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lundi 23 décembre 2024, 17:43
Honda sketched plans for a drawn-out deal that amounts to a takeover of Nissan in all but name, as Japan's automakers struggle to keep up in an increasingly competitive global car industry. From a report: The two announced a tentative agreement Monday to set up a joint...
Xerox has agreed to acquire printer maker Lexmark for $1.5 billion, bringing the Kentucky-based company back under U.S. ownership after seven years of Chinese control. The deal, announced Monday, will be financed through cash and debt, creating a vertically integrated...
PayPal-owned browser extension Honey manipulates affiliate marketing systems and withholds discount information from users, according to an investigation by YouTube channel MegaLag. The extension -- which rose in popularity after promising it consumers it would find them the ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: In recent months, Telegram, the lightly moderated social media app, has held discussions with investors who lent it more than $2 billion. The goal: to reassure them that the company remains a viable bet after its founder, Pavel Durov, was ...
Silicon Valley is betting the farm on AI. Data centers are straining power grids. Model training costs are heading toward billions. Yet across the software industry, AI revenue remains theoretical. From a report: Hyperscalers -- combined with Meta and Oracle -- plan to spend ...
Newsweek supplies some context After his arrest, merch — including T-shirts featuring Mangione's booking photos and others taken from his social media accounts — began popping up for sale on several sites. Websites, including Amazon, eBay and Etsy, have moved to take down...
Alphabet's Waymo robotaxis are providing 'hundreds of thousands of driverless rides each month,' reports the Washington Post. But as the robotaxi service expands in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin, some passengers 'have found that traveling by robotaxi can...
Saturday France connected a new nuclear reactor to its grid 'for the first time in a quarter century...' reports Bloomberg, 'adding low-carbon electricity supply at a time when a sputtering economy has made demand sluggish.' The Flamanville-3 reactor — the first such...
'Drones collided, fell from the sky and hit a little boy after 'technical difficulties' during a holiday show...' reports the Orlando Sentinel. They note that a press release from the city said the 8 p.m. show was then cancelled: The company behind the drones, Sky Elements,...
It's not who owns AI training data. The Boston Review asks who owns its output? In a conversation with Microsoft's Copilot, I invited the AI to speculate what kind of thing it might write if it were not confined to answering human prompts. Among its answers was this response ...
dimanche 22 décembre 2024, 22:47
A demonstration 'race' between a (human) F1 race car driver Daniil Kvyat and an autonomous vehicle was just staged by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League. Describing the league and the 'man vs. machine' showdown, Ars Technica writes, 'Say goodbye to the human driver and...
Long-time Slashdot AmiMoJo quotes this report from EcoWatch: Record wind-generated electricity across Northern Ireland and Scotland Tuesday night pushed Britain's power prices below zero. Wind output peaked at a record high 22.4 gigawatts (GW), breaking the previous high set ...
Engadget reports: Apple is developing a smart doorbell and lock system that would use Face ID to unlock the door for known residents, Mark Gurman reports in the Power On newsletter. The face-scanning doorbell would connect to a smart deadbolt, which could include existing...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Health magazine: 'Most people think of aging as occurring gradually, constantly, and linearly,' senior study author Michael Snyder, PhD, a professor of genetics and director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at...
A series of drone sightings over U.S. military bases 'has renewed concerns that the U.S. doesn't have clear government-wide policy for how to deal with unauthorized incursions that could potentially pose a national security threat,' reports CNN: 'We're one year past Langley...
The Associated Press reports that in Albania (population: 2,402,113), 'children comprise the largest group of TikTok users in the country, according to domestic researchers.' But 'Albania's prime minister said Saturday the government will shut down the video service TikTok...
'Sixty-six million years ago, all dinosaurs (except for birds) were wiped from the face of the Earth...' writes Gizmodo. 'What's indisputable about this pivotal moment in Earth's history is that a 6.2 to 9.3-mile-wide (10 to 15-kilometer) asteroid struck what is now...
The Washington Post visits one of over 100 tide-tracking stations around the U.S. — Georgia's Fort Pulaski tide gauge: Since 2010, the sea level at the Fort Pulaski gauge has risen by more than 7 inches, one of the fastest rates in the country, according to a Washington Post...
'From the moment GPT-4 came out in March 2023, OpenAI has been working on GPT-5...' reports the Wall Street Journal. [Alternate URL here.] But 'OpenAI's new artificial-intelligence project is behind schedule and running up huge bills. It isn't clear when — or if — it'll...
The world's first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK's University of Bristol. Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from LiveScience:...
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