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lundi 30 septembre 2024, 13:34
Newsweek writes that the missing atmosphere of Mars 'may be locked up in the planet's clay-rich surface, a new study by MIT geologists has suggested.' According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' rocks could have triggered a series of chemical...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: In recent years — as longstanding efforts to recycle plastics have faltered — Exxon Mobil has touted advanced recycling as a groundbreaking technology that will turn the tide on the plastic crisis. But...
Scientific American has surprising news about the possibility of black holes the size of an atom but containing the mass of an asteroid — the so-called 'primordial black holes' formed after the birth of the universe which could solve the ongoing mystery of the missing dark...
As the Vice President of the United States travelled in a motorcade Saturday to a San Francisco hotel, they ended up stopped behind 'a Waymo vehicle that had to be driven away from the motorcade route by police,' according to a local newscast (which called it an 'only in San ...
U.S. real estate developers 'are having a hard time keeping up with demand,' reports the Los Angeles Times, 'as businesses in search of secure spots for their servers rent nearly every square foot that becomes available...' Construction of new data centers is at...
dimanche 29 septembre 2024, 23:51
'California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, a high-profile bill that would have regulated the development of AI,' reports TechCrunch. The bill 'would have made companies that develop AI models liable for implementing safety protocols to prevent 'critical harms'.'...
'For the first time, scientists have created a flexible programmable chip that is not made of silicon...' reports IEEE Spectrum — opening new possibilities for implantable devices, on-skin computers, brain-machine interfaces, and soft robotics. U.K.-based Pragmatic...
'SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon 9 rocket,' reports Space.com, 'after the vehicle experienced an issue on the Crew-9 astronaut launch for NASA.' Crew-9 lifted off on Saturday (Sept. 28) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending NASA astronaut Nick ...
Long-time Slashdot reader AsylumWraith writes: Visual Capitalist has posted an article and graph showing that, on average, 67% of US tech workers would be interested in joining a union. The percentage is highest at companies like Intuit, with 94% or respondents indicating...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Look at the top right corner of your phone. You might see an icon with '5G' and another with vertical bars showing the strength of your internet connection. Those symbols don't mean what you think they do. If...
Thursday America's Food and Drug Administration approved Cobenfy, 'the first new drug to treat people with schizophrenia in more than 30 years,' reports ABC News: Most schizophrenia medications, broadly known as antipsychotics, work by changing dopamine levels, a brain...
J. Doyne Farmer is the director of the complexity economics program at the Institute for New Economic Thinking in Oxford's research and policy unit. And he reminds us that solar and wind energy 'are very likely to get even less expensive and grow quickly,' pointing out that...
Uplevel provides insights from coding and collaboration data, according to a recent report from CIO magazine — and recently they measured 'the time to merge code into a repository [and] the number of pull requests merged' for about 800 developers over a three-month period...
California governor Gavin Newsom 'vetoed a bill Saturday that would have required new cars to beep at drivers if they exceed the speed limit,' reports the Associated Press: In explaining his veto, Newsom said federal law already dictates vehicle safety standards and adding...
Bryan Choi, an associate professor of law and computer science focusing on software safety, proposes shifting AI liability onto the builders of the systems: To date, most popular approaches to AI safety and accountability have focused on the technological characteristics and ...
America's National Transportation Safety Board 'is issuing 'urgent safety recommendations' for some Boeing 737s...' reports CNN, 'warning that critical flight controls could jam.' The independent investigative agency is issuing the warning that an actuator attached to the...
Last weekend Boeing announced that its CEO of Defense, Space, and Security 'had left the company,' according to Barrons. 'Parting ways like this, for upper management, is the equivalent to firing,' they write — though they add that setbacks on Starliner's first crewed test...
Long-time Slashdot reader dmitrygr writes: Debian Linux booted on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 — the first microprocessor in the world — the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004...
'After complaining that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with for the best part of two years, bosses are no longer all talk, no action — now they're rapidly firing young workers who aren't up to scratch just months after hiring them,' writes Fortune. 'According to a new...
samedi 28 septembre 2024, 23:07
Past studies have suggested a major ocean current could collapse, quickly changing temperatures and climate patterns, reports the Washington Post. 'But scientists disagree on whether the the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already slowing, and questions ...
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