.S. over the past few years — along with slower wager growth. Some economists wonder if this trend might be irreversible... and partly attributable to AI: After...
'After a long run, Google is sunsetting two of its signature Nest products,' reports PC World: Google has just announced that it's discontinuing the 10-year-old Nest Protect and the 7-year-old Nest x Yale lock. Both of those products will continue to work, and — for now —...
Cloud providers like the security of running things in virtual machines 'at scale' — even though VMs 'are not known for having fast cold starts or a small footprint...' noted Microsoft's Open Source blog last November. So Microsoft's Azure Core Upstream team built an open...
'Researchers have discovered nearly 1.5 million pictures from specialist dating apps — many of which are explicit — being stored online without password protection,' reports the BBC, 'leaving them vulnerable to hackers and extortionists.' And the images weren't limited to...
Samsung teased its 'AI Vision Inside' refrigerators at January's CES tradeshow. (Its internal sensors can now detect 37 different fresh ingredients and 50 processed foods, generating lists for your cellphone or a screen on your refrigerator's door.) But the refrigerators are ...
'I've been dreaming of this moment for 20 years,' says Aptera co-CEO Steve Fambro. Aptera's solar-powered electric car just drove 300 miles on a single charge. 'We're one step closer to a future where every journey is powered by the sun,' Aptera says in their announcement....
Some scientists believe life on earth originated in organic matter in earth's bodies of water more than 3.5 billion years ago,' reports CNN. 'But where did that organic material come from...?' Maybe electrical energy sparked the beginnings of life on earth — just like in...
Though it's stock price is still up 200% from its IPO in March of 2024 — last week Reddit's stock had dropped nearly 50% since February 7th. And then this week, it dropped another 10%, reports Bloomberg, citing both the phenomenon of 'volatile technology stocks under...
samedi 29 mars 2025, 23:34
Automotive historian Dan Albert loves the 'adorable tiny truck' he's driving. It's one of the small Japan-made 'kei' pickups and minivans that 'make up about a third of car sales in Japan.' Americans can legally import older models for less than $10,000, and getting 40 miles ...
'I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,' a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times: If you entered media or image-making in the '90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design,...
Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, 'after a passenger could not locate their cellphone.' Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew...
In 1999 Slashdot reader Jeremie announced 'a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, etc).' It was the first release of the eXtensible Messaging and Presence...
Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes: No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy of the Earth — and...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Mercury News: After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a group of...
The Washington Post reports that after months of polar darkness, the extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter 'fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week... the smallest maximum extent in the 47-year satellite record, according to the...
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