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lundi 23 décembre 2024, 06:34
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:...
Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of data.. The outage had...
'More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of perhaps the world's most high-profile alleged killer,' Wired wrote this...
An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News: U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, released Thursday, found...
samedi 21 décembre 2024, 23:02
Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe is also long-time Slashdot reader ReneR — and popped by with a special announcement for the holidays: The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed 'Sky's the Limit!', delivering a massive update for this highly...
'Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth,' writes Gizmodo. And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager's signals on a 1950s-era telescope... The ...
On Thursday New Jersey lawmakers passed a resolution 'calling on the federal government to conduct a 'rigorous and ongoing' investigation into the drone sightings in the state,' reports the Associated Press: Meanwhile, federal and local authorities are warning against...
Nature magazine reports that 'A study that stoked enthusiasm for the now-disproven idea that a cheap malaria drug can treat COVID-19 has been retracted — more than four-and-a-half years after it was published.' Researchers had critiqued the controversial paper many times,...
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